rsnapshot_diamond_collector

Overview

This collector will inspect a directory containing rsnapshot logs and post the last know runtime duration by taking the differnce in time from when a host started a rsnapshot job via echo pid > /var/run/rsnap_name.pid and the completion of that same job by finding rm -f /var/run/rsnap_name.pid that follows. All start times that don't have a corresponding stop time are thrown out as we assume the server had a failure mid rsnap job.

How to install

Puppet implementation

• install garethr/garethr-diamond module

  # mod for managing diamond
    mod 'garethr-diamond',
      :git    => 'https://github.com/fasrc/garethr-diamond.git',
  

• configuration in yaml format:

  profiles::diamond::collectors:
    'RsnapshotRuntimeCollector':
      options:
        path_prefix: "diamond.%{::datacenter}"
        rsnap_log_home: "/var/log/rsnapshot"
  profiles::diamond::collector_installs:
    'rsnapshot_diamond_collector':
      repo_url: 'https://github.com/fasrc/rsnapshot_diamond_collector.git'
      repo_revision: 'master'
  

#### Manual install

* installing diamond
 * Read the [documentation](http://diamond.readthedocs.org)
 * Install via `pip install diamond`.
   The releases on GitHub are not recommended for use.
   Use `pypi-install diamond` on Debian/Ubuntu systems with python-stdeb installed to build packages.
 * Copy the `diamond.conf.example` file to `diamond.conf`.
 * Optional: Run `diamond-setup` to help set collectors in `diamond.conf`.
 * Modify `diamond.conf` for your needs.
 * Run diamond with one of: `diamond` or `initctl start diamond` or `/etc/init.d/diamond restart`.

* Add the following lines to the daimond collectors config area:

 CentOS => /etc/diamond/collectors/RsnapshotRuntimeCollector.conf
 ```enabled=True
 path_prefix = <prefix_path>
 rsnap_log_home = </var/log/rsnapshot> 

• Add the script to diamond collectors repository section:

CentOS => /usr/share/diamond/collectors/rsnapshotruntimecollector/rsnapshotruntimecollector.py