Configuring Ganglia services

Introduction

This page describes how Alexis Huxley installed and configured Ganglia.

Procedure

  1. Set some environment variables used by this procedure: 
    DNSCLIENT_DOMAIN=<name-of-dns-domain>     # e.g. DNSCLIENT_DOMAIN=pasta.net
GANGLIACLIENT_SERVER=$(uname -n)
  2. Run: 
    apt-get install ganglia-webfrontend
perl -pi -e "s/^data_source.*/data_source \"$DNSCLIENT_DOMAIN\" $GANGLIACLIENT_SERVER/" \
    /etc/ganglia/gmetad.conf
perl -0777 -pi -e 's/^udp_recv_channel.*?}/udp_recv_channel {\n  port = 8649\n}/ms' \
    /etc/ganglia/gmond.conf
#  The postinstall script for ganglia-webfrontend can do the next two lines,
#  but by default, and when run non-interactively the defaults are used, it does not.
[ ! -h /etc/apache2/conf.d/ganglia-webfrontend ] || \
    rm -f /etc/apache2/conf.d/ganglia-webfrontend
ln -s /etc/ganglia-webfrontend/apache.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d/ganglia-webfrontend
service apache2 restart
service gmetad restart
service ganglia-monitor restart
  3. If proxied access from a main webserver is required, then see Configuring web services.

See also