Collectd Resource Monitoring

Client Configuration

Step 1. Install collectd.

apt-get install collectd

Step 2. Create the collectd.conf configuration file

echo 'FQDNLookup true
Interval 60
LoadPlugin syslog
<Plugin syslog>
    LogLevel info
</Plugin>
LoadPlugin battery
LoadPlugin cpu
LoadPlugin df
LoadPlugin disk
LoadPlugin entropy
LoadPlugin interface
LoadPlugin irq
LoadPlugin load
LoadPlugin memory
LoadPlugin network
LoadPlugin processes
LoadPlugin swap
LoadPlugin users
<Plugin "network">
    Server "collectd.cscf.uwaterloo.ca"
</Plugin>

Include "/etc/collectd/filters.conf" Include "/etc/collectd/thresholds.conf"
' > /etc/collectd/collectd.conf

Step 3. Restart collectd

/etc/init.d/collectd restart

Step 4. There is no Step 4.

Server Configuration

Step 1. Install collectd

apt-get install collectd

Step 2. Copy configuration file

echo 'FQDNLookup true
Interval 60

#Log to syslog
LoadPlugin syslog
<Plugin syslog>
   LogLevel info
</Plugin>

LoadPlugin cpu
LoadPlugin df
LoadPlugin disk
LoadPlugin entropy
LoadPlugin interface
LoadPlugin irq
LoadPlugin load
LoadPlugin memory
LoadPlugin processes
LoadPlugin users

#For Server
LoadPlugin network
<Plugin "network">
  Listen "10.15.152.3"
  Server "172.19.4.230"
  Forward true
  MaxPacketSize 65535
</Plugin>

LoadPlugin rrdtool

<Plugin "rrdtool">
  CacheTimeout 0
  WritesPerSecond 640
</Plugin>

Include "/etc/collectd/filters.conf"
Include "/etc/collectd/thresholds.conf" ' > /etc/collectd/collectd.conf

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