Have you thought about updating/appending your info to the Wiki? There are a lot of question about distributed setups, and it sounds like this achieves that with Core? -- James Pulver Information Technology Area Supervisor LEPP Computer Group Cornell University
chardy wrote: > Alas, > > I couldn't get the Wiki entry to work. It turned into a hodgepodge of the > wiki instructions, and using the search tool, tcpdump, python hackery, and > extensive debugging turned on to get this all to work. > > Key parts I followed in the Wiki > > 1. Created CNAMES > 2. Opened Ports > 3. zenrender needs to be turned on the remote collector > http://forums.zenoss.com/viewtopic.php?t=7257&highlight=remote+collector+zenrender > > and > > http://forums.zenoss.com/viewtopic.php?t=2218&highlight=remote+collector+zenrender > > Make sure your $ZENHOME/bin/zenoss contains the services you want to run. > Since you are talking to a centralized zenhub it stays off. Right or wrong, > this is what mine looks like > > C="$C zeoctl" > C="$C zopectl" > #C="$C zenhub" > C="$C zenping" > #C="$C zensyslog" > #C="$C zenstatus" > C="$C zenactions" > #C="$C zentrap" > C="$C zenmodeler" > C="$C zenrender" > C="$C zenperfsnmp" > C="$C zencommand" > C="$C zenprocess" > #C="$C zenmail" > > Can't find the link now, but somewhere a bug report was opened up to make > almost all the packages talk to a central zenhub(maybe posted by Chet?). As > you can see, zenping is running as well, and picks up the hosts assigned to > it. > > > 4) Create the performance monitor named after the remote collector. Then > forget everything else and put > http://centralhubhost:8090/remote.collectordomain.com substituting the > correct names in. > > Then forget everything else in step 4. This is based off of > http://forums.zenoss.com/viewtopic.php?t=3672&highlight=8090 and > http://forums.zenoss.com/viewtopic.php?t=7257&highlight=8090 > > ZenOSS uses XML-RPC when you point the renderserver to 8090, and issues a > call to zenrender on the remote collector. The remote collector then reads > the RRD files on it's filesystem, creates the graphic, and ships it back to > the Central Hub. > > Ignore Step 5 > > 6) do this when you edit all the $ZENHOME/etc/*conf files. Make sure you keep > the 8100 in the line. > > 7) You can use this, or what I did above.. > > 8) Didn't have to worry about > > 9) From what I can tell, zenhub is putting events right into the centralhub > > 10) Make sure you change the collectors for the devices you have in the > central hub. They need to have the remote collector as their collector. > > Then you should be sitting in Happy City, with all kinds of performance > metrics being checked. > > Caveat. Zenpacks must live in the same place, since the centralized server > issues the same command globally. > > As always $ZENHOME/log/*.log is your friend and learning zendmd isn't to bad > of an idea eather. If you have a question, or the ZenOSS dudes think I've > posted something wrong here, let me know. > > > > > -------------------- m2f -------------------- > > Read this topic online here: > http://forums.zenoss.com/viewtopic.php?p=27903#27903 > > -------------------- m2f -------------------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > zenoss-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
