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install_collectd

A puppet module that just installs collectd from SignalFx repositories
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Version information

  • 0.1.11 (latest)
  • 0.1.10
  • 0.1.9
  • 0.1.8
  • 0.1.7
  • 0.1.6
  • 0.1.5
  • 0.1.4
  • 0.1.3
  • 0.1.2
  • 0.1.1
  • 0.1.0
released Sep 9th 2015
This version is compatible with:
  • Puppet Enterprise >= 3.2.0
  • Puppet >= 3.2.0
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  • Bolt
  • Manual installation
  • Direct download

Add this module to your Puppetfile:

mod 'udaysagar2177-install_collectd', '0.1.11'
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Add this module to your Bolt project:

bolt module add udaysagar2177-install_collectd
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Manually install this module globally with Puppet module tool:

puppet module install udaysagar2177-install_collectd --version 0.1.11

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Documentation

udaysagar2177/install_collectd — version 0.1.11 Sep 9th 2015

puppet_install_collectd

Table of Contents

  1. Overview
  2. Module Description - What the module does and why it is useful
  3. Setup - The basics of getting started with install_collectd
  4. Usage - Configuration options and additional functionality
  5. Limitations - OS compatibility, etc.

Overview

The install_collectd module installs collectd from SignalFx repositories on your system and keeps it up-to-date.

Module Description

Collectd is a system statistics collection daemon. This module pulls the debian and rpm packages of collectd from SignalFx repositories and installs them on your system. The debian packages are pulled from signalfx/collectd-release ppa and the rpm packages are pulled from Amazon s3 bucket.

Once you have installed this module, you may proceed to install configure_collectd_plugins and send_collectd_metrics puppet modules from SignalFx to configure interesting plugins and send metrics to SignalFx.

Setup

Install the latest release of install_collectd module from SignalFx using:

puppet module install signalfx/install_collectd

What install_collectd affects

The install_collectd module installs only the latest version of collectd on your system. It does not configure any plugins. check configure_collectd_plugins and send_collectd_metrics puppet modules for further functionalities.

Usage

The install_collectd module does not have any parameters. Including this module is as simple as:

node default {
  include 'install_collectd'
}

Limitations

Currently, the supported operating systems are

  1. Ubuntu 12.04
  2. Ubuntu 14.04
  3. Ubuntu 15.04
  4. CentOS 5
  5. CentOS 6
  6. CentOS 7
  7. Amazon Linux 2014.09
  8. Amazon Linux 2015.03.