Hi,
Decided to install NAV from 'scratch' (i.e. not use the OVA-package). Got NAV running fine, but had some hiccups getting Graphite working as it should. Found no documentation on this what-so-ever (neither on the NAV-pages, or the Graphite-pages), so had to try-and-fail some. Thought I'd share.
- Debian Wheezy (not OVA) - NAV via apt (from https://nav.uninett.no/debian) root@tardis:~# dpkg -s nav|grep Vers Version: 4.0.1-3
1) Fixed /etc/nav/graphite.conf; base=http://localhost:8888/
2) Copied content of '/usr/share/graphite-web/apache2-graphite.conf' into own VHost; <VirtualHost localhost:8888> ( + add NameVirtualHost + Listen in /etc/apache2/ports.conf)
3) Set 'CARBON_CACHE_ENABLED=true' in '/etc/default/graphite-carbon' Set 'ENABLE_UDP_LISTENER = True' in '/etc/carbon/carbon.conf' Set 'SECRET_KEY = <longsecretstring>' in '/etc/graphite/local_settings.py' Set 'TIME_ZONE = '<Gallifrey>' in '/etc/graphite/local_settings.py'
4) cd /usr/share/pyshared/graphite python manage.py syncdb
5) Started carbon-cache (/etc/init.d/carbon-cache start)
6) Started NAV + apache
Should work.
Some of the errors I got along the road; http://files.jocke.no/b/nav-graphite-error.txt.
On 27 Apr 2014, at 16:56, Joachim Tingvold wrote:
- cd /usr/share/pyshared/graphite
python manage.py syncdb
Ah, needed some more things to get Graphite working as it should -- do these before step 5) in my previous email;
cat /etc/nav/graphite/storage-aggregation.conf > /etc/carbon/storage-aggregation.conf cat /etc/nav/graphite/storage-schemas.conf > /etc/carbon/storage-schemas.conf
Oh, also, if you want to start with a 'clean slate', you can do the following;
** WARNING -- WILL REMOVE ALL GRAPHITE + NAV-DATA **
/etc/init.d/nav stop; /etc/init.d/carbon-cache stop; /etc/init.d/apache2 stop rm -rf /var/lib/graphite/whisper/* rm /var/lib/graphite/graphite.db python /usr/share/pyshared/graphite/manage.py syncdb chown _graphite:_graphite /var/lib/graphite/graphite.db chmod o-r /var/lib/graphite/graphite.db su - postgres -c 'psql nav -c "truncate device, vlan, netbios cascade;"' /etc/init.d/carbon-cache start; /etc/init.d/nav start; /etc/init.d/apache2 start
On Sun, 27 Apr 2014 16:56:44 +0200 "Joachim Tingvold" joachim@tingvold.com wrote:
Decided to install NAV from 'scratch' (i.e. not use the OVA-package). Got NAV running fine, but had some hiccups getting Graphite working as it should. Found no documentation on this what-so-ever (neither on the NAV-pages, or the Graphite-pages), so had to try-and-fail some. Thought I'd share.
Thanks for the writeup, Joachim. You couldn't possibly have searched NAVs wiki pages very thoroughly - a quick search for the word "graphite" in the wiki reveals this page as the first search hit:
https://nav.uninett.no/graphite_on_debian
On 29 Apr 2014, at 8:44, Morten Brekkevold wrote:
Thanks for the writeup, Joachim. You couldn't possibly have searched NAVs wiki pages very thoroughly - a quick search for the word "graphite" in the wiki reveals this page as the first search hit: https://nav.uninett.no/graphite_on_debian
Well, you kinda have a split-brain regarding documentation, then. On your main page[1] there's a link called "Documentation"[2]. None of the links on that page have remotely the steps needed to get Graphite running (-:
[1] https://nav.uninett.no [2] https://nav.uninett.no/doc/
On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 08:48:12 +0200 "Joachim Tingvold" joachim@tingvold.com wrote:
On 29 Apr 2014, at 8:44, Morten Brekkevold wrote:
Thanks for the writeup, Joachim. You couldn't possibly have searched NAVs wiki pages very thoroughly - a quick search for the word "graphite" in the wiki reveals this page as the first search hit: https://nav.uninett.no/graphite_on_debian
Well, you kinda have a split-brain regarding documentation, then. On your main page[1] there's a link called "Documentation"[2]. None of the links on that page have remotely the steps needed to get Graphite running (-:
Sorry about that; [2] is NAV's documentation, not Graphite's, which is why the doc explicitly states that Graphite installation is out-of-scope.
Graphite's documentation can be found at http://graphite.wikidit.com. The fact that Graphite's documentation sucks is what made us write the wiki article.
There is still more NAV doc in the wiki, but we are slowly moving and updating everything to [2], so that only "wiki-esque" material remains in the wiki.
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Joachim Tingvold -
Morten Brekkevold