Monitoring XenServer

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Prerequisition

Refers tohttps://github.com/crashdump/collectd-xenserver

• Collected 4.9 or later
• Python2.4 Or Later
• sudo pip install XenAPI
• sudo pip install collectd

Configuration

Make a directory under /etc/collectd folder, and copy the collectd-xenserver.py into this folder:

$ sudo mkdir -p  /var/collectd/plugins
$ sudo cp YourDictory/collectd-xenserver.py /var/collectd/plugins/collectd_xenserver.py

Now edit the configuration file of /etc/collectd/collectd.conf:

<LoadPlugin python>
	Globals true
</LoadPlugin>

<Plugin python>
	ModulePath "/etc/collectd/plugins/"
	#LogTraces true
	#Interactive true
	Import "collectd_xenserver"
        <Module "collectd_xenserver">
              <Host "192.168.10.187">
                    User "root"
                    Password "xxxxx"
              </Host>
        </Module>

</Plugin>

Now restart the collectd, you will find the data-set has been collectd and send into the graphite server.

$ sudo service collectd restart