NetBSD Host Integration

NetBSD Host Integration

NetBSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system. Monitoring NetBSD hosts is easy with Wavefront. This integration steps you through installing and configuring the Wavefront proxy and Collectd. Collectd is a Unix daemon capable of collecting, processing, aggregating, and sending metrics to a Wavefront proxy in Graphite data format.

In addition to setting up the metrics flow, this integration also installs a dashboard. Here are the Summary and CPU sections of a dashboard displaying NetBSD host metrics.

NetBSD Host Setup

Step 1: Install and Configure the Wavefront Proxy Manually

1. Download the Java package from a package source suitable for your NetBSD OS version.
2. Run the command pkg_add -fD openjdk8*.tgz to install the Java package.
3. Append the Java path to the PATH environment variable.
4. Download the Wavefront proxy jar and Wavefront config file.
5. Open the wavefront.conf file for edit, add the following proxy properties, and save the file:

   server = https://YOUR_CLUSTER.wavefront.com/api/
   token = YOUR_API_TOKEN
   hostname = HOSTNAME
   graphitePorts = 2003
   graphiteFormat = 2
   graphiteDelimiters = _
   

   Here, hostname represents the machine on which the proxy is running. The name can have alphanumeric characters and periods, and must be unique. Wavefront does not use the hostname to tag your data but uses it to tag data internal to the proxy, such as JVM statistics, per-proxy point rates, and so on.

6. Start the Wavefront proxy service:

   sudo java -cp ./proxy-4.26-uber.jar \
   -Xss2049k -XX:OnOutOfMemoryError="kill -1 %p" \
   -debug com.wavefront.agent.PushAgent -f ./wavefront.conf &
   

7. On the Proxies page, verify that the proxy has registered with the Wavefront server.

Step 2: Install and Configure the Collectd Daemon Manually

1. Download the Collectd package from a package source suitable for your NetBSD OS version.
2. Run the command pkg_add -fD collectd*.tgz to install the Collectd package.
3. Open the /usr/pkg/etc/collectd.conf file for edit, add the following information and save the file.

   # Global settings for the daemon.
   Hostname    "NETBSD_HOSTNAME"
   FQDNLookup   true
   BaseDir     "/var/db/collectd"
   PIDFile     "/var/run/collectd.pid"
   PluginDir   "/usr/pkg/lib/collectd"
   TypesDB     "/usr/pkg/share/collectd/types.db"
   
   # When enabled, plugins are loaded automatically with the default options.
   AutoLoadPlugin true
   
   # Enable logging
   <Plugin logfile>
        LogLevel info
        File "/var/log/collectd.log"
        Timestamp true
        PrintSeverity false
   </Plugin>
   
   # Enable cpu input plugin
   <Plugin cpu>
       ReportByCpu true
       ReportByState true
       ValuesPercentage true
       ReportNumCpu true
   </Plugin>
   
   # Enable df input plugin
   <Plugin df>
       MountPoint "/"
       ReportByDevice true
       ReportInodes true
       ValuesAbsolute true
       ValuesPercentage true
   </Plugin>
   
   # Enable disk input plugin
   <Plugin disk>
   </Plugin>
   
   # Enable interface input plugin
   <Plugin interface>
   </Plugin>
   
   # Enable load input plugin
   <Plugin load>
       ReportRelative true
   </Plugin>
   
   # Enable memory input plugin
   <Plugin memory>
       ValuesAbsolute true
       ValuesPercentage true
   </Plugin>
   
   # Enable processes input plugin
   <Plugin processes>
       CollectContextSwitch true
   </Plugin>
   
   # Enable swap input plugin
   <Plugin swap>
       ValuesAbsolute true
       ValuesPercentage true
   </Plugin>
   
   # Enable uptime input plugin
   <Plugin uptime>
   </Plugin>
   
   # Enable users input plugin
   <Plugin users>
   </Plugin>
   
   # Enable graphite output plugin
   <Plugin write_graphite>
      <Node "NETBSD_HOSTNAME">
          Host "WAVEFRONT_PROXY_ADDRESS"
          Port "2003"
          Protocol "tcp"
          ReconnectInterval 10
          LogSendErrors true
          Prefix "netbsd."
          StoreRates false
          AlwaysAppendDS false
          EscapeCharacter "_"
          SeparateInstances true
      </Node>
   </Plugin>
   

4. Start the Collectd daemon by running the following command: /usr/pkg/sbin/collectd -C /usr/pkg/etc/collectd.conf