VMware tc Server Integration

VMware tc Server

VMware tc Server is a Web application server based on open-source Apache Tomcat. It preserves the best of Tomcat and adds many mission-critical operational capabilities that are unavailable in the open-source product.

In addition to setting up the metrics flow, this integration also installs a dashboard.

VMware tc Server Setup

Step 1. Install VMware tc Server and configure a runtime instance.

For details on VMware tc Server installation and runtime instance configuration, see Getting Started with VMware tc Server.

To list existing tc server instances and their details, run tcserver list.

Step 2. Add the Tanzu Observability by Wavefront template to VMware tc Server.

There are two methods to install the template.

  1. By using the tc Server Template repository.

    Run tcserver get-template tanzu-observability

  2. Through the Tanzu Network.

   You can install the template into VMware tc Server by downloading it from the Tanzu Network and then installing it in the tc Server templates directory.

   Run tcserver get-template tanzu-observability-template.zip

   Use the location of the downloaded .zip file from Tanzu Network.

Step 3. Apply a Tanzu Observability by Wavefront URL to the VMware tc Server instance.

The template requires the following properties to be set:

tanzu-observability.url - This is the URL either to a Wavefront proxy or to the Wavefront instance.
tanzu-observability.token - This is the token used to authenticate to the Wavefront instance. If you use a Wavefront proxy, the token is not required.

If you do not have a Wavefront proxy installed on your network, install a proxy.

There are two ways to ingest tc server metrics to wavefront.

  1. Use WAVEFRONT_PROXY_ADDRESS to ingest tc Server data into Wavefront.

  Run tcserver apply-template INSTANCE_NAME -t tanzu-observability -p tanzu-observability.url=http://WAVEFRONT_PROXY_ADDRESS:2878

  2. Directly ingest tc Server metrics into the Wavefront server.

  Run tcserver apply-template INSTANCE_NAME -t tanzu-observability -p tanzu-observability.url=https://YOUR_CLUSTER.wavefront.com -p tanzu-observability.token=YOUR_API_TOKEN

For details about the available properties, see tc Server Tanzu Observability by Wavefront Listener Template

Step 4. Restart the tc server instance

Run tcserver restart INSTANCE_NAME.

Metrics