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Munin plugins for Zope/Plone.

Project description

THIS PACKAGE IS DEPRECIATED. PLEASE USE munin.zope INSTEAD!

Introduction

This package provides munin plugins for monitoring various aspects of a Zope instance.

It uses gocept.munin for plugin registration. Please refer to its documentation if you want to write new plugins.

Bits of the code is based on plugins found at munin exchange (many thanks to Gaute Amundsen and Arthur Lutz).

Plugins

Currently there are 4 plugins available:

  • “zopethreads” - reports free Zope threads

  • “zopecache” - reports database cache parameters

  • “zodbactivity” - reports ZODB activity

  • “zopememory” - reports Zope memory usage (only works on Linux)

How to use it

  • First include the package in your buildout instance slot:

    [instance]
    ...
    eggs =
        ...
        redturtle.munin
    zcml =
        ...
        redturtle.munin
  • To create the pluging helper script you’ll also need to include the following, additional section and extend your parts definition:

    [buildout]
    parts =
        ...
        munin
    
    [munin]
    recipe = zc.recipe.egg
    eggs = redturtle.munin
    arguments = http_address='${instance:http-address}', user='${instance:user}'

    The arguments option is used to pass configuration values to the generated helper script, which is then used as the actual munin plugin (see below). Any settings for ip-address, http-address, port-base and user given in the instance section should be repeated here, separated by commas.

    Please be aware, that the variable names use underscores instead of dashes here — the following list shows all supported settings and their respective default values:

    • ip_address=’<ip-address>’ [‘localhost’]

    • http_address=<http-address> [8080]

    • port_base=<port-base> [0]

    • user=<user-credentials> [n.a.]

    Either literal values or references to the instance part can be used here, i.e. “http_address=’${instance:http-address}’, user=’${instance:user}’”. Please note that the resulting line will be verbosely copied into the generated bin/munin script, so the extra quoting is required.

  • When monitoring more than one Zope instance, i.e. in a ZEO setup, separate helper scripts need to be generated. In order to do so the scripts option of zc.recipe.egg can be used like so:

    [buildout]
    parts =
        ...
        munin1
        munin2
    
    [munin1]
    recipe = zc.recipe.egg
    eggs = redturtle.munin
    scripts = munin=munin1
    arguments = http_address='${instance1:http-address}', user='${instance1:user}'
    
    [munin2]
    recipe = zc.recipe.egg
    eggs = redturtle.munin
    scripts = munin=munin2
    arguments = http_address='${instance2:http-address}', user='${instance2:user}'

    The necessary symlinks can then be created with each of the scripts in turn (see below). Please note, that in this case you should explicitly provide at least a differing prefix argument.

  • Now you should be able to call the plugins as follow:

    http://localhost:8080/@@redturtle.munin.plugins/zopethreads

    Where zopethreads is you plugin name. Please note that for security reasons the view requires the View management screens permission.

  • Next you need to make symlinks from the helper script inside your buildout’s bin/ to the munin plugin directory. The helper script itself can assist you with this:

    $ bin/munin install /opt/munin/etc/plugins [<prefix>] [<suffix>]

    This will install the necessary symlinks in the given directory using either the provided prefix and suffix or else the hostname and current directory to assemble their names (see below).

    Alternatively, you may also install the desired symlinks yourself:

    $ cd /opt/munin/etc/plugins
    $ ln -s ~/zope/bin/munin company_zodbactivity_site1

    Here /opt/munin/etc/plugins is your munin directory, ~/zope/ is the root directory of your buildout, zodb_activity the name of the plugin you want to enable, company a placeholder for an arbitrary prefix and site1 the name which will be shown in munin.

  • Finally configure the plugin in munin (this step can be skipped if you have correctly set up the arguments option as described in step 2 above):

    $ cd /opt/munin/etc/plugin-conf.d/
    $ vi redturtle.conf
    ... [company_*_site1]
    ... env.AUTH myuser:myuser
    ... env.URL http://localhost:8080/@@redturtle.munin.plugins/%s

    Here myuser:myuser are your Zope user credentials and localhost:8080 your site url. Please check munin for more information about plugin configuration.

References

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Changelog

1.0a2 - 2009/07/27

  • Fix dimension for memory usage plugin. [witsch]

  • Add info about monitoring more than one instance, e.g. a ZEO setup. [witsch]

  • Allow overriding the default prefix/suffix when setting up plugin links. [witsch]

1.0a1 - 2009/07/17

  • Add script option to automatically setup symlinks for all available plugins in the munin plugin directory. [witsch]

  • Add plugin to track zope’s memory usage (only available on Linux). [witsch]

  • Add logging of slow plugin execution as a safety net. [witsch]

  • Allow setting of necessary configuration values directly in buildout. [witsch]

  • Refactor and try to simplify things. [witsch]

0.0.3 - 2009/03/30

  • Add documentation. [amleczko]

  • Refactor plugin registration. [amleczko]

0.0.2 - 2009/03/26

  • Small refactoring. [amleczko]

0.0.1 - 2009/03/24

  • Initial release. [amleczko]

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