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Re: question about monasca-agent installation

 

If i want to install Monasca to my test environment, except from UI part,
will i use and install all cookbooks listed here
https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=ansible-monasca to another node
as a monitoring node?

On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 4:38 PM, Bryant, Craig W (HP Cloud Service) <
craig.bryant@xxxxxx> wrote:

> 60 seconds is currently the minimum period.
>
> Craig Bryant
> HPCloud Monasca
> From: Oğuz Yarımtepe <oguzyarimtepe@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Friday, August 21, 2015 at 7:25 AM
> To: Microsoft Office User <craig.bryant@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Tim Kuhlman <tim.kuhlman@xxxxxx>, "monasca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <
> monasca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Subject: Re: [Monasca] question about monasca-agent installation
>
> Hi,
>
> I removed the times part and it worked as expected. Is there a possibility
> to lower the default 60 seconds evaluation period?
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Bryant, Craig W (HP Cloud Service) <
> craig.bryant@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> The alarm expression “ avg(cpu.user_perc) > 5 times 2” requires that the
>> threshold value be exceeded for at least two minutes before the alarm goes
>> to the ALARM state. The default period is 60 seconds and the “times 2”
>> means two 60 second periods. How long does it take for it to change? It
>> should be between two and three minutes given that expression.
>>
>> Craig Bryant
>> HPCloud Monasca
>>
>> From: Oğuz Yarımtepe <oguzyarimtepe@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: Friday, August 21, 2015 at 6:27 AM
>> To: Tim Kuhlman <tim.kuhlman@xxxxxx>
>> Cc: "monasca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <monasca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: Re: [Monasca] question about monasca-agent installation
>>
>> I followed the pip method and set the monasca agent manually at one of my
>> vms and used the monasca docker instance  also for keystone url and monasca
>> api url.
>> I also created an alarm: avg(cpu.user_perc) > 5 times 2
>>
>> I run the below command to create a
>> cpu load stress --cpu 2 --timeout 600
>>
>> I can see the alarms are created but there is a latency. Takes some
>> minutes to see the alarm. How can i make it more real time or am i missing
>> something?
>>
>> I checked the times of the two machines and they are same at tha docker
>> side and at my vm.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 6:36 PM, Kuhlman, Tim <tim.kuhlman@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> You have some options on how you install the agent. You can certainly
>>> install with just pip install the Ansible role actually does this but in
>>> addition runs monasca-setup for you. Using pip is discussed on this page,
>>> https://github.com/stackforge/monasca-agent/blob/master/docs/Agent.md#installing
>>>
>>> The Ansible role can make things even easier in particular if you have
>>> Ansible installed. The playbook you call this from can be quite simple,
>>> here is one I use:
>>>
>>> - *name*: Installs the Monasca Agent
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>   *hosts*: monasca
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>   *sudo*: yes
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>   *vars*:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     *monasca_agent_check_frequency*:15
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>   *roles*:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     - {*role*: monasca-agent, *tags*:[agent]}
>>>
>>> The key thing to be aware of is that the requirements for the role which
>>> are all listed in the README.md at
>>> https://github.com/hpcloud-mon/ansible-monasca-agent
>>> In the above example those requirements are defined in the group_vars.
>>> --
>>> Tim Kuhlman
>>> Monitoring
>>> HPCloud
>>>
>>> From: Monasca <monasca-bounces+tim.kuhlman=hp.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> on behalf of Oğuz Yarımtepe <oguzyarimtepe@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> Date: Thursday, August 20, 2015 at 8:07 AM
>>> To: "monasca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <monasca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Subject: [Monasca] question about monasca-agent installation
>>>
>>>
>>> What is the right way to install monasca-agent? Using
>>> https://github.com/hpcloud-mon/ansible-monasca-agent or pip install?
>>>
>>> How will the ansible cookbook be used? There is no main.yml to run the
>>> cookbook. Anyone can give me an example?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Oğuz Yarımtepe
>>> http://about.me/oguzy
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Oğuz Yarımtepe
>> http://about.me/oguzy
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Oğuz Yarımtepe
> http://about.me/oguzy
>
>


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