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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">I am trying to get collectd to report some alarms to vitrage in a devstack setup,</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">I am using a devstack created on a late version of ocata.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">And my devstack with vitrage appears to be working ok otherwise;</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">e.g. I can create VMs, and raise fake alarms using “vitrage event post -type=compute.host.down ...” or with “aodh alarm create ... resource_id=instance-uuid” ... and they get reported fine in
vitrage.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">UNFORTUNATELY not seeing anything in vitrage from collectd, and</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"> don’t believe I’m seeing anything even from collectd, for example from the syslog output plugin.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">I’ve attached the following files: ( not sure if these get distributed on mailing list )</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">/etc/collectd/collectd.conf </span><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:red">ß</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:red"> do
these look ok ?</span></i></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">/etc/vitrage/vitrage.conf </span><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:red">ß</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:red"> do
these look ok ?</span></i></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">/var/log/syslog
... around the time when I updated collectd.conf and vitrage.conf and restarted collectd and vitrage-graph</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:72.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">QUESTIONS </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:108.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:black">§</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">NOTE
THE FOLLOWING ERRORS IN THE SYSLOG FILE ... </span><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:red">where do I get the collectd_conf.yaml file from ? Can’t see it in the devstack files for vitrage.</span></i></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:144.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Aug 23
14:09:31 localhost vitrage-graph[25962]: 2017-08-23 14:09:31.039 25962 ERROR vitrage.utils.file [-] File doesn't exist: /etc/vitrage/collectd_conf.yaml.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:144.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Aug 23
14:09:31 localhost vitrage-graph[25962]: 2017-08-23 14:09:31.040 25962 ERROR vitrage.datasources.collectd.driver [-] failed in init 'NoneType' object has no attribute '__getitem__' : TypeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute '__getitem__'</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:144.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Aug 23
14:09:31 localhost vitrage-graph[25962]: 2017-08-23 14:09:31.040 25962 ERROR vitrage.datasources.collectd.driver Traceback (most recent call last):</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:144.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Aug 23
14:09:31 localhost vitrage-graph[25962]: 2017-08-23 14:09:31.040 25962 ERROR vitrage.datasources.collectd.driver File "/opt/stack/vitrage/vitrage/datasources/collectd/driver.py", line 65, in _configuration_mapping</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:144.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Aug 23
14:09:31 localhost vitrage-graph[25962]: 2017-08-23 14:09:31.040 25962 ERROR vitrage.datasources.collectd.driver collectd_config_elements = collectd_config[COLLECTD_DATASOURCE]</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:144.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Aug 23
14:09:31 localhost vitrage-graph[25962]: 2017-08-23 14:09:31.040 25962 ERROR vitrage.datasources.collectd.driver TypeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute '__getitem__'</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:144.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Aug 23
14:09:31 localhost vitrage-graph[25962]: 2017-08-23 14:09:31.040 25962 ERROR vitrage.datasources.collectd.driver</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:108.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:black">§</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:108.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:red">§</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:red"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">IT
DOESN”T SEEM LIKE collectd is actually getting any events anyways ... </span><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:red">shouldn’t I see some collectd events being reported in /var/log/syslog from some of the monitoring plugins that are loaded ?</span></i></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:144.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">gregs-air:collectd-info
gregwaines$ fgrep "localhost collectd" syslog</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:144.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Aug 23
13:56:07 localhost collectd[23267]: supervised by systemd, will signal readyness</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:144.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Aug 23
13:56:07 localhost collectd[23267]: Initialization complete, entering read-loop.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:144.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Aug 23
13:56:07 localhost collectd[23267]: rrdtool plugin: Adjusting "RandomTimeout" to 0.000 seconds.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:144.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Aug 23
14:09:05 localhost collectd[23267]: Exiting normally.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:144.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Aug 23
14:09:05 localhost collectd[23267]: collectd: Stopping 5 read threads.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:144.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Aug 23
14:09:05 localhost collectd[23267]: rrdtool plugin: Shutting down the queue thread.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:144.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Aug 23
14:09:05 localhost collectd[23267]: collectd: Stopping 5 write threads.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:144.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Aug 23
14:09:07 localhost collectd[25824]: supervised by systemd, will signal readyness</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:144.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Aug 23
14:09:07 localhost collectd[25824]: Initialization complete, entering read-loop.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:144.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Aug 23
14:09:07 localhost collectd[25824]: rrdtool plugin: Adjusting "RandomTimeout" to 0.000 seconds.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:144.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">/etc/vitrage/templates/host_down_scenarios.yaml</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">/etc/vitrage/templates/host_high_cpu_load_scenarios.yaml</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:72.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:red">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:red"> </span><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:red">Am
I suppose to have some templates that are specific to the collectd events/alarms that are being reported to vitrage ?</span></i></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Any other suggestions on things to look at in order to understand what’s wrong ?</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Greg.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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