wiki:PlasticSlices/MonitoringRecommendations/FlowvisorConfiguration

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How to configure Plastic Slices monitoring on an OpenFlow FlowVisor

Introduction

This page explains how to configure an OpenFlow FlowVisor node for the Plastic Slices central monitoring configuration. This page was written for

plastic-slices-monitor-flowvisor-0.8

and may not work well with earlier versions. We have tested the FlowVisor utilities on Ubuntu 10.04 only. If you are running a different OS and it is not obvious how to translate the instructions, please contact GPO infra.

Upgrading from version 0.7

If you are currently running plastic-slices-monitor-flowvisor-0.7, you need only do the following steps of this upgrade:

If you are installing plastic-slices-monitor-flowvisor for the first time or upgrading from an earlier version, read all sections to see which steps you need to take.

Variables

  • <cronuser>: The user as which to run the FV monitoring. The scripts can run as root, or as a non-root user of your choice. (At GPO, we use the ganglia user.)
  • <site>: a one-word phrase describing your site, probably the name of your university or lab (e.g. stanford, gpolab). Use the same value for all hosts your site is monitoring.
  • <fqdn>: The fully-qualified domain name as which your FV should report data. IF this is not the same as the output of uname -n on your node, pay attention to section IV below.

Steps to configure FlowVisor monitoring

I. Prepare to submit authenticated monitoring data to GMOC

You need to do these steps if you are installing monitoring for the first time, or if you are upgrading from version 0.5 or previous.

  1. Register site credentials: IF you have not yet registered your site to submit data to GMOC, follow the instructions at GENIMetaOps/SiteCredentials. All site resources use the same credential; you only need to do this step once for your entire site. Note: the password you use for your site registration is a new password generated for the purpose of submitting monitoring data. Do not reuse any existing passwords from your site.
  1. Store your site password in a file which FlowVisor monitoring can use:
    sudo touch /usr/local/etc/monitoring_passwd
    sudo chown <cronuser> /usr/local/etc/monitoring_passwd
    sudo chmod 600 /usr/local/etc/monitoring_passwd
    sudo vi /usr/local/etc/monitoring_passwd
    
    Add exactly one line to this file, containing the site monitoring password you registered with GMOC.

II. Install the monitoring software

Do all of these steps every time you install or upgrade the monitoring software.

  1. Download the plastic-slices-monitor-flowvisor-0.8.tar.gz tarball from http://software.geni.net/local-sw/, and copy it onto your FV host, e.g. into ~/plastic-slices-monitor-flowvisor-0.8.tar.gz.
  1. Download the GMOC measurement_sender.pl script from http://gmoc-db.grnoc.iu.edu/sources/measurement_api/measurement_sender.pl, and copy it onto your FV host, e.g. into ~/measurement_sender.pl
  1. Unpack the tarball in ~, and copy the files into place:
    cd ~
    tar xvzf ~/plastic-slices-monitor-flowvisor-0.8.tar.gz
    cd plastic-slices-monitor-flowvisor-0.8
    sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/{bin,lib}
    sudo cp bin/{build_gmoc_conf,metric_flowvisor,report_data_to_gmoc} /usr/local/bin
    sudo cp lib/{flowvisor_metrics.py,rrd_metric.py} /usr/local/lib
    sudo chmod 555 /usr/local/bin/{build_gmoc_conf,metric_flowvisor,report_data_to_gmoc}
    sudo chmod 444 /usr/local/lib/{flowvisor_metrics.py,rrd_metric.py}
    
  1. Copy measurement_sender into place:
    sudo cp ~/measurement_sender.pl /usr/local/bin/measurement_sender
    sudo chmod 555 /usr/local/bin/measurement_sender
    

III. Install software dependencies

When installing or upgrading, make sure you have all current software dependencies installed on the system:

sudo apt-get install python-rrdtool librrds-perl libfile-find-rule-perl libwww-perl libxml-writer-perl libcrypt-ssleay-perl

The monitoring scripts use these packages to:

  • Manage RRD files
  • Write the XML-based API format for the GMOC database
  • Send the formatted data to GMOC via HTTPS

IV. Create required directories and files

These steps only need to be done the first time you install the monitoring software.

  1. Create required directories:
    sudo mkdir -p /var/cache/fvmetrics/monitoring
    sudo chown <cronuser> /var/cache/fvmetrics/monitoring
    
    sudo mkdir -p /var/spool/rrds/$(uname -n) 
    sudo mkdir -p /var/spool/rrds/REPORT
    sudo chown -R <cronuser> /var/spool/rrds
    
  1. IF uname -n does not report your node's FQDN for whatever reason, create a symlink so that reporting and reading scripts can find your RRD files:
    cd /var/spool/rrds
    sudo ln -s $(uname -n) <fqdn>
    
  1. The metric_flowvisor script requires a flowvisor password file, which it expects to find in:
    FVPASSWD_FILE = '/etc/flowvisor/fvpasswd'
    
    This file should contain the password for the flowvisor root slice. (This is the password you use with command-line tools such as fvctl or fvconfig to configure a flowvisor, or which you entered in the "Setup FlowVisor" dialog in the Expedient OIM when you setup your flowvisor.)

V. Test the script

Run the monitoring and submission scripts by hand to make sure they work.

  1. Check the time on your flowvisor host, and make sure it is accurate. The timeseries data reporting format relies on clock accuracy, so your nodes must be running ntpd (or ntpdate regularly out of cron) in order for monitoring to work.
  1. Run the metric gathering script by hand to make sure it works:
    sudo -u <cronuser> /usr/local/bin/metric_flowvisor
    
    • This should produce no output
    • After this runs, a number of RRD files should be created in /var/spool/rrds/$(uname -n)
  1. Run the data reporting script by hand to make sure it works:
    sudo -u <cronuser> /usr/local/bin/report_data_to_gmoc <site> <fqdn>
    

VI. Install the scripts to run from cron

This only needs to be done the first time you install the monitoring software.

Add the two scripts to cron: modify the <cronuser> crontab:

sudo -u <cronuser> crontab -e

and add the new lines:

*/1 * * * * /usr/local/bin/metric_flowvisor
*/5 * * * * /usr/local/bin/report_data_to_gmoc <site> <fqdn>