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. Before following these instructions, please ask GPO infra for a copy of the tarball

plastic-slices-monitor-flowvisor-0.2.tar.gz

which is the latest version of the monitoring utilities for a FlowVisor. 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.

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 step 5 below.

Steps

  1. Copy the tarball over to your FV host, e.g. into ~/plastic-slices-monitor-flowvisor-0.2.tar.gz.
  1. Unpack the tarball in /:
    cd /
    sudo tar xvzf ~/plastic-slices-monitor-flowvisor-0.2.tar.gz
    
    This should create the following files:
    /usr/local/bin/build_gmoc_conf
    /usr/local/bin/measurement_sender
    /usr/local/bin/metric_flowvisor
    /usr/local/bin/report_data_to_gmoc
    /usr/local/lib/flowvisor_metrics.py
    /usr/local/lib/rrd_metric.py
    
  1. Install required packages:
    sudo apt-get install python-rrdtool librrds-perl libfile-find-rule-perl libwww-perl libxml-writer-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 HTTP

  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'
    
    Either create a file in this location containing only the flowvisor root password, or create a file in a different location containing the password, and modify /usr/local/bin/metric_flowvisor to set the correct value for FVPASSWD_FILE.
  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>
    
  1. 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>