Installation

Prior to installing the LMA Collector Plugin, you may want to install the backend services the Collector depends on. These backend services include:

  • Elasticsearch
  • InfluxDB
  • Nagios

There are two options:

  1. Install these backend services automatically using the Fuel Plugins listed below.
  1. Install these backend services manually outside of your OpenStack environment. This installation must comply with the LMA Collector Plugin’s requirements.

LMA Collector Fuel Plugin installation using the RPM file of the Fuel Plugins Catalog

To install the LMA Collector Fuel Plugin using the RPM file of the Fuel Plugins Catalog, follow these steps:

  1. Download the RPM file from the Fuel Plugins Catalog.

  2. Copy the RPM file to the Fuel Master node:

    [root@home ~]# scp lma_collector-0.9-0.9.0-1.noarch.rpm \
    root@<Fuel Master node IP address>:
    
  3. Install the plugin using the Fuel CLI:

    [root@fuel ~]# fuel plugins --install lma_collector-0.9-0.9.0-1.noarch.rpm
    
  4. Verify that the plugin is installed correctly:

    [root@fuel ~]# fuel plugins --list
    id | name                 | version | package_version
    ---|----------------------|---------|----------------
    1  | lma_collector        | 0.9.0   | 4.0.0
    

LMA Collector Fuel Plugin installation from source

Alternatively, you may want to build the RPM file of the plugin from source if, for example, you want to test the latest features, modify some built-in configuration or implement your own customization. But note that running a Fuel plugin that you have built yourself is at your own risk.

To install LMA Collector Plugin from source, you first need to prepare an environement to build the RPM file. The recommended approach is to build the RPM file directly onto the Fuel Master node so that you won’t have to copy that file later on.

Prepare an environment to build the plugin on the Fuel Master Node

  1. Install the standard Linux development tools:

    [root@home ~] yum install createrepo rpm rpm-build dpkg-devel
    
  2. Install the Fuel Plugin Builder. To do that, you should first get pip:

    [root@home ~] easy_install pip
    
  3. Then install the Fuel Plugin Builder (the fpb command line) with pip:

    [root@home ~] pip install fuel-plugin-builder
    

Note: You may also need to build the Fuel Plugin Builder if the package version of the plugin is higher than the package version supported by the Fuel Plugin Builder you get from pypi. In this case, please refer to the section “Preparing an environment for plugin development” of the Fuel Plugins wiki if you need further instructions about how to build the Fuel Plugin Builder.

  1. Clone the plugin git repository:

    [root@home ~] git clone https://github.com/openstack/fuel-plugin-lma-collector.git
    
  2. Check that the plugin is valid:

    [root@home ~] fpb --check ./fuel-plugin-lma-collector
    
  3. And finally, build the plugin:

    [root@home ~] fpb --build ./fuel-plugin-lma-collector
    
  4. Now that you have created the RPM file, you can install the plugin using the fuel plugins –install command:

    [root@fuel ~] fuel plugins --install ./fuel-plugin-lma-collector/*.noarch.rpm