InfluxDB Installation/Collectors

Revision as of 03:56, 3 October 2016

InfluxDB Installation | Collector Scripts

vmstat collector

script

place in /etc/statcollector/statcollector.sh

#!/bin/bash -x

#user defined variables
dbhostname=('dbhost fqdn')
dbport=('8086')
dbtable=('influxdb')
dbuser=('influx')
dbpassword=('influxdb')
logdir=("/var/log/statcollector/")

#define variables
HOSTNAME=$(hostname)
DOMAIN=$(hostname | awk -F "." '/1/ { printf $2"."$3"."$4};')
log=("statcollector-$(date +%F).txt")
DATE=$(date +%F"|"%R:%S)

#function that checks for connectivity to db host and continues if found.
function inet_test {
        #function that extracts values and names from vmstat
        function vmstatvar {
                #set word boundary as a space, read the line and insert each variable into an array.
                #this reads the value names from vmstat
                string=$(vmstat 1 1 -S k | awk 'NR==2')
                IFS=' ' read -r -a vmstatdef <<<$string

                #same as above, but this reads the 10 second average values from vmstat and saves them into an array.
                string2=$(vmstat 10 2 -S k | awk 'NR==4')
                IFS=' ' read -r -a vmstatvalues <<<$string2
        }
        #function that checks for access to log dir and creates log file either in log directory or in /var/tmp/
        function log_dir {
                if ls "$logdir" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
                      if [ -e "$logdir""$log" ] >/dev/null 2>&1; then
                                printf "$DATE"" -- ""$dbhostname"" ""$is"" accessible\n" >> "$logdir""$log"
                        else
                                printf "Start New Log\n""$DATE"" -- ""$dbhostname"" ""$is"" accessible\n" > "$logdir""$log"
                        fi
                elif [ -e "/var/tmp/""$log" ] >/dev/null 2>&1; then
                        printf "$DATE"" -- ""$logdir"" is NOT accessible\n""$DATE"" -- ""$dbhostname"" ""$is"" accessible\n" >> "/var/tmp/""$log"
                else
                        printf "Start New Log\n""$DATE"" -- ""$logdir"" is NOT accessible\n""$DATE"" -- ""$dbhostname"" ""$is"" accessible\n" > "/var/tmp/""$log"
                fi
        }
        #loop that brings everything together and outputs to db via http post
        function influx_post {
                for ((i=0;i<=(${#vmstatvalues[@]}-1);i++))
                do
                        curl -i --max-time 10\
                        -H "Accept: application/json" \
                        -H "Content-Type:application/json" \
                        -X POST "http://""$dbhostname"":""$dbport""/write?db=""$dbtable" -u "$dbuser":"$dbpassword" --data-binary "${vmstatdef[i]}"",host=""$HOSTNAME"",domain=""$DOMAIN"" value=""${vmstatvalues[i]}"

                done
        }
        #portion of code that checks db connectivity and then calls nested functions
        if ping -q -c 1 -W 1 "$dbhostname" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
                is=("is") \
                && log_dir \
                && vmstatvar \
                && influx_post
        else
                is=('is NOT') \
                && log_dir
        fi
}

while true; do
        inet_test
        sleep 5
done

Service

place in /etc/init.d/statcollector

# chkconfig: 2345 90 60

 ## BEGIN INIT INFO
 # Provides: statcollector
 # Required-Start: $remote_fs $syslog
 # Required-Stop: $remote_fs $syslog
 # Default-Start: 3 4 5
 # Default-Stop: 90
 # Short-Description: Start statcollector at boot time
 # Description: Load statcollector at startup to report vmstat values to InfluxDB
 ### END INIT INFO

#startup function
start_stat_collector() {
        printf "Starting Stat Collector ...\n"
        /etc/statcollector/statcollector.sh > /dev/null 2>&1 &
        printf "... started.\n"
}

#stopping function
stop_stat_collector () {
        printf "Stopping Stat Collector ...\n"
        killall -9 statcollector.sh > /dev/null 2>&1 &
        printf "... stopped.\n"
}

#restarting function that stops and starts stat collector
restart_stat_collector () {
        printf "Restarting Stat Collector ..."
        stop_stat_collector
        start_stat_collector
}

#status determination
status_stat_collector () {
        if [ $(ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep 'statcollector.sh' | wc -l) = 1 ]; then
                printf "Stat Collector is running.\n"
        else
                printf "Stat Collector is not running.\n"
        fi
}

case "$1" in
        start)
                start_stat_collector
                ;;
        stop)
                stop_stat_collector
                ;;
        restart)
                restart_stat_collector
                ;;
        status)
                status_stat_collector
                ;;
        *)
                printf "Usage: /etc/init.d/statcollector {start|stop|restart|status}\n"
                exit 1
                ;;

esac
exit 0


# sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/statcollector
# sudo chkconfig --add /etc/init.d/statcollector