tas50 / chef-graphite_powershell_functions

Chef cookbook to install the graphite_powershell_functions script for perfmon counter polling into Graphite

graphite_powershell_functions Cookbook

A cookbook to install the Graphite PowerShell Function (https://github.com/MattHodge/Graphite-PowerShell-Functions) script using Chef. Sets up the script as a Windows service using the Non-Sucky Service Manager (http://nssm.cc/) as outlined in Matt Hodge's documentation for Graphite PowerShell Functions.

Requirements

Chef

• Chef 12.1+

Platforms

• Windows

Cookbooks

• Windows

Attributes

• default['graphite_powershell_functions']['CarbonServer'] FQDN of the carbon host. Required
• default['graphite_powershell_functions']['CarbonServerPort'] port of the carbon host (default: 2003).
• default['graphite_powershell_functions']['MetricPath'] Path to prefix on the collected metrics (default: powershell.).
• default['graphite_powershell_functions']['MetricSendIntervalSeconds'] Interval to grab metrics (default: 30).
• default['graphite_powershell_functions']['TimeZoneOfGraphiteServer'] Timezone of the Graphite server (default UTC).
• default['graphite_powershell_functions']['PerformanceCounters'] Array of performance counters to collect
• default['graphite_powershell_functions']['MetricFilter'] Array of Metrics to filter
• default['graphite_powershell_functions']['nssm_archive'] URL of the Non-Sucky Service Manager zip archive
• default['graphite_powershell_functions']['nssm_archive_checksum'] shasum for the zip archive
• default['graphite_powershell_functions']['install_dir'] directory to install to
• default['graphite_powershell_functions']['service_name'] name of the service
• `default['graphite_powershell_functions']['service_description'] description of the service

License & Authors

• Author: Tim Smith ([email protected])

Copyright:: 2014-2016, Limelight Networks, Inc.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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chef-graphite_powershell_functions's Issues

Requires the Graphite-Powershell module to be present

Thanks for sharing this!

One item I found to be not documented (or maybe I missed it) was that if you do not have...

1. PowerShell v3.0 or higher
2. The Graphite-Powershell module from here
   ...this doesn't work.

Once you have those in place, however, this works like a charm!

gsub string in ['MetricPath'] removing any last char

When altering the 'MetricPath' attribute , the gsub function at the end of the template assignment is removing any last char.

I attempted to change the path and it kept removing the last '.' delimiter.
I also found that when the path string was the word "environ"
it printed "enviro" in to the file.

the Ugly hack I did to fix it was add an extra ' ' at the end , but it is not a good way to fix the string manipulation.

Collectd attributes cause NoMethodError

Thank you so much for contributing this cookbook!

I've encountered an issue with node['collectd'] inside attributes/default.rb. I'm including graphite_powershell_functions from another cookbook and even though I am overriding CarbonServer, CarbonServerPort and MetricPath I'm getting a NoMethodError during compile time. Since graphite_powershell_functions doesn't depend on collectd, would you consider removing node['collectd'] from the default attributes?

c:/chef/cache/cookbooks/graphite_powershell_functions/attributes/default.rb:18:in `from_file'
NoMethodError: undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass