Deploying Operational Tools

TripleO comes with an optional suite of tools designed to help operators maintain an OpenStack environment. The tools perform the following functions:

  • Availability Monitoring

  • Centralized Logging

  • Performance Monitoring

This document will go through the presentation and installation of these tools.

Architecture

  1. Operational Tool Server:

  2. Undercloud:

    • There is no operational tools installed by default on the undercloud

  3. Overcloud:

Deploying the Operational Tool Server

There is an ansible project called opstools-ansible (OpsTools) on github that helps to install the Operator Server, further documentation of the operational tool server instalation can be founded at (OpsToolsDoc).

Deploying the Undercloud

As there is nothing to install on the undercloud nothing needs to be done.

Before deploying the Overcloud

Note

The Deploying with Heat Templates document has a more detailed explanation of the following steps.

  1. Install client packages on overcloud-full image:

    • Mount the image and create a chroot:

      temp_dir=$(mktemp -d)
      sudo tripleo-mount-image -a /path/to/overcloud-full.qcow2 -m $temp_dir
      sudo mount -o bind /dev $temp_dir/dev/
      sudo cp /etc/resolv.conf $temp_dir/etc/resolv.conf
      sudo chroot $temp_dir /bin/bash
      
    • Install the packages inside the chroot:

      dnf install -y centos-release-opstools
      dnf install -y sensu fluentd collectd
      exit
      
    • Unmount the image:

      sudo rm $temp_dir/etc/resolv.conf
      sudo umount $temp_dir/dev
      sudo tripleo-unmount-image -m $temp_dir
      
    • Upload new image to undercloud image registry:

      openstack overcloud image upload --update-existing
      
  2. Operational tools configuration files:

    The files have some documentation about the parameters that need to be configured

    • Availability Monitoring:

      /usr/share/openstack-tripleo-heat-templates/environments/monitoring-environment.yaml
      
    • Centralized Logging:

      /usr/share/openstack-tripleo-heat-templates/environments/logging-environment.yaml
      
    • Performance Monitoring:

      /usr/share/openstack-tripleo-heat-templates/environments/collectd-environment.yaml
      
  3. Configure the environment

    The easiest way to configure our environment will be to create a parameter file, let’s called parameters.yaml with all the parameters defined.

    • Availability Monitoring:

      MonitoringRabbitHost: server_ip          # Server were the rabbitmq was installed
      MonitoringRabbitPort: 5672               # Rabbitmq port
      MonitoringRabbitUserName: sensu_user     # the rabbitmq user to be used by sensu
      MonitoringRabbitPassword: sensu_password # The password of the sensu user
      MonitoringRabbitUseSSL: false            # Set to false
      MonitoringRabbitVhost: "/sensu_vhost"    # The virtual host of the rabbitmq
      
    • Centralized Logging:

      LoggingServers:        # The servers
        - host: server_ip    # The ip of the server
          port: 24224        # Port to send the logs [ 24224 plain & 24284 SSL ]
      LoggingUsesSSL: false  # Plain or SSL connections
                             # If LoggingUsesSSL is set to  false the following lines can
                             # be deleted
      LoggingSharedKey: secret           # The key
      LoggingSSLCertificate: |           # The content of the SSL Certificate
        -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
        ...contens of server.pem here...
        -----END CERTIFICATE-----
      
    • Performance Monitoring:

      CollectdServer: collectd0.example.com   # Collectd server, where the data is going to be sent
      CollectdServerPort: 25826               # Collectd port
      # CollectdSecurityLevel: None           # Security by default None the other values are
                                              #   Encrypt & Sign, but the two following parameters
                                              #   need to be set too
      # CollectdUsername: user                # User to connect to the server
      # CollectdPassword: password            # Password to connect to the server
      
                                              # Collectd, by default, comes with several plugins
                                              #  extra plugins can added on this parameter
      CollectdExtraPlugins:
        - disk                                # disk plugin
        - df                                  # df   plugin
      ExtraConfig:                            # If the plugins need to be set, this is the location
        collectd::plugin::disk::disks:
          - "/^[vhs]d[a-f][0-9]?$/"
        collectd::plugin::df::mountpoints:
          - "/"
        collectd::plugin::df::ignoreselected: false
      
  4. Continue following the TripleO instructions for deploying an overcloud:

    openstack overcloud deploy --templates \
       [-e /usr/share/openstack-tripleo-heat-templates/environments/monitoring-environment.yaml] \
       [-e  /usr/share/openstack-tripleo-heat-templates/environments/logging-environment.yaml] \
       [-e /usr/share/openstack-tripleo-heat-templates/environments/collectd-environment.yaml] \
       -e parameters.yaml
    
  5. Wait for the completion of the overcloud deployment process.