How to Install tcollector on NetBSD

Introduction

tcollector is a collection daemon for OpenTSDB that collects system and application metrics. In this tutorial, we will go through the process of installing tcollector on NetBSD.

Prerequisites

Before proceeding with the installation, you need to ensure that your NetBSD system is up-to-date by running the following command:

$ sudo pkgin update && sudo pkgin upgrade

Install Dependencies

tcollector requires Python and some additional packages to be installed on your system. To install them, run the following command:

$ sudo pkgin install py27-setuptools py27-requests

Install tcollector

  1. Download the latest tcollector release package from the official website:
$ wget https://github.com/OpenTSDB/tcollector/archive/<tcollector-version>.tar.gz

Replace <tcollector-version> with the version you want to install.

  1. Extract the package:
$ tar -xvf <tcollector-version>.tar.gz
  1. Change to the extracted tcollector directory:
$ cd tcollector-<tcollector-version>
  1. Install tcollector using setuptools:
$ sudo python setup.py install

Configure tcollector

  1. Create a directory for tcollector configuration files:
$ sudo mkdir /etc/tcollector
  1. Copy the example configuration file from tcollector directory to the configuration directory:
$ sudo cp conf/tcollector.conf.example /etc/tcollector/tcollector.conf
  1. Open /etc/tcollector/tcollector.conf for editing:
$ sudo nano /etc/tcollector/tcollector.conf
  1. Configure the following settings in the configuration file:
TSDB_HOST = <OpenTSDB host>
TSDB_PORT = <OpenTSDB port>

Replace <OpenTSDB host> and <OpenTSDB port> with the hostname and port number of your OpenTSDB server.

Start tcollector

  1. To start tcollector, run the following command:
$ sudo /usr/local/bin/tcollector
  1. Verify that tcollector is running by checking its log file:
$ sudo tail -f /var/log/tcollector.log

Congratulations! You have successfully installed and configured tcollector on your NetBSD system. tcollector will now start collecting system and application metrics and sending them to your OpenTSDB server.