At work we use munin and cfEngine extensively, therefore it is accurate to assume that we have a tight-knit setup that allows us to scale munin-node to all hosts in cfEngine, and have the munin-master configured through it as well. This post describes our configuration, and how it takes place.
Category: centos
Hopefully you’ve read the first part(Munin-Node), and have one or more nodes already configured. It’s alright if the munin-node is running on the same machine as the munin-master. The master is more of a pain to set up than the client, and could require significantly more debugging.
After becoming increasingly frustrated with cacti’s lack of sane repeatable configuration and extensibility I began to explore other options.
Munin showed the most promise and compatibility with many of the services we run at the OSL, such as memcached and varnish. I liked how the plugin system is set up independently on each host, and that each plugin can be managed, configured, and consolidated through symlinks.