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diff --git a/docs/source/index.rst b/docs/source/index.rst index af8818388..17aeb3a1c 100644 --- a/docs/source/index.rst +++ b/docs/source/index.rst @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Hybrid Information-Centric Networking ===================================== .. toctree:: - + started lib vpp-plugin @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Hybrid Information-Centric Networking hicn-light interface control + telemetry utils apps diff --git a/docs/source/telemetry.md b/docs/source/telemetry.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..0af3b0e02 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/source/telemetry.md @@ -0,0 +1,116 @@ +# Telemetry + +Tools to collect telemetry from hICN forwarders. + +## Introduction ## + +The project containes two plugins for [collectd](https://github.com/collectd/collectd): +* vpp: to collect statistics for VPP +* vpp-hicn: to collect statistics for [hICN](https://github.com/FDio/hicn) + + +Currently the two plugins provide the followign funtionalities: + +* VPP: statistics (rx/tx bytes and packets) for each available interface. +* HICN-VPP: statistics (rx/tx bytes and packets) for each available face. + +## Quick Start ## + +``` +From the code tree root + +$ cd telemetry +$ mkdir -p build +$ cd build +$ cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr +$ make +$ sudo make install +``` + +## Using hICN collectd plugins ## + +### Platforms ### + +hICN collectd plugins have been tested in: + +- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (x86_64) +- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (x86_64) +- Debian Stable/Testing +- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 +- CentOS 7 + + +### Dependencies ### + +Build dependencies: + +- VPP 20.01 + - DEB packages (can be found https://packagecloud.io/fdio/release/install): + - vpp + - libvppinfra-dev + - vpp-dev + - hicn-plugin-dev + +## Getting started ## + +Collectd needs to be configured in order to use the hICN collectd plugins. +The configuration can be achieved editing the file '/etc/collectd/collectd.conf' and adding the following lines: + +``` +LoadPlugin vpp +LoadPlugin vpp_hicn +``` + +Before running collectd, a vpp forwarder must be started. If the vpp-hicn plugin is used, the hicn-plugin must be available in the vpp forwarder + +### Example: use rrdtool and csv plugin to store statistics from vpp and vpp-hicn plugins + +Edit the configuration file as the following: + +``` +###################################################################### +# Global # +###################################################################### +FQDNLookup true +BaseDir "/collectd" +Interval 2 + +###################################################################### +# Logging # +###################################################################### +LoadPlugin logfile + +<Plugin logfile> + LogLevel "info" + File "/var/log/collectd.log" + Timestamp true + PrintSeverity true +</Plugin> + +###################################################################### +# Plugins # +###################################################################### +LoadPlugin csv +LoadPlugin rrdtool +LoadPlugin vpp +LoadPlugin vpp_hicn + +###################################################################### +# Plugin configuration # +###################################################################### +<Plugin csv> + DataDir "/collectd/csv" # the folder under which statistics are written in csv + StoreRates true +</Plugin> + +<Plugin rrdtool> + DataDir "/collectd/rrd" # the folder under which statistics are written in csv +</Plugin> +``` + +Run vpp and collectd + +``` +$ systemctl start vpp +$ systemctl start collectd +``` |