Debian Squeeze Graphite and Stats_D installation.

graphite_statsd

## Debian Repository -
--> /etc/apt/sources.list
====>
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian squeeze main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian squeeze main contrib non-free

deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian squeeze-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian squeeze-updates main contrib non-free

# backports 
deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main
deb-src http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main
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## Upgrading the system.
-->apt-get update
-->apt-get upgrade

## installing the useful libraries
-->apt-get install g++ curl libssl-dev apache2-utils git-core

## install other graphite dependencies
-->apt-get install build-essential python2.6-dev python-cairo python-django memcached python-memcache python-ldap python-twisted apache2 libapache2-mod-python make python-django-tagging python-twisted python-dev python-pip libcairo2 libcairo2-dev python-cairo pkg-config sqlite

## Downloading the source node and compiling and installing 
-->wget https://github.com/joyent/node/zipball/v0.6.18 && unzip v0.6.18
-->cd node
-->./configure
-->make
-->make install

## installing the Node package manager for statsd
-->curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sudo sh
-->npm install express

## Downloading and installing the graphite+carbon+whisper
-->mkdir packages && cd packages
-->wget  --no-check-certificate http://launchpad.net/graphite/0.9/0.9.9/+download/graphite-web-0.9.9.tar.gz
-->wget  --no-check-certificate http://launchpad.net/graphite/0.9/0.9.9/+download/carbon-0.9.9.tar.gz
-->wget  --no-check-certificate http://launchpad.net/graphite/0.9/0.9.9/+download/whisper-0.9.9.tar.gz
tar -zxvf graphite-web-0.9.9.tar.gz && tar -zxvf carbon-0.9.9.tar.gz && tar -zxvf whisper-0.9.9.tar.gz && mv graphite-web-0.9.9 graphite && mv carbon-0.9.9 carbon && mv whisper-0.9.9 whisper

## INSTALL WHISPER
-->pushd whisper
-->python setup.py install
-->popd
 
## INSTALL CARBON
-->pushd carbon
-->python setup.py install
-->popd

## CONFIGURE CARBON
-->pushd /opt/graphite/conf
-->cp carbon.conf.example carbon.conf
-->cp storage-schemas.conf.example storage-schemas.conf
-->vim storage-schemas.conf
 
### (NOT SHELL!) edited storage-schemas.conf to be the following
[stats]
priority = 110
pattern = .*
retentions = 10:2160,60:10080,600:262974
###

-->popd

## CONFIGURE GRAPHITE (webapp)
-->apt-get install python-dev
-->easy_install twisted txamqp
-->pushd graphite
-->python check-dependencies.py
-->python setup.py install

## disabling python_mod and enabling wsgi mod
-->a2dismod python && /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
-->cd/opt/packages/graphite/examples
-->apt-get install libapache2-mod-wsgi
-->a2enmod modwsgi

## CONFIGURE APACHE
-->cp example-graphite-vhost.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/default
-->cp /opt/graphite/conf/graphite.wsgi.example /opt/graphite/conf/graphite.wsgi
-->vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/default
# moved 'WSGIImportScript /opt/graphite/' to right before virtual host since it gave me an error saying
# WSGIImportScript cannot occur within <VirtualHost> section
# if this path does not exist make it!!!!!!
# /etc/httpd/wsgi
-->mkdir -p /etc/httpd/wsgi
-->/etc/init.d/apache2 reload

## INITIAL DATABASE CREATION
-->pushd /opt/graphite/webapp/graphite/
-->python manage.py syncdb
## follow prompts to setup django admin user
-->chown -R www-data:www-data /opt/graphite/storage/
-->/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
-->popd
-->/opt/graphite/webapp/graphite
-->cp local_settings.py.example local_settings.py

## START CARBON
-->popd
-->pushd /opt/graphite/
-->./bin/carbon-cache.py start
-->popd

## clone the statsd project
-->cd /opt/graphite
-->git clone https://github.com/etsy/statsd.git
-->cp exampleConfig.js local.js
-->vim local.js
===>
{
  graphitePort: 2003
, graphiteHost: "localhost"
, port: 8125
}
===>

## Start STATSD
-->cd /opt/graphite/statsd/; nohup node stats.js local.js &

===>>> Tweeks -
1) The Flot graph stuff won’t work with Python 2.6+ without a change to 
 /opt/graphite/webapp/graphite/graphlot/views.py and changing line 6 from:
import simplejson
to
import json as simplejson

2) INIT Script 
-->vim /etc/init.d/carbon
===>
#! /bin/sh
# /etc/init.d/carbon

# Some things that run always
touch /var/lock/carbon

GRAPHITE_HOME=/opt/graphite
CARBON_USER=www-data

# Carry out specific functions when asked to by the system
case "$1" in
    start)
        echo "Starting script carbon "
        su $CARBON_USER -c "cd $GRAPHITE_HOME"; su $CARBON_USR -c "$GRAPHITE_HOME/bin/carbon-cache.py start"
        ;;
    stop)
        echo "Stopping script carbon"
        su $CARBON_USER -c "cd $GRAPHITE_HOME"; su $CARBON_USR -c "$GRAPHITE_HOME/bin/carbon-cache.py stop"
        ;;
    *)
        echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/carbon {start|stop}"
        exit 1
        ;;
esac

exit 0
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-->chmod u+x /etc/init.d/carbon
-->update-rc.d carbon defaults