setup-statsd-centos.sh

# First do a fresh install of CentOS 5.7 i386, server configuration (no GUI)
# This should be performed as root since it's going to be installing a bunch of stuff

# --- Update things to make sure we have the latest patches ---
# Add EPEL so we can get reasonably recent packages
rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

# --- Install all the packages --- #
yum -y install python-whisper python-carbon graphite-web python-memcached python-ldap httpd memcached

# ===== BEGIN MANUAL STEP =====
# run syncdb to setup the db and prime the authentication model (if you're using the DB model)
python /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/graphite/manage.py syncdb
# ===== END MANUAL STEP =====

# --- CEZB: fix selinux enforce and httpd ownership of the DB --- #
echo 0 > /selinux/enforce
chown apache.apache /var/lib/graphite-web/graphite.db

# --- Allow HTTP through firewall --- #
iptables -I INPUT 5 -m state --state NEW -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
iptables-save > /etc/sysconfig/iptables

service carbon-cache restart
service memcached restart
service httpd restart


# === Below needs to be re-validated for 6.4 === #


# --- Install git ---
yum install -y gcc zlib-devel curl curl-devel openssl
wget http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.8.4.2.tar.bz2
tar xjf git-1.8.4.2.tar.bz2
pushd git-1.8.4.2
./configure && make && make install
popd
rm -rf git*

# --- Install NodeJS ---
yum install -y gcc-c++
git clone https://github.com/joyent/node.git
pushd node
./configure && make && make install
popd
rm -rf node

# --- Install the Node Package Manager ---
curl https://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh
npm install express

# --- Install StatsD ---
git clone https://github.com/etsy/statsd.git
cd statsd
# copy the the statsd config example to create the config file
# unless you used non-default ports for some other feature of the system, the defaults in the config file are fine
cp exampleConfig.js local.js
# --- Start StatsD ---
node stats.js local.js

Updated version for git and protocol to httpS in URI for npmjs (node package manager)

Added some fixes needed on my centos 6.3 box around graphite error like so

DatabaseError: attempt to write a readonly database