Graphing

I recently added a fantastic graphing tool named facette to pkgsrc. Facette knows how to pull data sources from various backends, and among them, the famous collectd.

In this article, we will see how to setup both on NetBSD but keep in mind it should also work for any platform supported by pkgsrc.

First up, collectd installation. It can be done either with pkgin (binary installation) or pkgsrc (source installation):

• with pkgin

$ sudo pkgin in collectd collectd-rrdtool

• with pkgsrc

 $ cd /usr/pkgsrc/sysutils/collectd
 $ sudo make install clean
 $ cd ../collectd-rrdtool
 $ sudo make install clean

Tune up a minimal collectd configuration