[Bug 617704] New: Setup collectd for collecting system statistics

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https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=617704
  sysadmin | Puppet | unspecified

           Summary: Setup collectd for collecting system statistics
    Classification: Infrastructure
           Product: sysadmin
           Version: unspecified
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: Normal
         Component: Puppet
        AssignedTo: sysadmin-maint gnome bugs
        ReportedBy: bugzilla-gnome vitters nl
         QAContact: sysadmin-maint gnome bugs
      GNOME target: ---
     GNOME version: ---


I didn't like the mrtg setup. Some changes I've made broke it.

A nice replacement is collectd. An example as used by Fedora:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/collectd/bin/index.cgi?hostname=app07&plugin=memory&timespan=604800&action=show_selection&ok_button=OK

Project page of collectd:
http://collectd.org/

It has various plugins, though we should just focus on the basics: memory, CPU
usage, load.

Later on we could expand it to e.g. the MySQL plugin and so on.

The goal of this bug:
1. Have somewhere where the statistics are collected
2. Automatically have each Puppet node collect statistics
3. Display these statistics on a website (possibly protected by a simple
password)

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