Early Warning System for Ceph. Please note this will have code for the ceph dashboard, anomaly detection(will be here in the next release) etc.

• Ceph cluster monitoring
• Ceph OSD monitoring
• Ceph pool management
• Ceph CRUSH rule management
• Ceph object distribution query

CephEWS relys on ceph-rest-api to read Ceph status and manage the whole cluster.

To collect metrics from each OSD hosts.

CephEWS reads metrics via Graphite api. Please make sure CephEWS can access Graphite web interface.

Please install collectd on each of OSD host nodes and one of the monitor nodes.

• Enable collectd network plugin, setup collectd server, MaxPacketSize should be larger than 4096.
• Install collectd ceph plugin: https://github.com/rochaporto/collectd-ceph.
• Enable collectd write_graphite plugin.

• Enable collectd network plugin, send metrics to the collectd server configured above.
• Enable load, memory, disk plugins in collectd.

• Copy dashboard/dashboard/settings.py.example to dashboard/dashboard/settings.py. Change settings accordingly.
• Create database: python manage.py migrate.
• Create super user: python manage.py createsuperuser.
• Start the web server: python manage.py runserver, you should be able to see the dashboard in you web browser with the address: http://127.0.0.1:8000.

• Install librados: sudo apt-get install python-rados python-rbd.
• Set the path to ceph.conf and ceph.client.admin.keyring in dashboard/dashboard/settings.py. Give CephEWS access both of the files.