Installing and configuring Ceph Metrics with the Grafana dashboard

You have used ceph-ansible to set up your cluster, and you can use the same ceph-ansible virtual machine to install cephmetrics to take advantage of the inventory file—/etc/ansible/hosts.

How to do it...

We will use the following commands for configuring Ceph Metrics in ceph-node1:

1. In this book, ceph-ansible virtual machine is ceph-node1. Perform the following steps in ceph-node1. This will install repositories which include the cephmetrics packages and its dependencies.

        sudo su -
        mkdir ~/cephmetrics
        curl -L -o /etc/yum.repos.d/cephmetrics.repo 
        http://download.ceph.com/cephmetrics/rpm-
                                     master/el7/cephmetrics.repo
        yum install cephmetrics-ansible -y

2. Edit the inventory file.

You need to modify /etc/ansible/hosts to add Ceph Metrics node and in this book, we are using ceph-node1 as Ceph Metrics node.  If you are running ansible-playbook on a host mentioned...