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My starting directory looks like.
> ll /Users/fedora_user/graphite_downloads] > ll total 0 drwxr-xr-x 19 fedora_user staff 646 5 Sep 12:31 carbon drwxr-xr-x 23 fedora_user staff 782 4 Sep 15:37 graphite-web drwxr-xr-x 10 fedora_user staff 340 5 Sep 08:58 whisper
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- If you are using the default sqlite3 database, create an administrator username/password when prompted and then re-open local_settings.py, un-comment the DATABASES variable and add the administrator username/password to the DATABASES variable.
- If you receive an error "ImportError: cannot import name execute_manager", you have an old version of graphite-web that requires Django 1.4. Get the latest changes from the GitHub repositories.
If you Make sure that the entire storage directory (default /opt/graphite/storage) and all files are owned by the webserver process.
Start Data Collector
cd /opt/graphite/bin/ sudo python carbon-cache.py start Password: Starting carbon-cache (instance a)
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in /opt/graphite/conf/carbon.conf but this will not harm the running process and does not need to be disabled.
Stronger security
Note: If you are not running the carbon-cache.py daemon as root, then you will need to make the storage directory writable by whichever user you will run carbon-cache.py as.
For example: If you are running Apache as www-data and the carbon-cache.py as ubuntu then your /opt/graphite/storage directory will look like:
> ll /opt/graphite/storage
total 104
drwxr-xr-x 6 www-data www-data 4096 Sep 8 21:50 ./
drwxr-xr-x 8 ubuntu root 4096 Sep 8 21:42 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 5 Sep 8 21:46 carbon-cache-a.pid
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 69632 Sep 8 21:50 graphite.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 762 Sep 8 21:50 index
drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Sep 8 21:40 lists/
drwxr-xr-x 4 www-data www-data 4096 Sep 8 21:46 log/
drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Sep 8 21:40 rrd/
drwxr-xr-x 5 ubuntu www-data 4096 Sep 10 18:19 whisper/This will allow carbon-cache.py to add new metrics and the web application access to read them.
Restart Apache
If all is well then browsing to your webserver's homepage should look something like this.
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