Swarm Telemetry

To download Swarm Telemetry (OVA for VMware ESXi), a customer needs to contact DataCore support team. Once it is downloaded, refer to the following steps to deploy Swarm Telemetry:

1. Login to VMware ESXi and click Create/Register VM.

2. Select Deploy a virtual machine from an OVF or OVA file and click Next.

   

3. Drag and drop swarmTelemetry-v12.1.0-x86_64.ova and click Next.

   

4. Select the appropriate datastore and click Next.

   

5. Select an appropriate network from ESXi, then click Next button.

   1. VM Network – Application network

   2. VM Demo Lab 2 Internal – Private network

      

6. Verify settings before finalizing. If it looks correct, deploy SwarmTelemetry to ESXi.

   

7. Power on SwarmTelemetry VM.

8. Update IP addresses from ESXi Console to enable SwarmTelemetry. It will access Gateway and Swarm storage nodes to load metrics and to reboot SwarmTelemetry. 

   • ens33 – 172.16.33.15/24

   • ens160 – 192.168.9.15/24

9. SSH/Putty to SwarmTelemetry using;

   1. Username - root

   2. Password - datacore

10. Modify Prometheus configure file by;

    1. Adding gateways job

    2. Adding Swarm Nodes job

       vi /etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml
       
       # Add Gateways
         - job_name: 'gw77-01'
           static_configs:
           - targets: ['172.16.33.16:9100']
        
         - job_name: 'gw77-02'
           static_configs:
           - targets: ['172.16.33.17:9100']
        
         - job_name: 'swarm'
           scrape_interval: 30s
           static_configs:
           - targets: ['192.168.9.143:9100','192.168.9.144:9100','192.168.9.145:9100']
           relabel_configs:
           - source_labels: [__address__]
             regex: "([^:]+):\\d+"
             target_label: instance

11. Restart Prometheus server using systemctl restart prometheus command.

12. Browse http://172.16.33.15:9090/targets URL.

    

13. Login to SwarmTelemetry Grafana using;

    1. Username - admin

    2. Password - datacore