Application: Splunk for Citrix XenServer Management
Categories:
- Technologies » Operating Systems » Virtualization Solutions » Citrix virtualization
- Operations » Virtualization
Description
This Splunk application manages Citrix XenServers. It includes inputs, indexing, searches, reports, dashboards and field actions.
Splunk for Citrix XenServer Management
Splunk brings powerful indexing, search, alerting and reporting to the challenge of managing server virtualization. It's the only approach that easily crosses tiers - both inside and outside of the VM - for a complete picture. Splunk indexes all IT data across every tier - the physical servers, hypervisor, VMs, and deployed applications, capturing data in real-time so that the evidence not lost as VMs are created and destroyed. Powerful search and navigation lets you trace performance problems and errors across components. Visibility across VMs highlights resource competition issues. Flexible alerting and reporting give you continuous visibility and monitoring of changing virtual environments. Whether you're testing a new virtualization rollout or managing an existing infrastructure, Splunk puts you back in control.
Installation
* download the application from the Download button and save it where it can be found
* cd into the Splunk applications directory which is typically /opt/splunk/etc/bundles
* run "tar xvfz xen.tar.gz" to unpack application
* a directory called "xen" will be created
* cd into xen
* edit inputs.conf and set "disabled = false"
* edit xen.conf and set the name and IP of your XenServer.
* if you want to collect data from more than one XenServer, you can add names and IPs separated by commas
* write and quit xen.con
* restart splunk, typically "/opt/splunk/bin/splunk restart"
* see xen data if you search for "source=xenapi"