This repo is a Chef cookbook to install and configure JMXTrans originally developed by Bryan Berry. Thanks Bryan. Since Bryan is no longer maintaining the original repo, this repo was created with his permission.

jmxtrans is an excellent tool for transporting jmx data from your VMs and into a graphing tool like graphite or ganglia. This cookbook only supports writing to graphite but could be easily modified to work with ganglia

Depends on the ark cookbook

• node['jmxtrans']['graphite']['host'] - defaults to 'graphite'
• node['jmxtrans']['graphite']['port'] - default to 2003
• node['jmxtrans']['servers'] - array of servers to query for jmx data along with the properties needed to access each one
• node['jmxtrans']['root_prefix'] - root prefix for the graphite buckets, defaults to "jmx"

You must override the attribute node['jmxtrans']['servers'] with the list of servers you want monitored and their respective properties

the following example comes from a role

:jmxtrans => {
   :servers =>[
      {
        'name' => 'foo1.example.org',
        'port' => "8999",
        'type' => 'tomcat',
        'username' => 'foobar',
        'password' => 'rw'
      },
      {
        'name' => 'foo2.example.org',
        'port' => "8999",
        'type' => 'tomcat',
        'username' => 'foobar',
        'password' => 'baz'
       }
     ]                                   
}

Copyright 2012, Apache 2.0 license