GoCollect collects various pieces of system info and publishes them to a central server.

The intent of GoCollect is to create a map of your servers with slow and never changing data items. Where you may use Zabbix for semi-realtime monitoring of integer values like current CPU usage, you use GoCollect to collect values like hard drive serial numbers, IPMI IP-addresses and versions of installed OS packages.

Installing

make && make install
cp /etc/gocollect.conf.sample /etc/gocollect.conf
# edit /etc/gocollect.conf
# then start/restart gocollect using your favorite init method

You may need to set up a go path first:

mkdir -p ~/go
export GOPATH=~/go

And check this out inside that:

git clone https://github.com/ossobv/gocollect \
  $GOPATH/src/github.com/ossobv/gocollect

And install prerequisites:

go get github.com/ossobv/go-getopt

Possibly set env to old style module handling:

# go.mod file not found in current directory or any parent directory...
go env -w GO111MODULE=off  # sets ~/.config/go/env: GO111MODULE=off

Packaging for Debian

Prerequisites:

$ sudo apt-get install git-buildpackage dh-make dh-systemd

Optional:

$ cat > .git/gbp.conf << EOF
[DEFAULT]
upstream-branch=main
debian-branch=debian

[buildpackage]
upstream-tag = v%(version)s
EOF

Running:

$ git checkout debian
$ gbp buildpackage -sa \
    --git-debian-branch=debian --git-upstream-tag='v%(version)s'

Note that release candidate versions must be tagged as v1.2_rc3. gbp-buildpackage rewrites the underscore to a debian-style tilde. Pre-release development versions shall be called v1.3_dev which sorts before v1.3_rc1, which in turn sorts before v1.3.

Packaging a tarball

To to create a tarball with the latest version, including a config file, do this:

$ cd gocollect-client
$ TGZ_CONFIG=/path/to/gocollect.conf make tgz
...
Created: gocollect-v0.4~rc6+1.g83d4-md5conf-c0f48c3.tar.gz

You can then extract and run that archive on the target machine like this:

$ cat gocollect-v0.4~rc6+1.g83d4-md5conf-c0f48c3.tar.gz | sudo tar -xzvC /
$ sudo /etc/init.d/gocollect start

You may need to install additional dependencies first to get all collectors to work properly. For example smartmontools or ipmitool.

Golang notes to self

• https://golang.org/doc/code.html
• http://openmymind.net/
• https://jamescun.com/golang/binary-size/

License

The source code is licensed according to the GNU GPLv3+; see LICENSE.

The artwork – the GoCollect logo – is licensed according to the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0); see LICENSE.CC.BY-NC-SA.4-0.txt.