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<h1>Traffic Monitor Administration<a class="headerlink" href="#traffic-monitor-administration" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h1>
<div class="section" id="installing-traffic-monitor">
<h2>Installing Traffic Monitor<a class="headerlink" href="#installing-traffic-monitor" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>The following are requirements to ensure an accurate set up:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>CentOS 6</li>
<li>4 vCPUs</li>
<li>8GB RAM</li>
<li>Successful install of Traffic Ops</li>
<li>Tomcat</li>
<li>Administrative access to the Traffic Ops</li>
<li>Physical address of the site</li>
<li>perl-JSON</li>
<li>perl-WWW-Curl</li>
</ul>
<ol class="arabic">
<li><p class="first">Enter the Traffic Monitor server into Traffic Ops</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Make sure the FQDN of the Traffic Monitor is resolvable in DNS.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Install Traffic Monitor and perl mods: <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">sudo</span> <span class="pre">yum</span> <span class="pre">-y</span> <span class="pre">install</span> <span class="pre">traffic_monitor</span> <span class="pre">perl-JSON</span> <span class="pre">perl-WWW-Curl</span></code></p>
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<li><p class="first">Take the config from Traffic Ops - run : <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">sudo</span> <span class="pre">/opt/traffic_monitor/bin/traffic_monitor_config.pl</span></code></p>
<blockquote>
<div><p>Sample output:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre>traffic_mon # /opt/traffic_monitor/bin/traffic_monitor_config.pl https://traffic-ops.cdn.kabletown.net admin:password prompt
DEBUG: traffic_ops selected: https://traffic-ops.cdn.kabletown.net
DEBUG: traffic_ops login: admin:kl0tevax
DEBUG: Config write mode: prompt
DEBUG: Found profile from traffic_ops: RASCAL_CDN
DEBUG: Found CDN name from traffic_ops: kabletown_cdn
DEBUG: Found location for rascal-config.txt from traffic_ops: /opt/traffic_monitor/conf
WARN: Param not in traffic_ops: allow.config.edit description: Allow the running configuration to be edited through the UI Using default value of: false
WARN: Param not in traffic_ops: default.accessControlAllowOrigin description: The value for the header: Access-Control-Allow-Origin for published jsons... should be narrowed down to TMs Using default value of: *
WARN: Param not in traffic_ops: default.connection.timeout description: Default connection time for all queries (cache, peers, TM) Using default value of: 2000
WARN: Param not in traffic_ops: hack.forceSystemExit description: Call System.exit on shutdown Using default value of: false
WARN: Param not in traffic_ops: hack.peerOptimistic description: The assumption of a caches availability when unknown by peers Using default value of: true
WARN: Param not in traffic_ops: hack.publishDsStates description: If true, the delivery service states will be included in the CrStates.json Using default value of: true
WARN: Param not in traffic_ops: health.ds.interval description: The polling frequency for calculating the deliveryService states Using default value of: 1000
WARN: Param not in traffic_ops: health.ds.leniency description: The amount of time before the deliveryService disregards the last update from a non-responsive cache Using default value of: 30000
WARN: Param not in traffic_ops: health.event-count description: The number of historical events that will be kept Using default value of: 200
WARN: Param not in traffic_ops: health.polling.interval description: The polling frequency for getting the states from caches Using default value of: 5000
WARN: Param not in traffic_ops: health.startupMinCycles description: The number of query cycles that must be completed before this Traffic Monitor will start reporting Using default value of: 2
WARN: Param not in traffic_ops: health.timepad description: A delay between each separate cache query Using default value of: 10
WARN: Param not in traffic_ops: peers.polling.interval description: Polling frequency for getting states from peer monitors Using default value of: 5000
WARN: Param not in traffic_ops: peers.polling.url description: The url for current, unfiltered states from peer monitors Using default value of: http://${hostname}/publish/CrStates?raw
WARN: Param not in traffic_ops: peers.threadPool description: The number of threads given to the pool for querying peers Using default value of: 1
WARN: Param not in traffic_ops: tm.auth.url description: The url for the authentication form Using default value of: https://${tmHostname}/login
WARN: Param not in traffic_ops: tm.crConfig.json.polling.url description: Url for the cr-config (json) Using default value of: https://${tmHostname}/CRConfig-Snapshots/${cdnName}/CRConfig.json
WARN: Param not in traffic_ops: tm.healthParams.polling.url description: The url for the heath params (json) Using default value of: https://${tmHostname}/health/${cdnName}
WARN: Param not in traffic_ops: tm.polling.interval description: The polling frequency for getting updates from TM Using default value of: 10000
DEBUG: allow.config.edit needed in config, but does not exist in config on disk.
DEBUG: cdnName value on disk () does not match value needed in config (kabletown_cdn).
DEBUG: default.accessControlAllowOrigin needed in config, but does not exist in config on disk.
DEBUG: default.connection.timeout needed in config, but does not exist in config on disk.
DEBUG: hack.forceSystemExit needed in config, but does not exist in config on disk.
DEBUG: hack.peerOptimistic needed in config, but does not exist in config on disk.
DEBUG: hack.publishDsStates needed in config, but does not exist in config on disk.
DEBUG: health.ds.interval needed in config, but does not exist in config on disk.
DEBUG: health.ds.leniency needed in config, but does not exist in config on disk.
DEBUG: health.startupMinCycles needed in config, but does not exist in config on disk.
DEBUG: health.timepad value on disk (20) does not match value needed in config (10).
DEBUG: peers.polling.interval needed in config, but does not exist in config on disk.
DEBUG: peers.threadPool needed in config, but does not exist in config on disk.
DEBUG: tm.auth.password value on disk () does not match value needed in config (kl0tevax).
DEBUG: tm.auth.username value on disk () does not match value needed in config (admin).
DEBUG: tm.hostname value on disk () does not match value needed in config (traffic-ops.cdn.kabletown.net).
DEBUG: Proposed traffic_monitor_config:
{
&quot;traffic_monitor_config&quot;:{
&quot;default.accessControlAllowOrigin&quot;:&quot;*&quot;,
&quot;health.startupMinCycles&quot;:&quot;2&quot;,
&quot;tm.auth.password&quot;:&quot;kl0tevax&quot;,
&quot;tm.auth.url&quot;:&quot;https://${tmHostname}/login&quot;,
&quot;tm.healthParams.polling.url&quot;:&quot;https://${tmHostname}/health/${cdnName}&quot;,
&quot;allow.config.edit&quot;:&quot;false&quot;,
&quot;tm.crConfig.json.polling.url&quot;:&quot;https://${tmHostname}/CRConfig-Snapshots/${cdnName}/CRConfig.json&quot;,
&quot;tm.auth.username&quot;:&quot;admin&quot;,
&quot;peers.polling.url&quot;:&quot;http://${hostname}/publish/CrStates?raw&quot;,
&quot;health.timepad&quot;:&quot;10&quot;,
&quot;hack.publishDsStates&quot;:&quot;true&quot;,
&quot;default.connection.timeout&quot;:&quot;2000&quot;,
&quot;health.ds.interval&quot;:&quot;1000&quot;,
&quot;peers.polling.interval&quot;:&quot;5000&quot;,
&quot;hack.forceSystemExit&quot;:&quot;false&quot;,
&quot;health.ds.leniency&quot;:&quot;30000&quot;,
&quot;cdnName&quot;:&quot;kabletown_cdn&quot;,
&quot;peers.threadPool&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,
&quot;tm.polling.interval&quot;:&quot;10000&quot;,
&quot;health.polling.interval&quot;:&quot;5000&quot;,
&quot;health.event-count&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,
&quot;hack.peerOptimistic&quot;:&quot;true&quot;,
&quot;tm.hostname&quot;:&quot;traffic-ops.cdn.kabletown.net&quot;
}
}
----------------------------------------------
----OK to write this config to disk? (Y/n) [n]y
----------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------
----OK to write this config to disk? (Y/n) [n]Y
----------------------------------------------
DEBUG: Writing /opt/traffic_monitor/conf/traffic_monitor_config.js
traffic_mon #
</pre></div>
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</div></blockquote>
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<li><p class="first">Start Tomcat: <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">sudo</span> <span class="pre">service</span> <span class="pre">tomcat</span> <span class="pre">start</span></code></p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre>Using CATALINA_BASE: /opt/tomcat
Using CATALINA_HOME: /opt/tomcat
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /opt/tomcat/temp
Using JRE_HOME: /usr
Using CLASSPATH:/opt/tomcat/bin/bootstrap.jar
Using CATALINA_PID:/var/run/tomcat/tomcat.pid
Starting tomcat [ OK ]
</pre></div>
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</li>
<li><p class="first">Verify Traffic Monitor is running by pointing your browser to port 80 on the Traffic Monitor host.</p>
</li>
</ol>
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<div class="section" id="configuring-traffic-monitor">
<h2>Configuring Traffic Monitor<a class="headerlink" href="#configuring-traffic-monitor" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<div class="section" id="configuration-overview">
<h3>Configuration Overview<a class="headerlink" href="#configuration-overview" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h3>
<p>Traffic Monitor is configured using its JSON configuration file, <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">traffic_monitor_config.js</span></code>. Specify the URL, username, password, and CDN name for the instance of Traffic Ops for which this Traffic Monitor is a member, and start the software. Once started with the correct configuration, Traffic Monitor downloads its configuration from Traffic Ops and begins polling caches. Once a configurable number of polling cycles completes, health protocol state is available via RESTful JSON endpoints.</p>
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<h2>Troubleshooting and log files<a class="headerlink" href="#troubleshooting-and-log-files" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Traffic Monitor log files are in <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">/opt/traffic_monitor/var/log/</span></code>, and tomcat log files are in <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">/opt/tomcat/logs/</span></code>.</p>
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