Installing a Sensu client
Once you have installed the Sensu server, you need to install the Sensu client to run checks and report the data back to the server. The Sensu client subscribes to the RabbitMQ virtual host and listens for checks to be published in a subscription to which the client belongs. When a check is published, the client runs the assigned check and publishes the results back onto the RabbitMQ; from here, the Sensu server then processes the check results.
Getting ready
For this recipe, you will need an Ubuntu 14.04 client to act as the Sensu client and a Sensu server to connect to.
How to do it…
The following steps show you how to install the Sensu Core package and how to configure the Sensu client.
- The Sensu Core package used to install ...
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