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Verifying the system

Verifying the system

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Verifying the system

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- [Instructor] In this video, we will walk through verifying all the components of our Graphite installation and setup. First we can check the network settings on our machine to ensure that Carbon Cache is up and running. We'll do this by typing sudo netstat -tulpn. Ooh, with a dash, tulpn, with a pipe, grep 2003, and hit Enter. Here we see that Carbon Cache is running on its default port of 2003. Next we can send data directly to Carbon and ensure that it is being received correctly. To send data, we will type echo, with quotes, email underscore sending dot emails dot sent, with a space, 300, and then we will also add the date for our timestamp. We will pipe this into netcat and set it to localhost on port 2003. Once we've sent this test data over, we can search on disk for the associated whisper file. Searching the whisper root in our setup located at /var/lib/graphite/whisper/, we see that the email sending directory has been created. And in fact, the emails directory has also been…

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