Installing¶

Installing Kwapi¶

Clone the Kwapi git repository to the management server:
```
$ git clone https://github.com/stackforge/kwapi.git
```
As a user with root permissions or sudo privileges, run the Kwapi installer and copy the configuration files:
```
$ pip install kwapi
$ cp -r kwapi/etc/kwapi /etc/
```

Running Kwapi services¶

Start the drivers on all the machines that can access wattmeters:
$ kwapi-drivers
Start the forwarder on a remote machine (optional):
$ kwapi-forwarder
Start the API plugin if you want to use Ceilometer:
$ kwapi-api
Start the RRD plugin if you want to display graphs in a web browser:
$ kwapi-rrd