sovereign/roles/monitoring/tasks/collectd.yml

- name: Install collectd
  apt: pkg=collectd state=installed

- name: Copy collectd configuration file into place
  template: src=etc_collectd_collectd.conf.j2 dest=/etc/collectd/collectd.conf
  notify: restart collectd

- name: Ensure collectd is started
  service: name=collectd state=started

# Work around https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-core/issues/915
# otherwise we'd use enabled=yes in previous task
- name: Ensure collectd is enabled
  command: update-rc.d collectd enable creates=/etc/rc3.d/S03collectd