Observium:
A Complete Network Management and Monitoring System for Linux
==========================================
Observium is a PHP/MySQL driven Network Observation and Monitoring application, that supports a wide range of operating systems/hardware platforms including, Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, Cisco, HP, Dell, NetApp and many more. It seeks to present a robust and simple web interface to monitor health and performance of your network.Observium gathers data from devices with the help of SNMP and display those data in graphical pattern via a web interface. It makes hefty use of the RRDtool package. It has a number of thin core design goals, which includes collecting as much historical information about devices, being totally auto-discovered with slight or no manual interruption, and having a very simple yet powerful interface.
Observium gathers data from devices with the help of SNMP and display those data in graphical pattern via a web interface. It makes hefty use of the RRDtool package. It has a number of thin core design goals, which includes collecting as much historical information about devices, being totally auto-discovered with slight or no manual interruption, and having a very simple yet powerful interface.
Step 1: Adding RPM Forge and EPEL Repositories
# yum install wget
# wget http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.rpm
# wget http://epel.mirror.net.in/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
# wget http://apt.sw.be/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
# rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
# rpm -Uvh rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.rpm
# rpm -Uvh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
Step 2: Install Needed Software Packages
yum install php php-mysql php-gd php-snmp vixie-cron php-mcrypt php-pear net-snmp net-snmp-utils graphviz subversion mysql-server mysql rrdtool fping ImageMagick jwhois nmap ipmitool php-pear.noarch MySQL-python
Step 3:If you wish to monitor virtual machines, please install ‘libvirt‘ package.
# yum install libvirt
Download Observium
First, create a directory for Observium to live in:
Step 4: mkdir -p /opt/observium && cd /opt
Observium Editions
Observium comes in two editions, an Open Source Community Edition released on a 6 month cycle, and a Subscription Edition with additional features, rapid bug fixes and feature improvements on a daily basis and an easy to use SVN-based update mechanism.
Observium Community Edition (I am installing open source ..)
If you would like to install the Community Edition, please install using the most recent .tar.gz release.
Download the latest .tar.gz of Observium and unpack:
Step 5:wget http://www.observium.org/observium-community-latest.tar.gz
Step 6:tar zxvf observium-community-latest.tar.gz
Configuration
Change into the new install directory:
Step 7:cd observium
Copy the default configuration file and edit it for your system:
Step 8: cp -rv config.php.default config.php
Edit config.php. Change the options to reflect your installation.
Step 9:Now open ‘config.php‘ file and enter MySQL details such as database name, username and password.
# vi config.php
// Database config
$config['db_host'] = 'localhost';
$config['db_user'] = 'observium';
$config['db_pass'] = 'dbpassword';
$config['db_name'] = 'observium';
Then add an entry for fping binary location to config.php. In RHEL distribution the location is different.
$config['fping'] = "/usr/sbin/fping";
Step 10:MySQL Credentials
You must change the MySQL username and password. Most other settings can be left as default.
MySQL Database
Create the MySQL database:
#mysql -u root -p
<mysql root password>
mysql> CREATE DATABASE observium DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON observium.* TO 'observium'@'localhost'
-> IDENTIFIED BY '<observium db password>';
Setup the MySQL database and insert the default schema:
Step 11:php includes/update/update.php
It is OK to have some errors in the SQL revisions
Step 12 :
We need to disable SELinux permanently, so you also need to change /etc/selinux/config so that the SELINUX option is set to permissive
SELINUX=permissive
#setenforce 0
Step 13: Configure Apache for Observium
Now create a ‘rrd‘ directory under ‘/opt/observium‘ directory for storing RRD’s.
# /opt/observium
# mkdir rrd
Next, grant Apache ownership to ‘rrd‘ directory to write and store RRD’s under this directory.
# chown apache:apache rrd
Create a Apache Virtual Host directive for Obervium in ‘/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf‘ file.
# vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
Add the following Virtual Host directive at the bottom of the file and enable Virtualhost section as shown in the screenshot below.
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /opt/observium/html/
ServerName observium.domain.com
CustomLog /opt/observium/logs/access_log combined
ErrorLog /opt/observium/logs/error_log
<Directory "/opt/observium/html/">
AllowOverride All
Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
To maintain observium logs, create a ‘logs‘ directory for Apache under ‘/op/observium‘ and apply Apache ownership to write logs.
# mkdir /opt/observium/logs
# chown apache:apache /opt/observium/logs
After all settings, restart Apache service.
# service httpd restart
Step 14: Create Observium Admin User
Add a first user, give level of 10 for admin. Make sure to replace username and password with your choice.
# cd /opt/observium
# ./adduser.php admin Firstcry@123 10
User tecmint added successfully.
Next add a New Device and run following commands to populate the data for new device.
Next set a cron jobs, create a new file ‘/etc/cron.d/observium‘ and add the following contents.
33 */6 * * * root /opt/observium/discovery.php -h all >> /dev/null 2>&1
*/5 * * * * root /opt/observium/discovery.php -h new >> /dev/null 2>&1
*/5 * * * * root /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py 1 >> /dev/null 2>&1
Reload cron process to take new entries.
# /etc/init.d/cron reload
The final step is to add httpd and mysqld services system-wide, to automatically start after system boot.
Next set a cron jobs, create a new file ‘/etc/cron.d/observium‘ and add the following contents.
33 */6 * * * root /opt/observium/discovery.php -h all >> /dev/null 2>&1
*/5 * * * * root /opt/observium/discovery.php -h new >> /dev/null 2>&1
*/5 * * * * root /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py 1 >> /dev/null 2>&1
Reload cron process to take new entries.
# /etc/init.d/cron reload
The final step is to add httpd and mysqld services system-wide, to automatically start after system boot.
########################################add Client Machine#######################################
you can see output from following commnad for testing
On server side you need to configuer follwing things
vim /etc/hosts
#you need add hosts name and ip address in this file,because observium only
172.31.9.134 awshaproxy1.firstcry.net awshaproxy1
snmpwalk -v 2c -c public -O e 172.31.9.134 ------>>remote client machanine ip adrress
###### On client centos6 machine
yum install snmpd
yum install snmp
netstat -a | grep snmp
snmpwalk -v 2c -c public -O e localhost
yum install net-snmp-utils
you need create this file /usr/bin/distro
[root@ip-172-31-9-134 ec2-user]# cat /usr/bin/distro
#!/bin/sh
# Detects which OS and if it is Linux then it will detect which Linux Distribution.
OS=`uname -s`
REV=`uname -r`
MACH=`uname -m`
if [ "${OS}" = "SunOS" ] ; then
OS=Solaris
ARCH=`uname -p`
OSSTR="${OS} ${REV}(${ARCH} `uname -v`)"
elif [ "${OS}" = "AIX" ] ; then
OSSTR="${OS} `oslevel` (`oslevel -r`)"
elif [ "${OS}" = "Linux" ] ; then
KERNEL=`uname -r`
if [ -f /etc/redhat-release ] ; then
DIST=$(cat /etc/redhat-release | awk '{print $1}')
if [ "${DIST}" = "CentOS" ]; then
DIST="CentOS"
elif [ "${DIST}" = "Mandriva" ]; then
DIST="Mandriva"
PSEUDONAME=`cat /etc/mandriva-release | sed s/.*\(// | sed s/\)//`
REV=`cat /etc/mandriva-release | sed s/.*release\ // | sed s/\ .*//`
elif [ "${DIST}" = "Fedora" ]; then
DIST="Fedora"
else
DIST="RedHat"
fi
PSEUDONAME=`cat /etc/redhat-release | sed s/.*\(// | sed s/\)//`
REV=`cat /etc/redhat-release | sed s/.*release\ // | sed s/\ .*//`
elif [ -f /etc/SuSE-release ] ; then
DIST=`cat /etc/SuSE-release | tr "\n" ' '| sed s/VERSION.*//`
REV=`cat /etc/SuSE-release | tr "\n" ' ' | sed s/.*=\ //`
elif [ -f /etc/mandrake-release ] ; then
DIST='Mandrake'
PSEUDONAME=`cat /etc/mandrake-release | sed s/.*\(// | sed s/\)//`
REV=`cat /etc/mandrake-release | sed s/.*release\ // | sed s/\ .*//`
elif [ -f /etc/debian_version ] ; then
if [ -f /etc/mailcleaner/etc/mailcleaner/version.def ] ; then
DIST="MailCleaner"
REV=`cat /etc/mailcleaner/etc/mailcleaner/version.def`
else
DIST="Debian `cat /etc/debian_version`"
REV=""
fi
fi
if [ -f /etc/UnitedLinux-release ] ; then
DIST="${DIST}[`cat /etc/UnitedLinux-release | tr "\n" ' ' | sed s/VERSION.*//`]"
fi
if [ -f /etc/lsb-release ] ; then
LSB_DIST="`cat /etc/lsb-release | grep DISTRIB_ID | cut -d "=" -f2`"
LSB_REV="`cat /etc/lsb-release | grep DISTRIB_RELEASE | cut -d "=" -f2`"
if [ "$LSB_DIST" != "" ] ; then
DIST=$LSB_DIST
REV=$LSB_REV
fi
fi
# OSSTR="${OS} ${DIST} ${REV}(${PSEUDONAME} ${KERNEL} ${MACH})"
OSSTR="${DIST} ${REV}"
elif [ "${OS}" = "Darwin" ] ; then
if [ -f /usr/bin/sw_vers ] ; then
OSSTR=`/usr/bin/sw_vers|grep -v Build|sed 's/^.*:.//'| tr "\n" ' '`
fi
fi
echo ${OSSTR}
[root@ip-172-31-9-134 ec2-user]#
###################################
[root@ip-172-31-9-134 ec2-user]# cat /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf
com2sec readonly default public
group MyROGroup v1 readonly
group MyROGroup v2c readonly
group MyROGroup usm readonly
view all included .1 80
access MyROGroup "" any noauth exact all none none
syslocation AWS-Linux,
syscontact namdev.rathod@firstcry.com
#This line allows Observium to detect the host OS if the distro script is installed
extend .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.7890.1 distro /usr/bin/distro
[root@ip-172-31-9-134 ec2-user]#/etc/init.d/snmpd restart
##########################################
How To Change Login Images and Name:
go to /opt/observium/html/images/
mv login-hamster-large.png login-hamster-large.png-bak
and put your image with name "login-hamster-large.png"
and go to /opt/observium/html/pages/
please check with logon.inc.php file coding.
service httpd restart/reload
##################################################################
A Complete Network Management and Monitoring System for Linux
==========================================
Observium is a PHP/MySQL driven Network Observation and Monitoring application, that supports a wide range of operating systems/hardware platforms including, Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, Cisco, HP, Dell, NetApp and many more. It seeks to present a robust and simple web interface to monitor health and performance of your network.Observium gathers data from devices with the help of SNMP and display those data in graphical pattern via a web interface. It makes hefty use of the RRDtool package. It has a number of thin core design goals, which includes collecting as much historical information about devices, being totally auto-discovered with slight or no manual interruption, and having a very simple yet powerful interface.
Observium gathers data from devices with the help of SNMP and display those data in graphical pattern via a web interface. It makes hefty use of the RRDtool package. It has a number of thin core design goals, which includes collecting as much historical information about devices, being totally auto-discovered with slight or no manual interruption, and having a very simple yet powerful interface.
Step 1: Adding RPM Forge and EPEL Repositories
# yum install wget
# wget http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.rpm
# wget http://epel.mirror.net.in/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
# wget http://apt.sw.be/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
# rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
# rpm -Uvh rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.rpm
# rpm -Uvh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
Step 2: Install Needed Software Packages
yum install php php-mysql php-gd php-snmp vixie-cron php-mcrypt php-pear net-snmp net-snmp-utils graphviz subversion mysql-server mysql rrdtool fping ImageMagick jwhois nmap ipmitool php-pear.noarch MySQL-python
Step 3:If you wish to monitor virtual machines, please install ‘libvirt‘ package.
# yum install libvirt
Download Observium
First, create a directory for Observium to live in:
Step 4: mkdir -p /opt/observium && cd /opt
Observium Editions
Observium comes in two editions, an Open Source Community Edition released on a 6 month cycle, and a Subscription Edition with additional features, rapid bug fixes and feature improvements on a daily basis and an easy to use SVN-based update mechanism.
Observium Community Edition (I am installing open source ..)
If you would like to install the Community Edition, please install using the most recent .tar.gz release.
Download the latest .tar.gz of Observium and unpack:
Step 5:wget http://www.observium.org/observium-community-latest.tar.gz
Step 6:tar zxvf observium-community-latest.tar.gz
Configuration
Change into the new install directory:
Step 7:cd observium
Copy the default configuration file and edit it for your system:
Step 8: cp -rv config.php.default config.php
Edit config.php. Change the options to reflect your installation.
Step 9:Now open ‘config.php‘ file and enter MySQL details such as database name, username and password.
# vi config.php
// Database config
$config['db_host'] = 'localhost';
$config['db_user'] = 'observium';
$config['db_pass'] = 'dbpassword';
$config['db_name'] = 'observium';
Then add an entry for fping binary location to config.php. In RHEL distribution the location is different.
$config['fping'] = "/usr/sbin/fping";
Step 10:MySQL Credentials
You must change the MySQL username and password. Most other settings can be left as default.
MySQL Database
Create the MySQL database:
#mysql -u root -p
<mysql root password>
mysql> CREATE DATABASE observium DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON observium.* TO 'observium'@'localhost'
-> IDENTIFIED BY '<observium db password>';
Setup the MySQL database and insert the default schema:
Step 11:php includes/update/update.php
It is OK to have some errors in the SQL revisions
Step 12 :
We need to disable SELinux permanently, so you also need to change /etc/selinux/config so that the SELINUX option is set to permissive
SELINUX=permissive
#setenforce 0
Step 13: Configure Apache for Observium
Now create a ‘rrd‘ directory under ‘/opt/observium‘ directory for storing RRD’s.
# /opt/observium
# mkdir rrd
Next, grant Apache ownership to ‘rrd‘ directory to write and store RRD’s under this directory.
# chown apache:apache rrd
Create a Apache Virtual Host directive for Obervium in ‘/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf‘ file.
# vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
Add the following Virtual Host directive at the bottom of the file and enable Virtualhost section as shown in the screenshot below.
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /opt/observium/html/
ServerName observium.domain.com
CustomLog /opt/observium/logs/access_log combined
ErrorLog /opt/observium/logs/error_log
<Directory "/opt/observium/html/">
AllowOverride All
Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
To maintain observium logs, create a ‘logs‘ directory for Apache under ‘/op/observium‘ and apply Apache ownership to write logs.
# mkdir /opt/observium/logs
# chown apache:apache /opt/observium/logs
After all settings, restart Apache service.
# service httpd restart
Step 14: Create Observium Admin User
Add a first user, give level of 10 for admin. Make sure to replace username and password with your choice.
# cd /opt/observium
# ./adduser.php admin Firstcry@123 10
User tecmint added successfully.
Next add a New Device and run following commands to populate the data for new device.
Next set a cron jobs, create a new file ‘/etc/cron.d/observium‘ and add the following contents.
33 */6 * * * root /opt/observium/discovery.php -h all >> /dev/null 2>&1
*/5 * * * * root /opt/observium/discovery.php -h new >> /dev/null 2>&1
*/5 * * * * root /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py 1 >> /dev/null 2>&1
Reload cron process to take new entries.
# /etc/init.d/cron reload
The final step is to add httpd and mysqld services system-wide, to automatically start after system boot.
Next set a cron jobs, create a new file ‘/etc/cron.d/observium‘ and add the following contents.
33 */6 * * * root /opt/observium/discovery.php -h all >> /dev/null 2>&1
*/5 * * * * root /opt/observium/discovery.php -h new >> /dev/null 2>&1
*/5 * * * * root /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py 1 >> /dev/null 2>&1
Reload cron process to take new entries.
# /etc/init.d/cron reload
The final step is to add httpd and mysqld services system-wide, to automatically start after system boot.
########################################add Client Machine#######################################
you can see output from following commnad for testing
On server side you need to configuer follwing things
vim /etc/hosts
#you need add hosts name and ip address in this file,because observium only
172.31.9.134 awshaproxy1.firstcry.net awshaproxy1
snmpwalk -v 2c -c public -O e 172.31.9.134 ------>>remote client machanine ip adrress
###### On client centos6 machine
yum install snmpd
yum install snmp
netstat -a | grep snmp
snmpwalk -v 2c -c public -O e localhost
yum install net-snmp-utils
you need create this file /usr/bin/distro
[root@ip-172-31-9-134 ec2-user]# cat /usr/bin/distro
#!/bin/sh
# Detects which OS and if it is Linux then it will detect which Linux Distribution.
OS=`uname -s`
REV=`uname -r`
MACH=`uname -m`
if [ "${OS}" = "SunOS" ] ; then
OS=Solaris
ARCH=`uname -p`
OSSTR="${OS} ${REV}(${ARCH} `uname -v`)"
elif [ "${OS}" = "AIX" ] ; then
OSSTR="${OS} `oslevel` (`oslevel -r`)"
elif [ "${OS}" = "Linux" ] ; then
KERNEL=`uname -r`
if [ -f /etc/redhat-release ] ; then
DIST=$(cat /etc/redhat-release | awk '{print $1}')
if [ "${DIST}" = "CentOS" ]; then
DIST="CentOS"
elif [ "${DIST}" = "Mandriva" ]; then
DIST="Mandriva"
PSEUDONAME=`cat /etc/mandriva-release | sed s/.*\(// | sed s/\)//`
REV=`cat /etc/mandriva-release | sed s/.*release\ // | sed s/\ .*//`
elif [ "${DIST}" = "Fedora" ]; then
DIST="Fedora"
else
DIST="RedHat"
fi
PSEUDONAME=`cat /etc/redhat-release | sed s/.*\(// | sed s/\)//`
REV=`cat /etc/redhat-release | sed s/.*release\ // | sed s/\ .*//`
elif [ -f /etc/SuSE-release ] ; then
DIST=`cat /etc/SuSE-release | tr "\n" ' '| sed s/VERSION.*//`
REV=`cat /etc/SuSE-release | tr "\n" ' ' | sed s/.*=\ //`
elif [ -f /etc/mandrake-release ] ; then
DIST='Mandrake'
PSEUDONAME=`cat /etc/mandrake-release | sed s/.*\(// | sed s/\)//`
REV=`cat /etc/mandrake-release | sed s/.*release\ // | sed s/\ .*//`
elif [ -f /etc/debian_version ] ; then
if [ -f /etc/mailcleaner/etc/mailcleaner/version.def ] ; then
DIST="MailCleaner"
REV=`cat /etc/mailcleaner/etc/mailcleaner/version.def`
else
DIST="Debian `cat /etc/debian_version`"
REV=""
fi
fi
if [ -f /etc/UnitedLinux-release ] ; then
DIST="${DIST}[`cat /etc/UnitedLinux-release | tr "\n" ' ' | sed s/VERSION.*//`]"
fi
if [ -f /etc/lsb-release ] ; then
LSB_DIST="`cat /etc/lsb-release | grep DISTRIB_ID | cut -d "=" -f2`"
LSB_REV="`cat /etc/lsb-release | grep DISTRIB_RELEASE | cut -d "=" -f2`"
if [ "$LSB_DIST" != "" ] ; then
DIST=$LSB_DIST
REV=$LSB_REV
fi
fi
# OSSTR="${OS} ${DIST} ${REV}(${PSEUDONAME} ${KERNEL} ${MACH})"
OSSTR="${DIST} ${REV}"
elif [ "${OS}" = "Darwin" ] ; then
if [ -f /usr/bin/sw_vers ] ; then
OSSTR=`/usr/bin/sw_vers|grep -v Build|sed 's/^.*:.//'| tr "\n" ' '`
fi
fi
echo ${OSSTR}
[root@ip-172-31-9-134 ec2-user]#
###################################
[root@ip-172-31-9-134 ec2-user]# cat /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf
com2sec readonly default public
group MyROGroup v1 readonly
group MyROGroup v2c readonly
group MyROGroup usm readonly
view all included .1 80
access MyROGroup "" any noauth exact all none none
syslocation AWS-Linux,
syscontact namdev.rathod@firstcry.com
#This line allows Observium to detect the host OS if the distro script is installed
extend .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.7890.1 distro /usr/bin/distro
[root@ip-172-31-9-134 ec2-user]#/etc/init.d/snmpd restart
##########################################
How To Change Login Images and Name:
go to /opt/observium/html/images/
mv login-hamster-large.png login-hamster-large.png-bak
and put your image with name "login-hamster-large.png"
and go to /opt/observium/html/pages/
please check with logon.inc.php file coding.
service httpd restart/reload
##################################################################
