Today we will be installing Observium.
Observium is a Network Management and Monitoring System that collects data from multiple devices using SNMP and allows you to monitor all of the networks devices via an easy to use interface. It is PHP-based and uses a MySQL database to store data.
Note
This guide works with Ubuntu 13.10 to 15.04 and Debian 7.
Install
Connect to your server via SSH
ssh [email protected]
Install Dependencies
sudo apt-get -y install libapache2-mod-php5 php5-cli php5-mysql php5-gd php5-mcrypt php5-json php-pear snmp fping mysql-server mysql-client python-mysqldb rrdtool subversion whois mtr-tiny ipmitool graphviz imagemagick
Enter the Mysql password for the root user. Note: For security make this one different than your server’s password, and try not to use this user in any application that requires a database to store and pull data from.
Download and Extract Observium
sudo mkdir -p /opt/observium
cd /opt
sudo wget http://www.observium.org/observium-community-latest.tar.gz
sudo tar zxvf observium-community-latest.tar.gz
Configuration
create the MYSQL database and user
Enter your MySQL password that you gave the root user from before
mysql -u root -p
Once in MySQL enter the following commands to create the database, the user and to allow the user access to the database.
CREATE DATABASE observium DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
Make sure to change the Observium database password with your own, you will need this in the next step.
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON observium.* TO 'observium'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'observium db password';
exit
Changing the config file
cd observium
sudo cp config.php.default config.php
Change the setting on the config.php to reflect your systems settings
sudo nano config.php
Set the username and password on the observium config file and an email address for alerts to get sent to.
