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News ItemInstalling Zenoss Network Monitor on a Ubuntu Server2006/09/15 - HowtoForge
Original Article: http://www.howtoforge.com/zenoss_network_monitor_ubuntu This tutorial shows how to install and configure the Zenoss network monitoring tool on a Ubuntu 6.06 system. Zenoss is a free open-source tool that allows you to monitor servers, applications, networks, power, etc. regarding their configuration, availability, performance, and so on. It can also alert you by email if it finds inappropriate actions. 1. Install LAMP server from Ubuntu server CD (Dapper+Zenoss min requirements: 150mb+232mb=382mb ram, 1400mb disk (900mb used, 500mb free for data). This install tested on vmware server 1.0.1. 2. Login as default user. Install ssh so you can Putty (remote terminal) from your desktop: sudo apt-get install ssh 3. Putty in and login as default user. Activate root login - required for zenoss and so we don't have to "sudo" everything: sudo passwd root (give new password for root)4. Need to add universe for apt-get use (svn, mysql dev) (using nano for editor): nano /etc/apt/sources.list (uncomment these two lines by removing #) deb http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe deb-src http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe 5. Update to latest Ubuntu: apt-get upgrade 6. Install make, mysql, python development tools for Zenoss. Note that the mysql dev version number is different for each mysql release. The "15" version below is for mysql 5.0.x. Easy way to find your version is run "/etc/init.d/mysql status" . Go to packages.ubuntu.com to check for correct package. apt-get install build-essential (make,cc, etc) 7. Ubuntu server installs using DHCP - we should be using a static IP: nano /etc/network/interfaces 8. Edit hosts file for your new IP address. Assuming you named the server "zenoss" and running in "mydomain.inc", change the second 127.0.0.1 to: 192.168.3.10 zenoss.mydomain.inc zenoss 9. Restart the network: /etc/init.d/networking restart 10. Add zenoss user: adduser zenoss (use zenoss for password if security not an issue) 11. Add zenoss install directory: mkdir /usr/local/zenoss chown zenoss /usr/local/zenoss 12. Login as zenoss user and set up some variables in login script: su zenoss
cd (goto home directory)
nano .bashrc
(add these lines)
export ZENHOME=/usr/local/zenoss
export PYTHONPATH=$ZENHOME/lib/python
export PATH=$ZENHOME/bin:$PATH
13. Some zenoss daemons require root access, so add zenoss to sudo users. Login as root: zenoss monitor = NOPASSWD: /usr/local/zenoss/bin/*,/bin/kill Defaults env_keep += "PYTHONPATH ZENHOME" 14. Zenoss requires the mysql root password to be not blank (default), so we need to change the mysql password. Login as root: /etc/init.d/mysql stop (stop mysql)
nano mysql-init (create a new file and enter this line:)
SET PASSWORD FOR 'root'@'localhost' = PASSWORD('MyNewPassword');
mysqld_safe --init-file=~/mysql-init &
/etc/init.d/mysql start (start mysql)
rm mysql-init
15. Get latest zenoss tarball from this download link . I don't recommend using subversion to download since it gets the latest beta release, not the stable release. To use svn need to download svn first from universe. Login as root: apt-get install svn-buildpackage (only if you want svn) su zenoss (login as zenoss) cd (change to /home/zenoss) (do either) wget http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/zenoss/zenoss-9.99.9.tar.gz tar -xzf zenoss-*.gz (or this) svn co http://dev.zenoss.org/svn/trunk/inst zenossinst (download latest beta to zenossinst subdir) 16. Install zenoss from its install directory. For mysql, use the default root user, with the password you used in step 14. For zenoss password, create a new one: cd zenoss* ./install.sh (cross your fingers) zenoss restart (start up all zen procs) 17. If install fails, cleanup with: make clean 18. If install says successful, browse to zenoss: Go to http:// 192.168.3.10:8080/zport/dmd Username is "admin" Password is the one entered for Zenoss "admin" user in step 16 19. To monitor your zenoss server, install SNMP agent. After installing, you need to configure it to allow 'public' to read all OIDs (default is to read very few OIDs): apt-get install snmpd cp /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf /etc/snmp//snmpd.conf.bak snmpconf (configure snmpd agent to allow public read) cp snmpd.conf /etc/snmp/ /etc/init.d/snmpd restart 20. Default ubuntu mail agent (MTA) is exim4, which may need to be setup if you want email alerts to work with a remote mail server (mail.mydomain.inc): dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config (select default options, except for below) mail sent by smarthost; received via SMTP or fetchmail mail.mydomain.inc 21. To test mail agent, need to install a frontend (MUA - mail) to exim4: apt-get install mailutils mail youremail@yourdomain.inc (press enter for Cc:, type in subject, press enter) (type in body of message, then enter) . (type in single period, then enter, to end composing and email is queued) mailq (to see if mail is sent or still in queue) 22. For Windows monitoring, install SNMP from add/remove Windows monitoring components, then install SNMP-Informant - download the free SNMP for Windows. 23. Read the Zenoss Admin guide . 24. To add zenoss daemons to run at boot up, login as root. Apached runtime is 90, so we use 95 to have it run after it and mysql. Also need to modify zenoss script for ZENHOME path: cp $ZENHOME/bin/zenoss /etc/init.d nano /etc/init.d/zenoss (add the following line to ensure all scripts can find ZENHOME) export ZENHOME=/usr/local/zenoss update-rc.d zenoss 95 25. To test a vmware preconfigured Zenoss (Fedora, not Ubuntu), click here for rBuilder and select recent releases. 26. Thanks to the following useful ubuntu / mysql / zenoss sites: Document Actions |
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