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==[[SUNScholar/Disaster Recovery/System Monitor/Server|Server Setup]]==
 
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==Client Setup==
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==[[SUNScholar/Disaster Recovery/System Monitor/Client|Client Setup]]==
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Login and become the root user.
 
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[[SUNScholar/Disaster_Recovery/Preparation|Click here to create a PostgreSQL credentials file.]] Then continue.
 
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Install munin as follows:
 
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apt-get install libdbd-pg-perl
 
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apt-get install munin-node
 
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Setup munin to allow the monitoring server to gather statistics as follow:
 
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nano /etc/munin/munin-node.conf
 
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Add the following to the bottom of the file:
 
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allow $ip-address-of-monitoring-server%
 
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Change the following:
 
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host_name %hostname-of-client%
 
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Save the file.
 
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Run the following command to check to update stats available:
 
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munin-node-configure --shell | bash -
 
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Check which stats are available
 
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cd /etc/munin/plugins
 
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Add a firewall rule to allow the monitoring server to get the stats:
 
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ufw allow 4949
 
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Thats it. As usual there is a lot of documentation about Munin out there.
 

Revision as of 11:46, 31 August 2012

Introduction

Now that you have a large number of servers you would like to know how they are performing and be informed of potential problems. At our library we use munin to do this.

Server Setup

Client Setup

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