SUNScholar/Disaster Recovery/System Monitor/Server

It is assumed that you will be using the same server for monitoring and backup. To setup munin to gather client statistics, follow the procedure below.

Add a firewall rule to allow the server to get the stats:

ufw allow 4949

To install munin, type the following:

apt-get install munin

Add the clients to the /etc/munin/munin.conf file as follows.

Open the file for editing

nano /etc/munin/munin.conf

Add one of the following for each client:

 [%hostname-of-client%]
    use_node_name yes
    address %ip-address-of-client%

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NANO Editor Help

CTL+O	= Save the file and then press Enter
CTL+X	= Exit "nano"
CTL+K	= Delete line
CTL+U	= Undelete line
CTL+W	= Search for %%string%%
CTL+\	= Search for %%string%% and replace with $$string$$
CTL+C	= Show line numbers

More info = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nano_(text_editor)

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Setup the munin server

munin-check

Wait for about 5 to 10 minutes for munin to gather data and then check out the stats as follows.

Open a web browser and type the following in the address bar:

http://%hostname-of-monitoring-server%/munin

You should get a page like this:

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