Install and Configure Observium on RHEL/CentOS 7

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Install and Configure Observium on RHEL/CentOS 7

Docs link:https://docs.observium.org/install_rhel/#rhel-centos-7

 We used updated software and required packages

Let,s Start

Introduction

This guide will show you how to perform an Observium installation on an CentOS/RHEL/

We first install Webtatic, OpenNMS, and EPEL repositories on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7.

Repositories

For more extended packagelist, we first install the REMI, OpenNMS and EPEL repositories:

 

 

yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm

yum install http://yum.opennms.org/repofiles/opennms-repo-stable-rhel7.noarch.rpm

yum install http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm

 

Packages

Install yum-utils and switch to REMI's PHP 7.3 packages

 

 

yum install yum-utils

yum-config-manager --enable remi-php73

 

 

Update all installed packages

 

yum update

Now let's install the needed packages for Observium:

yum install wget httpd php php-opcache php-mysql php-gd php-posix php-mcrypt net-snmp net-snmp-utils fping MySQL-python rrdtool subversion jwhois ipmitool graphviz ImageMagick php-pear cronie

 optionals packages:

pear install Net_IPv4-1.3.4

 pear install Net_IPv6-1.2.2b2

Installing MariaDB Server 10.4

To deploy MariaDB Community Server 10.4 on RHEL 7 or CentOS 7, first download and use the mariadb_repo_setup script to configure the MariaDB repositories for YUM:

$ wget https://downloads.mariadb.com/MariaDB/mariadb_repo_setup
$ chmod +x mariadb_repo_setup
$ sudo ./mariadb_repo_setup

To install MariaDB Community Server and dependencies:

sudo yum install MariaDB-server MariaDB-backup

 verify version

php -v

mysql -V
 

Installation and Configuration Steps Observium Server:

Download Observium

First, create a directory for Observium to live in:

mkdir -p /opt/observium && cd /opt

 

Observium Community Edition

please install using the most recent .tar.gz release.

Download the latest .tar.gz of Observium and unpack:

wget http://www.observium.org/observium-community-latest.tar.gz
tar zxvf observium-community-latest.tar.gz

 

MySQL Database

Start MySQL/MariaDB and configure it to be run at startup.

systemctl enable mariadb
systemctl start mariadb

Set the MySQL root password:

/usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'password'
 
 

SHOW GLOBAL VARIABLES LIKE 'version';

 

Create the MySQL database:

mysql -u root -p
CREATE DATABASE observium DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;

CREATE USER 'observium'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON observium.* TO 'observium'@'localhost'; 
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit;

SELinux

how to make Observium work within it is beyond the scope of this guide, so we will disable it. If you are competent enough to maintain SELinux, then that is possible too, but is an even more unsupported configuration than RHEL/CentOS themselves.

Firstly, disable SELinux. You can do this temporarily with the following command:

setenforce 0

open ‘/etc/sysconfig/selinux‘ file and change the option from ‘permissive‘ to ‘disabled‘.

nano /etc/sysconfig/selinux

SELINUX=permissive

TO

SELINUX=disabled  

Observium Configuration

Change into the new install directory:

cd observium

Copy the default configuration file and edit it for your system:

cp config.php.default config.php
 
You must change the MySQL username and password 

// Database config

$config['db_host'] = 'localhost';

$config['db_user'] = 'observium';

$config['db_pass'] = 'password';    

 

$config['db_name'] = 'observium';

 

Cd /opt/observium

 ./discovery.php -u

Insert MySQL Schema

Run the discovery.php script with the upgrade switch -u in order to insert the initial MySQL schema

./discovery.php -u

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Fping

Since Fping is in a different location, add a line to config.php to tell Observium.

[root@ipcon]# which fping
/sbin/fping

Add the following under nano/opt/observium/config.php

$config['fping'] = "/sbin/fping";

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System

Create the rrd directory to store RRDs in:

  chown apache:apache rrd

Configure Apache for Observium

Create a ‘rrd‘ directory under ‘/opt/observium‘ directory for storing RRD’s.

cd /opt/observium
 mkdir rrd

Next, grant Apache ownership to ‘rrd‘ directory to write and store RRD’s under this directory.

chown -R apache:apache rrd

To maintain observium logs, create a ‘logs‘ directory for Apache under ‘/opt/observium‘ and apply Apache ownership to write logs.

mkdir /opt/observium/logs
chown apache:apache /opt/observium/logs
 
 

Create a Apache Virtual Host directive for Obervium in ‘/etc/httpd/conf.d/httpd.conf‘ file.

 nano /etc/httpd/conf.d/observium.conf

Add the following Virtual Host directive at the bottom of the file and enable Virtualhost section as shown in the screenshot below.

Default port 80 I made change 80 to 8008 fo apache web server

<VirtualHost *:8008>
DocumentRoot /opt/observium/html/
ServerName IP_ADDRESS_OF_OBSERVIUM
CustomLog /opt/observium/logs/access_log combined
     ErrorLog /opt/observium/logs/error_log
     AllowEncodedSlashes NoDecode
    <Directory "/opt/observium/html/">
         Require all granted
         AllowOverride All
         Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Set time zone in php.ini file.

For CentOS / RHEL: /etc/php.ini

After all settings, restart Apache service.

service httpd restart

Add a first user, use level of 10 for admin:

cd /opt/observium
./adduser.php <username> <password> <level>
 

i.e

./adduser.php admin admin@123 10
 

Configure snmpd

cp /opt/observium/snmpd.conf.example /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf
vi /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf
 

 

Cron

Add cron jobs, create a new file /etc/cron.d/observium with the following contents:

# Run a complete discovery of all devices once every 6 hours
33  */6 * * *   root    /opt/observium/discovery.php -h all >> /dev/null 2>&1
 
# Run automated discovery of newly added devices every 5 minutes
*/5 * * * *   root    /opt/observium/discovery.php -h new >> /dev/null 2>&1
 
# Run multithreaded poller wrapper every 5 minutes
*/5 * * * *   root    /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py >> /dev/null 2>&1
 
# Run housekeeping script daily for syslog, eventlog and alert log
13 5 * * * root /opt/observium/housekeeping.php -ysel
 
# Run housekeeping script daily for rrds, ports, orphaned entries in the database and performance data
47 4 * * * root /opt/observium/housekeeping.php -yrptb

 

And reload the cron process:

systemctl reload crond
 

Final Points

Let's set the httpd to startup when we reboot the server:

systemctl enable httpd
systemctl start httpd
 
and 
 

chkconfig mysqld on

chkconfig httpd on

 

Permit HTTP through the server's default firewall

firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=http
firewall-cmd --add-port=8008/tcp --permanent
firewall-cmd --reload
Add a first device to monitor:
 
 
./add_device.php 192.168.88.126 observium v2c
Do an initial discovery and polling run to populate the data for the new device:
 
 
./discovery.php -h all
./poller.php -h all
 
 
 

 

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