The great advantages of having a free and open source software is the wide range of options we have to install hundreds, or thousands, of programs with the objective of increasing the development and productivity capacity of a server. In this regard we have a valuable application called Observium which becomes a powerful monitoring tool that will be useful for our administration tasks both at server and network level..
TechnoWikis will analyze through this tutorial how to install and configure Observium on Debian 9.
What is Observium?
Observium is a platform designed for monitoring self-discovering networks which requires little maintenance, but is capable of supporting a wide range of devices, platforms and operating systems within which we can mention Cisco, Windows, Linux, HP, Juniper, Dell, FreeBSD, Brocade, Netscaler, NetApp and many more.
Observium aims to provide an elegant and powerful but simple and intuitive interface for the entire network management process.
Within its characteristics we have
- Expand visibility: With Observium it will be possible to improve the visibility of the network infrastructure as it allows you to automatically collect and display information about services and protocols that can be difficult to monitor.
- Ease of planning: When using Observium, it will be simple to optimize disaster recovery planning and capacity as it offers us a compilation of long-term network metrics and intuitive visual representations of the collected performance data giving us the possibility of being one step ahead to the events.
- Improves the reliability of the network: Observium can improve the reliability of the network by providing us with the information necessary to proactively respond to a greater number of possible problems and thus seek the respective solutions.
- Extensive device support: Observium is able to support more than 458 types of independent operating systems, including self-detection and graphical representation of device measurements from hundreds of standard MIBs.
- It has the Traffic Accounting function which was designed to facilitate the process of monitoring and billing the use of the client's bandwidth.
- Easy integration: Observium supports integration with a number of third-party applications such as collectd, munin, smoke and RANCID.
Next we will see how to install Observium on Debian 9..
1. Update of the Linux system and installation of required packages [
First we will update the operating system by executing the following commands:
apt-get update -y apt-get upgrade -y
Once updated we can restart the system by executing the reboot command to apply the changes.
Once the system is started, it will be necessary to install some packages that will be fundamental, for this we execute the following:
apt-get install snmp fping python-mysqldb rrdtool subversion whois mtr-tiny ipmitool graphviz imagemagick -y
Note
If we are not as root users it will be necessary to put sudo first to execute each command with the necessary permissions.
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