HOW TO INSTALL OPSVIEW ON CENTOS 5.5

HOW TO INSTALL OPSVIEW 3.0 on CENTOS 5.5

1.  INSTALLATION:

1.  Register for an account and make a note of the username and password as these may be required later in the process.

2. Establish a terminal session to your Centos server, do not log in as root at this moment.

3. Download an “RPMforge” package applicable to your distribution from the link here. Once downloaded, install via “rpm -ivh rpmfor….rpm”. Create repo file: “nano /etc/yum.repos.d/opsview.repo” and add the following:

[opsview]

name = Opsview

baseurl = https://downloads.opsview.com/k/<REPOSITORY_KEY>/opsview-commercial/latest/yum/centos/<OS>/$basearch

enabled = 1

protect = 0

gpgcheck = 0

Where REPOSITORY_KEY is the key emailed to you,  and <OS> is either 5 or 6 depending on your distribution. For reference, an example key is: 5bbd5667b498d81af9c2311d871858b26fe0024b

Use command to install opsview

yum install opsview

Or

Download the Below RPM from opsview repository & install 

http://www.opsview.com/technology/downloads/   (download rpm from this link after register on the site and download required rpm)

User below command to install rpm

rpm –ivh  lua-rrdtool-1.4.3-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

 lua-rrdtool-1.4.3-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

 mod_auth_tkt_opsview-2.0.5rc3-1.i386.rpm

 opsview-3.20130903.0.13498-1.ct5.i386.rpm

opsview-agent-4.4.1.345-1.ct5.i386.rpm

 opsview-base-4.4.1.345-1.ct5.i386.rpm

opsview-compatibility-check-3.20130903.0.13498-1.ct5.noarch.rpm

 opsview-core-3.20130903.0.13498-1.ct5.i386.rpm

 opsview-perl-4.4.0.792-1.ct5.i386.rpm

 opsview-slave-3.20130903.0.13498-1.ct5.i386.rpm

 opsview-web-3.20130903.0.13498-1.ct5.i386.rpm

 perl-5.8.8-40.el5_9.i386.rpm

 perl-rrdtool-1.4.4-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

 rrdtool-1.2.29-1.el5.rf.ppc.rpm

 rrdtool-1.4.7-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

4. Install thee mysql server

yum Install mysql*

5. Next, start MySQL and set the root password via

 “/etc/init.d/mysqld start” and “mysqladmin -u root -p password opsview”.

6. To start MySQL at boot, run the command “chkconfig --level 345 mysqld on

7. Now, we will drop into the user “nagios” and set the user environment correctly:

su – nagios

test -f /usr/local/nagios/bin/profile && . /usr/local/nagios/bin/profile

exit

8. Next we need to edit the opsview.conf file, “vi/usr/local/nagios/etc/opsview.conf”. In my opsview.conf for example, I changed all the “changeme” values to “opsview”, as that was what I set my MySQL root password to.

# This file overrides variables from opsview.defaults

# This file will not be overwritten on upgrades

#

$dbuser = “root”

$dbpasswd = "opsview";    

$runtime_dbpassword = “root”

$runtime_dbpasswd = "opsview";

1;

:wq (Save & exit)

9.    change mysql root password

       Mysql –u root

mysql > show databases;   (check database which are install)

mysql> user mysql;

mysql> UPDATE user SET Password=PASSWORD('opsview') WHERE User='root';

10. Generate the grants to my sql user.

mysql> GRANT ALL ON *.* TO 'root'@'localhost' ;

11. Install the required databases

/usr/local/nagios/bin/db_opsview db_install

/usr/local/nagios/bin/db_runtime db_install

12. Generate all the necessary configuration files:

/usr/local/nagios/bin/rc.opsview gen_config

OR

/etc/init.d/opsview gen_config

You can now start up the web application server:

/etc/init.d/opsview-web start

The Opsview server is now listening on port 3000, i.e. http://localhost:3000/

2. Using Apache as a proxy server

The performance of Opsview will be significantly improved by using Apache at the front end. All the following commands should be run as root.

1. Edit the apache configuration files and enable proxy_html

cd /etc/httpd/conf

vi httpd.conf

Ensure the line "LoadModule proxy_http_module modules/mod_proxy_http.so" is uncommented

2. Copy in the example Apache configuration file and edit to suite your needs

cd /etc/httpd/conf.d

cp /usr/local/nagios/installer/apache_proxy.conf opsview.conf

vi opsview.conf

You may need to comment out the DocumentRoot variable in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf.

3. Amend the apache web server user group membership to include nagcmd group

usermod -G nagcmd apache

Check to ensure the apache user is correct for your web software.

If you use a centralized user management system, you may need to amend /etc/group manually. To test that the permissions are set correctly, run id apache and look for the nagcmd group.

4. Restart Apache

/etc/init.d/httpd restart

You can now access Opsview at http://localhost/

3. Logging in

Once Opsview has been installed, a single administrative user will have been created. The credentials for this user are:

username: admin

password: initial

You should change this password to prevent unauthorized access to Opsview - this can be done from 'Administrator' link in the top right of the page.

4. Troubleshooting

Apache: 503 server temporarily unavailable

If you try to connect to: “http://your.server/” you may be greeted with a 503 server temporarily unavailable error. Go to the command line and enter:

setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect=1