OMD Server Installation
For more information on Open Monitor Distribution, visit omdistro.org
Description:
OMD bundles Nagios together with many important addons and can easily be installed on
every major Linux distribution. We provide prebuilt packages for all enterprise Linux
distributions and also for some other, such as Ubuntu.
OMD currently comes with the following software:
Nagios
Monitoring Plugins (Former known as Nagios-Plugins)
nsca, check_nrpe, Icinga, Shinken, NagVis, pnp4nagios, rrdtool/rrdcached
Check_MK, MK Livestatus, Multisite, Dokuwiki, Thruk, Mod-Gearman
check_logfiles, check_oracle_health, check_mysql_health, jmx4perl
check_webinject, check_multi
Pre-Requisites:
Install the packages that are needed to support OMD
COMPATABILITY NOTICE:
These instructions are only compatible with Debian 
and Ubuntu 
Although OMD can be installed on CentOS 7/RHEL 7, the site does
not come up clean, and extensive troubleshooting is required to compile
non RPM bundled dependancies such as mod_python.
apt-get update
apt-get -y install postfix mailutils vim python-mysqldb
Patch and Fix postfix:
sed -i 's/inet_interfaces\ =\ localhost/inet_interfaces\ =\ all/g' /etc/postfix/main.cf
systemctl restart postfix.service
echo "This is the body of the email" | mail -s "This is the subject line" user@yourcompany.com
Import the GPG key:
wget -q "https://labs.consol.de/repo/stable/RPM-GPG-KEY" -O - | sudo apt-key add -
Install the repo:
Install the labs.consol.de repository for the official OMD packages.
You can take a look at all of the available repositories on labs.consol.de
labs.consol.de
Debian Jessie:
echo "deb http://labs.consol.de/repo/stable/debian $(lsb_release -cs) main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/labs-consol-stable.list
apt-get update
Ubuntu > 15.04:
echo "deb http://labs.consol.de/repo/stable/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/labs-consol-stable.list
apt-get update
Install OMD:
Install the official Open Monitor Distribution packages
apt-get install -y omd
root@omdserver:~# omd
Usage (called as root):
omd help Show general help
omd setup Prepare operating system for OMD (installs packages)
omd uninstall Remove OMD and all sites!
omd setversion VERSION Sets the default version of OMD which will be used by new sites
omd version [SITE] Show version of OMD
omd versions List installed OMD versions
omd sites Show list of sites
omd create SITE Create a new site (-u UID, -g GID)
omd init SITE Populate site directory with default files and enable the site
omd rm SITE Remove a site (and its data)
omd disable SITE Disable a site (stop it, unmount tmpfs, remove Apache hook)
omd enable SITE Enable a site (reenable a formerly disabled site)
omd mv SITE NEWNAME Rename a site
omd cp SITE NEWNAME Make a copy of a site
omd update SITE Update site to other version of OMD
omd start [SITE] [SERVICE] Start services of one or all sites
omd stop [SITE] [SERVICE] Stop services of site(s)
omd restart [SITE] [SERVICE] Restart services of site(s)
omd reload [SITE] [SERVICE] Reload services of site(s)
omd status [SITE] [SERVICE] Show status of services of site(s)
omd config SITE ... Show and set site configuration parameters
omd diff SITE ([RELBASE]) Shows differences compared to the original version files
omd su SITE Run a shell as a site-user
omd umount [SITE] Umount ramdisk volumes of site(s)
omd backup SITE SITE [-|ARCHIVE_PATH] Create a backup tarball of a site, writing it to a file or stdout
omd restore [SITE] [-|ARCHIVE_PATH] Restores the backup of a site to an existing site or creates a new site
Install OMD Dependancies:
omd setup
Create and Start the monitor site:
omd create production
Adding /omd/sites/production/tmp to /etc/fstab.
Creating temporary filesystem /omd/sites/production/tmp...OK
Restarting Apache...OK
Created new site production with version 1.30.
The site can be started with omd start production.
The default web UI is available at http://omdserver.yourcompany.com/production/
The admin user for the web applications is omdadmin with password omd.
Please do a su - raleigh for administration of this site.
omd start production
Starting rrdcached...OK
Starting npcd...OK
Starting nagios...OK
Starting dedicated Apache for site production...OK
Initializing Crontab...OK
Access the Site:
Open a web browser and go to http://omdserver.yourcompany.com/production/
Default Credentials:
username: omdadmin
password: omd
Commands:
Stop the service
omd stop
Check Status
omd status
Doing 'status' on site production:
rrdcached: running
npcd: running
nagios: running
apache: running
crontab: running
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Overall state: running
Post Requisites:
None
References:
clusterfrak.com
omdistro.org
labs.consol.de
mathias-kettner.de