op5 monitor distributed setup

The setup

Introduction



In this setup we will have the following servers:

Poller server Master server

Hostname poller01 master

IP address 192.168.1.10 192.168.1.20

We now assume you have installed the OS and op5 Monitor on both servers.

Setting up the master

To setup your master server follow the steps bellow:





Step Instruction

1 Upload the master tar file to the master server and place it in

/root

2 Login, as the root user, via ssh.

3 Unpack the tar file and cd to the created folder:

tar xfvz op5_distributed_master-<VERSION>.tar.gz

cd distributed_master-<VERSION>/

4

Start the setup with:

./setup poller01 192.168.1.10

5 Type y or Y and press Enter to continue with the installation.

6 You will be prompted to tell the script if you like it to inactivate all

 active checks.

Y or y N or n

If you choose to let the script If you choose not to let the script

inactivate all active checks this inactivate you will have to do it

will not only affect the templates. your self after the setup is

Every host and service having finished.

enable_active_checks set will

have it set to 0.

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Step Instruction

7 Choose whether to use PushLogs or not.

Setting up the poller - step one

To setup your poller server follow the instructions below:

Step Instruction

1 Upload the master tar file to the master server and place it in

/root

2 Login, as the root user, via ssh.

3 Unpack the tar file and cd to the created folder:

tar xfvz op5_distributed_poller-<VERSION>.tar.gz

cd distributed_poller-<VERSION>/

4

Star the setup with:

./setup poller01 192.168.1.10 192.168.1.20

5 Type y or Y and press Enter to continue with the installation.

6 Choose whether to use PushLogs or not.

Y or y

N or n

If you choose to use PushLogs

If you choose not to let the script

make sure you have enabled it on activate PushLogs for you will

the master server.

need to add everything manually

later if you change your mind.

7

Continue with Setting up the poller - step two.

Setting up the poller - step two

This part will guide you through the post setup part of the poller setup.

Step Instruction

1 Copy the ssh key printed by the setup script to the following file on the

 master server:

/opt/monitor/.ssh/authorized_keys

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Step Instruction

2 Now su to the monitor user and make a test to login over ssh to the

 master server with the following commands:

su - monitor

ssh -i /etc/rsync/mirror-rsync-key 192.168.1.20

3

As the monitor user execute a manual conf sync with the following

two commands:

su - monitor

/opt/plugins/control/check_conf_sync.sh

4

Open up Configure in the monitor web GUI and remove the monitor

host object.