Install SmokePing on CentOS 7 Rumi, August 6, 2021August 7, 2021 This tutorial explains how to install Tobias Oetiker’s Smokeping into /opt/smokeping on a CentOS 7 box. Features of Smokeping: – Best of breed latency visualisation. – Interactive graph explorer. – Wide range of latency measurement plugins. – Master/Slave System for distributed measurement. – Highly configurable alerting system. – Live Latency Charts with the most ‘interesting’ graphs. – Free and open-source Software written in Perl written by Tobi Oetiker, the creator of MRTG and RRDtool Install Development Tools Load the development tools needed to compile smokeping. # yum groupinstall "Development tools" There are also dependencies that will install with these tools. Enable Epel repo You can install EPEL by running yum install epel-release. The package is included in the CentOS extras repository, enabled by default. # yum install epel-release Install packages Then install the following packages- # yum install perl httpd httpd-devel mod_fcgid rrdtool perl-CGI-SpeedyCGI fping rrdtool-perl perl-Sys-Syslog Add a few of the pre packaged CPAN modules # yum install perl-CPAN perl-local-lib perl-Time-HiRes Install smokeping Now download the latest smokeping package available at http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/pub/ The current version at the time of the writing is 2.6.11 # cd /root # wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/pub/smokeping-2.6.11.tar.gz then extract it # tar xfz smokeping-2.6.11.tar.gz Install perl modules needed by smokeping # mkdir /opt/smokeping # cd smokeping-2.6.11/setup # ./build-perl-modules.sh # cd .. # cp -r thirdparty /opt/smokeping/ # ./configure --prefix=/opt/smokeping # make install Configure smokeping Then you will need to configure smokeping. Find below our sample config in form of a screenshot or download a sample config here. # vi /opt/smokeping/etc/config Hint: 10.0.1.251 is the IP of the smokeping host himself. Create your config from the default config delivered with smokeping and/or use our sample config. # cd /opt/smokeping/etc # cp config.dist config # cp /opt/smokeping/etc/basepage.html.dist /opt/smokeping/etc/basepage.html Create directories used by smokeping, copy some required files into the public web-directory and set rights for apache user if required. # mkdir /opt/smokeping/data # mkdir /opt/smokeping/var # mkdir /var/www/smokeping # mkdir /var/www/smokeping/cache # cp -R /opt/smokeping/htdocs/* /var/www/smokeping # mv /var/www/smokeping/smokeping.fcgi.dist /var/www/smokeping/smokeping.fcgi # chown -R apache:apache /var/www/smokeping Add a virtual apache directory by creating a file on /etc/httpd/conf.d/ with the name smokeping.conf. Add following content to it Alias /smokeping "/var/www/smokeping" <Directory /var/www/smokeping> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews ExecCGI AllowOverride All Order allow,deny Allow from all DirectoryIndex smokeping.fcgi </Directory> Restart Apache # service httpd restart SELinux This guide expects SELinux has to be disabled, read following article about disabling SELinux. In case you change your SELinux settings: Make sure you have rebooted your machine to apply the changes. https://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.1/Deployment_Guide/sec-sel-enable-disable.html Run smokeping To test the installation, execute following command. # cd /opt/smokeping # ./bin/smokeping --config=/opt/smokeping/etc/config --debug To daemonize smokeping, execute following command: # cd /opt/smokeping # ./bin/smokeping --config=/opt/smokeping/etc/config --logfile=smoke.log Browse to: http://<your_ipaddress>/smokeping For additional resources have a visit at the authors website: – http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/ Create smokeping systemd file\ vim /usr/lib/systemd/system/smokeping.service [Unit] Description=Smokeping Server After=network.target remote-fs.target nss-lookup.target [Service] Type=simple ExecStart=/opt/smokeping/bin/smokeping --nodaemon --config=/opt/smokeping/etc/config --logfile=/var/log/smokeping.log [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target Restart Services (even during any updates in the config file- remember to restart both smokeping and httpd services) systemctl start smokeping && systemctl enable smokeping systemctl restart httpd Special Hint: In case your graphics for the last 3 hours didnt get updated but all the other timeframes are updated normaly, you may experience an error from the compiler. In this case please try to execute smokeping like this: # perl /opt/smokeping/bin/smokeping --config=/opt/smokeping/etc/config --logfile=smoke.log Issue while define ‘smokeping_secrets’ # chmod og-rw /usr/src/smokeping-2.3.6/etc/smokeping_secrets Src: How to install SmokePing on CentOS 7 https://smokeping-users.oetiker.narkive.com/DmlABgVP/issue-while-define-smokeping-secrets https://bidhankhatri.com.np/network/smokeping-2.7.3/ Related Administrations Collected Articles Configurations (Linux) CactiCentOS 7
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./bin/smokeping –config=/opt/smokeping/etc/config –debug ERROR: /opt/smokeping/etc/config, line 6: File ‘/usr/sbin/sendmail’ does not exist Reply
[root@smp smokeping]# ./bin/smokeping –config=/opt/smokeping/etc/config –debug ERROR: /opt/smokeping/etc/config, line 6: File ‘/usr/sbin/sendmail’ does not exist Reply