Server Monitoring with Munin and Monit on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Rumi, January 6, 2016 Our system’s hostname is server1.example.com, and we have a website www.example.com on it with the document root/var/www/www.example.com/web. The following steps have to be performed as root user. To become root user on your server, run this command: sudo su Ensure that the system is up to date before you start… Continue Reading
Setting up the mysql_ Plugin in Munin Rumi, June 6, 2014 After spending a few days trying to get the mysql_ plugin working in my munin installation, I’ve decided to write up the process. It include some pointers about troubleshooting and diagnosing problems with the plugin. Once you have munin and mysql working: # Save this to /etc/munin/plugin-conf.d/mysql_ [mysql_*] env.mysqlconnection DBI:mysql:mysql;host=127.0.0.1;port=3306… Continue Reading
Install Munin-node on RHEL or CentOS 6 or Scientific Linux 6 Rumi, October 25, 2013 rpm -Uvh http://ftp.uninett.no/linux/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm yum install perl-XML-SAX yum install munin-node And voila! Continue Reading
Munin adding up new eth interface Rumi, April 17, 2013 root@pluto:/usr/share/munin/plugins# ./if_ suggest ath0 eth0 –shell munin-node-configure –shell creates symlink commands to link useful plugins from the plugin library to the plugin service directory (usually /etc/munin/plugins). To continue the if_ example: root@pluto:/usr/share/munin/plugins# munin-node-configure –shell ln -s /usr/share/munin/plugins/if_ /etc/munin/plugins/if_ath0 ln -s /usr/share/munin/plugins/if_ /etc/munin/plugins/if_eth0 Continue Reading
Munin Installation on Linux Rumi, March 24, 2013 Installation on Debian/Ubuntu? If you are running Debian/Ubuntu?, you are in luck. Munin node Since "Munin Node" is in the standard repository, you can just type: # apt-get install munin-node Munin master Since "Munin master" is in the standard repository, you can just type: # apt-get install munin Installation on… Continue Reading
Munin to monitor mysql on Debian 6 Rumi, March 19, 2013 First we need to install some Mysql-Munin perl libraries: apt-get install libipc-sharelite-perl Also some Perl stuff will be needed: perl -MCPAN -eshell install IPC::ShareLite Next let’s activate Munin Mysql plugin: Assuming you have already installed both munin & mysql ln -s /usr/share/munin/plugins/mysql_* /etc/munin/plugins Restart both Apache & Munin: /etc/init.d/apache2 restart… Continue Reading
Install Munin on SL 6 Rumi, January 31, 2013 [root@master ~]# yum –enablerepo=epel -y install munin munin-node # install from EPEL [root@master ~]# vi /etc/munin/munin.conf # line 60: change to your hostname Continue Reading
Install Munin on CentOS 5 Rumi, January 20, 2013 1 Preliminary Note Our system's hostname is server1.example.com, and we have a web site www.example.com on it with the document root /var/www/www.example.com/web. 2 Enable The RPMforge Repository On CentOS 5.2, munin and monit are not available in the default CentOS repositories. Fortunately we can install them from the RPMforge repository…. Continue Reading
Enabling munin node plug-ins on Debian Rumi, January 18, 2013January 18, 2013 Munin uses plug-ins to determine what data is gathered and reported. It includes several plug-ins for the types of data most people would be interested in, but not all of those plug-ins are enabled on a fresh installation. What are plug-ins? When a munin node gathers data about a slice… Continue Reading
Munin Memcached Installation Rumi, January 16, 2013 Download memcache plugin memcached.tar.gz the plug-in was found here: http://munin-monitoring.org/browser/trunk/plugins/node.d/memcached_.in. The alternate download link is Here- memcached.tar The plug-in is written in Perl and needs the Memcached Perl library installed to communicate with memcache. ~$ apt-get install libcache-memcached-perl ~$ tar -zxvf memcached.tar.gz ~$ cp memcached_ /usr/share/munin/plugins ~$ ln -s /usr/share/munin/plugins/memcached_… Continue Reading