In this basic guide we will describe and show you how to install and configure Munin ( Network Monitoring Tool ) with Munin Node in RHEL 6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.8, CentOS6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.8 and Fedora 12,13,14,15,16,17 systems using EPEL repositories with Yumtool. I have personally tested this installation in one of our server using CentOS 5.6 for monitoring purpose.
Munin Network Monitoring
What Is Munin?
Munin is an open source web based network monitoring application written in Perl that displays systems and networks output in graphs using RRDtool. With the help of Munin you can monitor the performance of your systems, networks, SANS’s and applications. It has amaster/node architecture where master connects to each node regularly and pulls the data from them. It then uses RRDtool to log and generate updated graphs.
Installing Munin in RHEL, CentOS & Fedora
Installing Munin is very simple, just follow my below step-by-step commands to install it on your server.
Step 1: Installing EPEL Repository for RHEL & CentOS
Munin can be installed by using Fedora‘s EPEL repository under RHEL 6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.8and CentOS 6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.8. Just, run the following commands as root user to install it using wget.
RHEL/CentOS 6
# wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm # rpm -ivh epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm
RHEL/CentOS 5
# wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm # rpm -ivh epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
Note : Fedora users don’t need to install EPEL repository, because munin is included in Fedoraand can be installed using yum.
Step 2: Installing Munin
Just run the following command as root user.
# yum --enablerepo=epel -y install munin munin-node
By default the above installation creates following directories.
- /etc/munin/munin.conf : Munin master configuration file.
- /etc/cron.d/munin : Munin cron file.
- /etc/httpd/conf.d/munin.conf : Munin Apache configuration file.
- /var/log/munin : Munin log directory.
- /var/www/munin : Munin web directory.
- /etc/munin/munin-node.conf : Munin Node master configuration file.
- /etc/munin/plugins.conf : Munin plugins configuration file.
- /etc/rc.d/init.d/munin-node : Munin start-up service daemon.
Step 3: Configuring Munin
Open file /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file and add the following lines of code at the bottom.
Alias /munin /var/www/munin <Directory /var/www/munin> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory>
Restart Apache and then create system start-up links for Munin and start it.
# /etc/init.d/httpd restart # chkconfig --levels 235 munin-node on # /etc/init.d/munin-node start
Step 4: Accessing Munin Web Interface
Wait for 30 minutes so that Munin can generate graphs and displayed it. To see first output of graphs, open your browser and navigate to http://www.example.com/munin.
For more information and usage please visit at http://munin-monitoring.org/wiki/Documentation.