1. Centreon Deployment Chris Scicluna

2. 2.2. Centreon Installation
Contents
1. What is Centreon?
2. Installation
2.1. Nagios Installation
2.2. Centreon Installation
3. Screenshots: Monitoring, Configuration and more
4. Demo

3. What is Centreon?
Monitors servers, switches, services, etc through SNMP

4. What is Centreon?
Distributed, scalable monitoring.

5. What is Centreon? Includes real time front end management
GUI management
Nagios Config File

6. What is Centreon? Other points about centreon v2:
Based on open source monitoring engine Nagios3
Provides load distribution and high availability
Flexibility and modularity enhanced over nagios

7. Installation – Prerequisites
A clean installation of Ubuntu Server Edition was installed
Centreon main prerequisites :
Apache
Php
MySql
Mail (Exim or Postfix)
Compiler
All the prerequisites can be installed in one go:
apt-get install sudo bsd-mailx lsb-release build-essential apache2 apache2-mpm-prefork php5 php5-mysql php-pear php5-ldap php5-snmp php5-gd mysql-server libmysqlclient15-dev rrdtool librrds-perl libconfig-inifiles-perl libcrypt-des-perl libdigest-hmac-perl libdigest-sha1-perl libgd-gd2-perl snmp snmpd libnet-snmp-perl libsnmp-perl libgd2-xpm libgd2-xpm-dev libpng12-dev postfix

8. Installation – Prerequisites
MySql will require password and confirmation
Postfix configuration – Select no configuration 5

9. Installation – Nagios 3 Create the nagios user :
# /usr/sbin/useradd -m nagios
# passwd nagios
Create a group for the nagios user and add apache to it:
# /usr/sbin/groupadd nagcmd
# /usr/sbin/usermod -G nagios,nagcmd nagios
Download, unpack, compile and install latest version:
# cd /usr/local/src/
# wget
# tar -xzf nagios tar.gz
# cd nagios-3.2.1
# ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/nagios --with-command-group=nagcmd --enable-nanosleep --enable-event-broker
# make all
# make install
# make install-init
# make install-commandmode
# make install-config

10. Installation – Nagios Plugins
Download the latest edition of nagios plugins
# cd /usr/local/src
# wget
Install plugin prerequisites
#apt-get install dnsutils fping
#apt-get install libssl-dev
#apt-get install libldap2-dev
#apt-get install libpq-dev
#apt-get install libradiusclient-ng-dev
Unpack, configure, compile and install nagios plugins:
# tar -xzf nagios-plugins tar.gz
# cd nagios-plugins
# ./configure --with-nagios-user=nagios --with-nagios-group=nagios --with-openssl=/usr/bin/openssl --enable-perl-modules
# make
# make install

11. Installation – NdoUtils
Install mysql dev api as a prerequisite
# sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev
Download, unpack, configure, compile and install. Also make autorun.
# cd /usr/local/src
# wget
# tar -xzf ndoutils-1.4b9.tar.gz
# cd ndoutils-1.4b9
# ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/nagios/ --enable-mysql --disable-pgsql --with-ndo2db-user=nagios --with-ndo2db-group=nagios
# make
# cp ./src/ndomod-3x.o /usr/local/nagios/bin/ndomod.o
# cp ./src/ndo2db-3x /usr/local/nagios/bin/ndo2db
# cp ./config/ndo2db.cfg-sample /usr/local/nagios/etc/ndo2db.cfg
# cp ./config/ndomod.cfg-sample /usr/local/nagios/etc/ndomod.cfg
# sudo chmod 774 /usr/local/nagios/bin/ndo*
# sudo chown nagios:nagios /usr/local/nagios/bin/ndo*
# cp ./daemon-init /etc/init.d/ndo2db
# chmod +x /etc/init.d/ndo2db
# update-rc.d ndo2db defaults

12. Installation – Centreon (Finally)
Download and unpack latest version
# cd /usr/local/src/
# wget
# tar -xzf centreon tar.gz
# cd centreon-2.1.8
Run the included installation script
# export PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/nagios/bin/"
# ./install.sh -i

14. CLI Installation Complete
Reload the apache configuration
# /etc/init.d/apache2 reload
At this point, Centreon Installation is continued from the web GUI

15. GUI Installation - Centreon
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16. GUI Installation - Centreon

18. GUI Installation - MySql
After this screen, verify database connection

19. GUI Installation – Create admin

20. GUI Installation – Config File

21. GUI Installation – MySQL db creation

22. Centreon Installation FINISHED

23. Screenshots : Monitoring

24. Screenshots : Configuration

25. Screenshots : Logging

26. Screenshots : Reporting

27. Thank you for listening!
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