Showing posts with label Centos 6. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Centos 6. Show all posts

Friday, August 9, 2013

Installing/Enabling RPMForge on CentOS 6.5 (latest binaries)

The steps needed to install RPMForge on CentOS are already described on this excellent page, I'll just update the script to use the latest binaries.

rnd=$RANDOM
wget -O /tmp/rpmforge-`echo $rnd`.rpm http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
rpm --import http://apt.sw.be/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
rpm -i /tmp/rpmforge-`echo $rnd`.rpm
rm -f /tmp/rpmforge-`echo $rnd`.rpm
#


To test you can try installing something from the RPMForge repositories, like htop:
yum install htop

CentOS 6.4 on HyperV - No Neworking on eth0

Just installed CentOS 6.4 from the CentOS-6.4-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso image as a HyperV virtual machine.

After installation I observed that the eth0 adapter is not configured.
This blog post helped me to start networking, thanks Rutger Thomschutz!

Based on the blog post mentioned I did the following:

vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

# changed ONBOOT to Yes
ONBOOT = yes

Created the hard links, brang up the adapter and rebooted the server:
# edit 9/10/2013 - in most cases you don't have to create the links below. 
# ln /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0
# ln /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/ifcfg-eth0
ifconfig eth0 up
reboot now
#

Tuesday, August 6, 2013

CentOS + Centreon - No Graphs Showing Up


  • CentOS 6
  • Centreon 2.4

No graphs showing up after restarting the server



Solution


This is not actually a solution, but a workaround. The culprit is SELinux so turning it off brings the graphs back. I had so many issues with SELinux so I don't bother anymore trying to configure it to work with Centreon, I'll just turn it off.

# setenforce permissive


To disable SELinux completely, modify the following file:

# vim /etc/sysconfig/selinux

SELINUX=permissive

Saturday, February 16, 2013

Configuring SELinux for Centeron 2.4 on CentOS 6.3

  • CentOS 6.3 x64
  • Centreon 2.4

Problem


During Centreon installation when the tool starts up, the website is blank and nothing's happening.



I can observe the following error in /var/log/httpd/error_log:
[Sat Feb 16 18:07:58 2013] [error] [client 192.168.189.63] PHP Fatal error:  Smarty error: unable to write to $compile_dir '/usr/local/centreon/GPL_LIB/SmartyCache/compile'. Be sure $compile_dir is writable by the web server user. in /usr/local/centreon/GPL_LIB/Smarty/libs/Smarty.class.php on line 1095, referer: http://192.168.189.36/centreon/install/setup.php

Other errors can also be seen in the log but those are irrelevant:
[Sat Feb 16 18:29:29 2013] [error] [client 192.168.189.63] PHP Fatal error:  require_once(): Failed opening required 'www/class/centreonXMLBGRequest.class.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in /usr/local/centreon/www/include/monitoring/status/TopCounter/xml/ndo/statusCounter.php on line 43, referer: http://192.168.189.36/centreon/main.php?p=61701&num=1&limit=30&poller=&template=&search=&type=&o=&search_type_service=1&search_type_host=1&search_service=
[Sat Feb 16 18:29:31 2013] [error] [client 192.168.189.63] PHP Warning:  include_once(/etc/centreon/centreon.conf.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /usr/local/centreon/www/include/monitoring/status/TopCounter/xml/ndo/statusCounter.php on line 41, referer: http://192.168.189.36/centreon/main.php?p=604
[Sat Feb 16 18:29:31 2013] [error] [client 192.168.189.63] PHP Warning:  include_once(): Failed opening '/etc/centreon/centreon.conf.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in /usr/local/centreon/www/include/monitoring/status/TopCounter/xml/ndo/statusCounter.php on line 41, referer: http://192.168.189.36/centreon/main.php?p=604
[Sat Feb 16 18:29:31 2013] [error] [client 192.168.189.63] PHP Notice:  Undefined variable: centreon_path in /usr/local/centreon/www/include/monitoring/status/TopCounter/xml/ndo/statusCounter.php on line 43, referer: http://192.168.189.36/centreon/main.php?p=604
[Sat Feb 16 18:29:31 2013] [error] [client 192.168.189.63] PHP Warning:  require_once(www/class/centreonXMLBGRequest.class.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /usr/local/centreon/www/include/monitoring/status/TopCounter/xml/ndo/statusCounter.php on line 43, referer: http://192.168.189.36/centreon/main.php?p=604
[Sat Feb 16 18:29:31 2013] [error] [client 192.168.189.63] PHP Fatal error:  require_once(): Failed opening required 'www/class/centreonXMLBGRequest.class.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in /usr/local/centreon/www/include/monitoring/status/TopCounter/xml/ndo/statusCounter.php on line 43, referer: http://192.168.189.36/centreon/main.php?p=604
[Sat Feb 16 18:33:46 2013] [error] [client 192.168.189.63] PHP Fatal error:  require_once(): Failed opening required 'www/class/centreonXMLBGRequest.class.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in /usr/local/centreon/www/include/monitoring/status/TopCounter/xml/ndo/statusCounter.php on line 43, referer: http://192.168.189.36/centreon/main.php?p=604

Solution


SELinux blocks httpd to write in any folder other than /var/www/ and some exceptions have to be made.

Configuring SELinux for Centeron 2.4 on CentOS 6.3

yum -y install policycoreutils-python
semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t "/usr/local/centreon(/.*)?"
restorecon -R /usr/local/centreon/
semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t "/etc/centreon(/.*)?"
restorecon -R /etc/centreon
semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t "/usr/local/nagios/var/spool(/.*)?"
semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_content_t "/usr/local/nagios/share(/.*)?"
restorecon -R /usr/local/nagios
semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_content_t "/usr/share/php(/.*)?"
restorecon -R /usr/share/php
semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_content_t "/usr/share/pear(/.*)?"
restorecon -R /usr/share/pear
#

You may want to check out my blog post on Installing Centreon 2.4 on CentOS 6.3 x64.

Installing Centreon 2.4 on CentOS 6.3 x64 - Step by Step - Part 2

This is the continuation of Installing Centreon 2.4 on CentOS 6.3 x64 - Step by Step

Preparing MySQL

## Add innodb_file_per_table=1 under the [mysqld] section in my.cnf
vim /etc/my.cnf

## then
service mysqld start
chkconfig mysqld on
# 

Installing Centreon

#
service httpd start
groupadd centreon
useradd -g centreon centreon
cd /usr/local/src/
wget http://download.centreon.com/index.php?id=4264

tar -zxf centreon-2.4.0.tar.gz
cd centreon-2.4.0
export PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/nagios/bin/"

# create an answer file with the following contents:
vim ./answer
#
And create the answer file with the following content:
## CentWeb: Web front Centreon for Nagios
PROCESS_CENTREON_WWW=1
## CentStorage: Log and charts archiving.
PROCESS_CENTSTORAGE=1
## CentCore: Distributed Monitoring engine.
PROCESS_CENTCORE=1
## CentPlugins: Centreon Plugins for nagios
PROCESS_CENTREON_PLUGINS=1
## CentTraps: Centreon Snmp traps process for nagios
PROCESS_CENTREON_SNMP_TRAPS=1

#####################################################################
## Begin: Default variables
#####################################################################
## Your default variables
## $BASE_DIR is the centreon source directory
LOG_DIR="$BASE_DIR/log"
LOG_FILE="$LOG_DIR/install_centreon.log"

## Don't change values above unless you perfectly understand
## what you are doing.
## Centreon temporary directory to work
TMP_DIR="/tmp/centreon-setup"
## default snmp config directory
SNMP_ETC="/etc/snmp/"
## a list of pear modules require by Centreon
PEAR_MODULES_LIST="pear.lst"
#####################################################################
## End: Default variables
##################################################################


#####################################################################
## Begin: Centreon preferences
#####################################################################
## Above variables are necessary to run a silent install
## Where you want to install Centreon (Centreon root directory)
INSTALL_DIR_CENTREON="/usr/local/centreon"
## Centreon log files directory
CENTREON_LOG="/usr/local/centreon/log"
## Centreon config files
CENTREON_ETC="/etc/centreon"
## Where is your Centreon binaries directory ?
CENTREON_BINDIR="/usr/local/centreon/bin"
## Where is your Centreon data informations directory ?
CENTREON_DATADIR="/usr/local/centreon/data"
## Centreon generation config directory
##  filesGeneration and filesUpload
## Where is your Centreon generation_files directory ?
CENTREON_GENDIR="/usr/local/centreon"
## libraries temporary files directory
## Where is your Centreon variable library directory ?
CENTREON_VARLIB="/var/lib/centreon"
## Where is your CentPlugins Traps binary?
CENTPLUGINSTRAPS_BINDIR="/usr/local/centreon/bin"
## Where is the RRD perl module installed [RRDs.pm]
## ATTENTION: ON x64 SYSTEMS THE PATH IS LIB64 INSTEAD OF LIB
##               vv
RRD_PERL="/usr/lib64/perl5"
## What is the Centreon group ?
CENTREON_GROUP="centreon"
## What is the Centreon user ?
CENTREON_USER="centreon"
## What is the Monitoring engine user ?
MONITORINGENGINE_USER="nagios"
## What is the Monitoring engine group ?
MONITORINGENGINE_GROUP="nagios"
## What is the Monitoring engine log directory ?
MONITORINGENGINE_LOG="/usr/local/nagios/var"
## Where is your monitoring plugins (libexec) directory ?
PLUGIN_DIR="/usr/local/nagios/libexec"
## Path to sudoers file (optional)
## Where is sudo configuration file
SUDO_FILE="/etc/sudoers"
## What is the Monitoring engine init.d script ?
MONITORINGENGINE_INIT_SCRIPT="/etc/init.d/nagios"
## What is the Monitoring engine binary ?
MONITORINGENGINE_BINARY="/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios"
## What is the Monitoring engine configuration directory ?
MONITORINGENGINE_ETC="/usr/local/nagios/etc"
## Where is the configuration directory for broker module ?
BROKER_ETC="/usr/local/nagios/etc"
## Where is the init script for broker module daemon ?
BROKER_INIT_SCRIPT="/etc/init.d/ndo2db"
## Do you want me to configure your sudo ? (WARNING)
FORCE_SUDO_CONF=1

#####################################################################
## Begin: Apache preferences
#####################################################################
## Apache configuration directory (optional)
#DIR_APACHE="/etc/apache"
## Apache local specific configuration directory (optional)
## Do you want to update Centreon Apache sub configuration file ?
# DIR_APACHE_CONF="/etc/apache/conf.d"
## Apache configuration file. Only file name. (optional)
#APACHE_CONF="apache.conf"
## Apache user (optional)
WEB_USER="apache"
## Apache group (optional)
WEB_GROUP="apache"
## Force apache reload (optional): set APACHE_RELOAD to 1
## Do you want to reload your Apache ?
APACHE_RELOAD=1
#####################################################################
## End: Apache preferences
#####################################################################


## Do you want me to install/upgrade your PEAR modules
PEAR_AUTOINST=1
## Centreon run dir (all .pid, .run, .lock)
## Where is your Centreon Run Dir directory?
CENTREON_RUNDIR="/var/run/centreon"

## path to centstorage binary
## Where is your CentStorage binary directory
CENTSTORAGE_BINDIR="/usr/local/centreon/bin"
## CentStorage RRDs directory (where .rrd files go)
## Where is your CentStorage RRD directory
CENTSTORAGE_RRD="/var/lib/centreon"
## Do you want me to install CentStorage init script ?
CENTSTORAGE_INSTALL_INIT=1
## Do you want me to install CentStorage run level ?
CENTSTORAGE_INSTALL_RUNLVL=1


## path to centcore binary
CENTCORE_BINDIR="usr/local/centreon/bin"
## force install init script (install in init.d)
## Set to "1" to enable
## Do you want me to install CentCore init script ?
CENTCORE_INSTALL_INIT=1
## force install run level for init script (add all link on rcX.d)
## Set to "1" to enable
## Do you want me to install CentCore run level
CENTCORE_INSTALL_RUNLVL=1

## Some plugins require temporary datas to process output.
## These temp datas are store in the CENTPLUGINS_TMP path.
## Where is your CentPlugins lib directory
CENTPLUGINS_TMP="/var/lib/centreon/centplugins"

## path for snmptt installation
SNMPTT_BINDIR="/usr/local/centreon/bin/"
## What is the Broker user ? (optional)
BROKER_USER=$MONITORINGENGINE_USER

## Nagios user (optional)
NAGIOS_USER="nagios"
## Nagios group (optional)
NAGIOS_GROUP="nagios"
## Centreon Connector PATH
## Mail (optional)
BIN_MAIL="/bin/mail"
## 
Save the file and you're ready to install.
# install using the answer file
./install.sh -f ./answer

# After installation configure SELinux
yum -y install policycoreutils-python
semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t "/usr/local/centreon(/.*)?"
restorecon -R /usr/local/centreon/
semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t "/etc/centreon(/.*)?"
restorecon -R /etc/centreon
semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t "/usr/local/nagios/var/spool(/.*)?"
semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_content_t "/usr/local/nagios/share(/.*)?"
restorecon -R /usr/local/nagios/
semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_content_t "/usr/share/php(/.*)?"
restorecon -R /usr/share/php
semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_content_t "/usr/share/pear(/.*)?"
restorecon -R /usr/share/pear

# Restart some services
service httpd restart
service ndo2db restart
service nagios restart
#

When the installation is finished, open http://server/centreon/ in the browser.

Next, Next




At the third page:

  • Nagios directory: /usr/local/nagios/
  • Nagiostats binary: /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagiostats
  • Nagios image directory: /usr/local/nagios/share/images

At the forth page:
  • Broker Module: ndoutils
  • Ndomod binary (ndomod.o): /usr/local/nagios/bin/ndomod.o

At the fifth page enter the details of the admin user.


At the 6th page you have to specify the db details. By default the mysql root password is blank.


After finishing the setup there'll be something wrong with the db so you'll have to go back to the shell to grant permissions for the centreon db user.


#
mysql -e "grant all on centreon.* to 'centreon'@localhost identified by 'CentreonDBPassword';"
mysql -e "grant all on centreon_storage.* to 'centreon'@localhost identified by 'CentreonDBPassword'"
mysql -e "grant all on centreon_status.* to 'centreon'@localhost identified by 'CentreonDBPassword';"
#

Friday, February 15, 2013

Perl module Test-Simple-0.70 fails to build while compiling Nagios Plugins 1.4.16


  • CentOS 6.3 x64
  • Nagios-Plugins-1.4.16


Problem


While compiling nagios-plugins-1.4.16:
cd /usr/local/src
tar -xzf nagios-plugins-1.4.16.tar.gz
cd nagios-plugins-1.4.16
./configure --with-nagios-user=nagios --with-nagios-group=nagios --with-openssl=/usr/bin/openssl --enable-perl-modules
make
make install
The following error shows up at the end of make install:
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/nagios-plugins-1.4.16/perlmods/Test-Simple-0.70'
make[3]: *** No rule to make target `install'.  Stop.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/nagios-plugins-1.4.16/perlmods/Test-Simple-0.70'
Can't run make install at ../tools/build_perl_modules line 85.
make[2]: *** [install-exec-local] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/nagios-plugins-1.4.16/perlmods'
make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/nagios-plugins-1.4.16/perlmods'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

Solution


Build the Test-Simple-0.70 package manually then make install the nagios-plugins again:

#inside the extracted nagios-plugins that is being built
cd nagios-plugins-1.4.16/perlmods/Test-Simple-0.70
perl Makefile.PL
make
make install

# go back to nagios-plugins to make install
cd ../..
make install

You may want to check out my blog post on Installing Centreon 2.4 on CentOS 6.3 x64.

make: *** No rule to make target `/usr/lib64/perl5/CORE/config.h', needed by `Makefile'. Stop.

Problem


While compiling ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.64 on CentOS 6.3: x64

cd /usr/local/src
wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/M/MS/MSCHWERN/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.64.tar.gz
tar -xzf ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.64.tar.gz
cd ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.64
perl Makefile.PL
make

I get the following error:
make: *** No rule to make target `/usr/lib64/perl5/CORE/config.h', needed by `Makefile'.  Stop.

Solution


The package perl-devel needs to be installed then make again:
yum -y install perl-devel

cd /usr/local/src
cd ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.64
make
make install

Installing Centreon 2.4 on CentOS 6.3 x64 - Step by Step

Scope


In this no-brainer guide I am going to detail how to install Centreon on a brand new CentOS 6.3 x64 machine.
Components:
  • CentOS 6.3 x64 (this)
  • Nagios Core 3.4.4 (this)
  • Nagios Plugins 1.4.16 (this)
  • Centreon 2.4 (this)

Prerequisites


  • CentOS is installed in text-mode using the CentOS-6.3-x86_64-LiveCD.iso image on a VirtualBox VM in my case
  • Firewall ports 22 and 80 have been opened by the configuration tool
  • Default services have been installed + sshd
  • I consciously don't start the with yum update/upgrade so the expected result should be as much the same as possible

# install RPMForge
# for details visit this website: http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge
rpm --import http://apt.sw.be/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt

uname -i
# for me 'x86_64' is the result so I'll choose the x86_64 version
wget -N http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
rpm -i rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.*.rpm


# Installing Apache2 + PHP
yum -y install httpd php php-mysql php-gd
usermod -U apache
chkconfig httpd on
# Set your timezone in php.ini to get rid of an ugly warinng in the future.
# find date.timezone at the [date] section, uncomment and set it. for me it's Europe/Bucharest
# date.timezone = Europe/Bucharest
# find yours here: http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/visdk400pubs/ReferenceGuide/timezone.html
vim /etc/php.ini
#
# Add port 80 to Firewall
sudo iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT 
sudo service iptables save


# Installing GD modules
yum -y install gd fontconfig-devel libjpeg-devel libpng-devel gd-devel perl-GD

# Installing MySQL
yum -y install openssl-devel perl-DBD-MySQL mysql-server mysql-devel

# Installing PHP Dependencies
yum -y install php-ldap php-xml php-mbstring

# Installing DBI modules
yum -y install perl-DBI perl-DBD-MySQL

# Installing PERL modules
yum -y install perl-Config-IniFiles

# Installing RRDTools
yum -y install rrdtool perl-rrdtool

# Installing SNMP
yum -y install perl-Crypt-DES perl-Digest-SHA1 perl-Digest-HMAC net-snmp-utils
yum -y install perl-Socket6 perl-IO-Socket-INET6 net-snmp net-snmp-libs php-snmp dmidecode lm_sensors perl-Net-SNMP net-snmp-perl

# Misc
yum -y install fping cpp gcc gcc-c++ libstdc++ glib2-devel
# Make is not included on cent-os by default
yum -y install make

# PEAR
yum -y install php-pear
pear channel-update pear.php.net 
# for those who have a web proxy
# pear config-set http_proxy http://my_proxy.com:port 
pear upgrade-all


# add the line rocommunity public 127.0.0.1/32 to snmpd.conf
sed -i '$ a\rocommunity public 127.0.0.1/32' /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf
service snmpd start
chkconfig snmpd on
# enabling NTP couldn't hurt
chkconfig ntpd on 
ntpdate pool.ntp.org 
service ntpd start
# 


Installing Nagios


# Creating the nagios user
/usr/sbin/useradd -m nagios
/usr/sbin/usermod -L nagios

# Creating a group to be able to use external commands
/usr/sbin/groupadd nagcmd
/usr/sbin/usermod -G nagios,nagcmd nagios
/usr/sbin/usermod -G nagios,nagcmd apache

# Download & Compile
cd /usr/local/src/
wget -N http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/nagios/nagios-3.4.4.tar.gz
tar -xzf nagios-3.4.4.tar.gz
cd nagios

./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
chkconfig nagios on
service nagios start
#



Compiling Nagios Plugins


#
cd /usr/local/src
wget -N http://sourceforge.net/projects/nagiosplug/files/nagiosplug/1.4.16/nagios-plugins-1.4.16.tar.gz/download

yum -y install fping openssl-devel openldap-devel postgresql-devel radiusclient-ng-devel samba-client libsmbclient

yum -y install perl-devel
cd /usr/local/src
wget -N http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/M/MS/MSCHWERN/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.64.tar.gz
tar -xzf ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.64.tar.gz
cd ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.64
perl Makefile.PL
make
make install

cd /usr/local/src
tar -xzf nagios-plugins-1.4.16.tar.gz
cd nagios-plugins-1.4.16
./configure --with-nagios-user=nagios --with-nagios-group=nagios --with-openssl=/usr/bin/openssl --enable-perl-modules
make

# Test-Simple-0.70 fails to compile otherwise so have to do it manually first
cd ./perlmods/Test-Simple-0.70
perl Makefile.PL
make
make install

# go back to nagios-plugins to make install
cd ../..
make install
# 

Installing NDOutils

#
cd /usr/local/src
wget -N http://sourceforge.net/projects/nagios/files/ndoutils-1.x/ndoutils-1.5.2/ndoutils-1.5.2.tar.gz/download
tar -zxvf ndoutils-1.5.2.tar.gz
cd ndoutils-1.5.2

# get the patch and apply it; wget to same folder as ndoutils
wget -N http://svn.centreon.com/trunk/ndoutils-patch/ndoutils1.5.2_light.patch
yum -y install patch
patch -p1 -N < ndoutils1.5.2_light.patch

# continue installation
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/nagios/ --enable-mysql --with-ndo2db-user=nagios --with-ndo2db-group=nagios
make


# After creating the binaries and libraries they have to be copied
cp -f ./src/ndomod-3x.o /usr/local/nagios/bin/ndomod.o
cp -f ./src/ndo2db-3x /usr/local/nagios/bin/ndo2db
cp -f ./config/ndo2db.cfg-sample /usr/local/nagios/etc/ndo2db.cfg
cp -f ./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*

# make ndo2db daemon autorun
cp -f ./daemon-init /etc/init.d/ndo2db
chmod +x /etc/init.d/ndo2db
chkconfig ndo2db on
#

Click here for Part 2