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Installation Guide: Monit
| 1 | 1 | Anonymous | = Monit: Monitoring of Services = |
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| 2 | 1 | Anonymous | You can find more about Monit at [http://mon.wiki.kernel.org/]. |
| 3 | 1 | Anonymous | |
| 4 | 1 | Anonymous | == Installation == |
| 5 | 1 | Anonymous | * Add the DAG repository on the ''master node'' and ''slave nodes''. Enter at the command line as ''root'': |
| 6 | 1 | Anonymous | {{{ |
| 7 | 1 | Anonymous | wget http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm |
| 8 | 1 | Anonymous | rpm -Uvh rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm |
| 9 | 1 | Anonymous | }}} |
| 10 | 1 | Anonymous | |
| 11 | 1 | Anonymous | * Install Monit on the ''master node'' and ''slave nodes''. Enter at the command line as ''root'': |
| 12 | 1 | Anonymous | {{{ |
| 13 | 1 | Anonymous | yum install monit |
| 14 | 1 | Anonymous | }}} |
| 15 | 1 | Anonymous | |
| 16 | 1 | Anonymous | == Configuration == |
| 17 | 1 | Anonymous | |
| 18 | 1 | Anonymous | === Master node === |
| 19 | 1 | Anonymous | * Download the [source:Externals/Cluster/procksi_monit.tgz configuration files] from the repository and extract the files. Enter at the command line: |
| 20 | 1 | Anonymous | {{{ |
| 21 | 1 | Anonymous | tar -xvzf procksi_monit.tgz |
| 22 | 1 | Anonymous | }}} |
| 23 | 1 | Anonymous | |
| 24 | 1 | Anonymous | * Copy a the files in ''./monit/master'' to the appropriate directories. |
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| 26 | 1 | Anonymous | * Change permissions of the monit token file. Enter at the command line: |
| 27 | 1 | Anonymous | {{{ |
| 28 | 1 | Anonymous | chown -R procksi.procksi_dev /home/procksi/monit/token |
| 29 | 1 | Anonymous | }}} |
| 30 | 1 | Anonymous | |
| 31 | 1 | Anonymous | * Edit the Apache configuration file ''/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf'': |
| 32 | 1 | Anonymous | {{{ |
| 33 | 1 | Anonymous | #General Aliases for Monitoring and Testing |
| 34 | 1 | Anonymous | Alias /monit/ "/home/procksi/monit/" |
| 35 | 1 | Anonymous | Alias /ganglia/ "/usr/local/ganglia/html/" |
| 36 | 1 | Anonymous | Alias /trees/ "/home/procksi/trees/" |
| 37 | 1 | Anonymous | |
| 38 | 1 | Anonymous | #Conditional Logging: Don't log Ganglia and Monit requests |
| 39 | 1 | Anonymous | SetEnvIf Request_URI "ganglia" dontlog |
| 40 | 1 | Anonymous | SetEnvIf Request_URI "^\/monit\/token$" dontlog |
| 41 | 1 | Anonymous | }}} |
| 42 | 1 | Anonymous | |
| 43 | 1 | Anonymous | * Restart the Apache server. Enter at the command line as ''root'': |
| 44 | 1 | Anonymous | {{{ |
| 45 | 1 | Anonymous | /sbin/service httpd restart |
| 46 | 1 | Anonymous | }}} |
| 47 | 1 | Anonymous | |
| 48 | 1 | Anonymous | * Make the Monit daemon start at bootup. Enter at the command line as ''root'': |
| 49 | 1 | Anonymous | {{{ |
| 50 | 1 | Anonymous | /sbin/chkconfig monit on |
| 51 | 1 | Anonymous | }}} |
| 52 | 1 | Anonymous | |
| 53 | 1 | Anonymous | * Start the Monit daemon. Enter at the command line as ''root'': |
| 54 | 1 | Anonymous | {{{ |
| 55 | 1 | Anonymous | /sbin/service monit start |
| 56 | 1 | Anonymous | }}} |
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| 58 | 1 | Anonymous | |
| 59 | 1 | Anonymous | === Slave nodes === |
| 60 | 1 | Anonymous | * Download the [source:Externals/Cluster/procksi_monit.tgz configuration files] from the repository and extract the files. Enter at the command line: |
| 61 | 1 | Anonymous | {{{ |
| 62 | 1 | Anonymous | tar -xvzf procksi_monit.tgz |
| 63 | 1 | Anonymous | }}} |
| 64 | 1 | Anonymous | |
| 65 | 1 | Anonymous | * Copy a the files in ''./monit/slave'' to the appropriate directories. |
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| 67 | 1 | Anonymous | * Edit ''/etc/monit.d/system'' and set the correct host name for each slave node. |
| 68 | 1 | Anonymous | |
| 69 | 1 | Anonymous | * Make the Monit daemon start at bootup. Enter at the command line as ''root'': |
| 70 | 1 | Anonymous | {{{ |
| 71 | 1 | Anonymous | /sbin/chkconfig monit on |
| 72 | 1 | Anonymous | }}} |
| 73 | 1 | Anonymous | |
| 74 | 1 | Anonymous | * Start the Monit daemon. Enter at the command line as ''root'': |
| 75 | 1 | Anonymous | {{{ |
| 76 | 1 | Anonymous | /sbin/service monit start |
| 77 | 1 | Anonymous | }}} |
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| 80 | 1 | Anonymous | == Online Monitoring == |
| 81 | 1 | Anonymous | |
| 82 | 1 | Anonymous | The status of each monitored service, process, file, etc. is available with the Monit's integrated webserver at port 2812 from ''localhost'' and selected machines. Username and password can be found at the secret [[wiki:secretAuthentication authentication]] page. |
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| 84 | 1 | Anonymous | || master01 || [http://procksi0.cs.nott.ac.uk:2812] |
| 85 | 1 | Anonymous | || slave01 || [http://procksi1.cs.nott.ac.uk:2812] |
| 86 | 1 | Anonymous | || slave02 || [http://procksi2.cs.nott.ac.uk:2812] |
| 87 | 1 | Anonymous | || slave03 || [http://procksi3.cs.nott.ac.uk:2812] |
| 88 | 1 | Anonymous | || slave04 || [http://procksi4.cs.nott.ac.uk:2812] |
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| 91 | 1 | Anonymous | == Offline Monitoring == |
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| 93 | 1 | Anonymous | Monit sends alerts to "procksi@cs.nott.ac.uk" if services are unavailable, have been restarted, or similar events. |