Raspberry Pi : monitor the system with Monitorix

With the server up, It now remains to monitor what is happening on the discs, interfaces, etc.

There are many tools for monitoring the system : Nagios, Cacti, Zabbix, OpsView, etc. But at the beginning of the project I was gone to Monitorix so I do the tutorial but later will come from other tutorials for other monitoring tools.

1. Updating the system

   apt-get update

2. Install the dependencies without Apache :

   apt - get install libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 libaprutil1-ldap libdbi-perl rrdtool librrds-perl-libwww-perl libemail-date-format-perl libmime-lite-perl libmime-types-perl libnet-daemon-perl libplrpc-perl nullmailer libxml-simple-perl libconfig-general-perl libhttp-server-simple-perl

3. If an error appears, run the following command before relaunching the command in step 2

   apt - get - f install

4. Download archive monitorix deb here (current version 3.2.0)
5. Install the CGI wrapper if it is not already selected (see the article on the installation of Nginx here)

   apt - get install fcgiwrap

6. Start the installation of the package

    dpkg-I monitorix_3.2.0 - izzy1_all.deb

7. Create the directory for web pages

   mkdir/var/www/monitorix

8. Copy the files for the site

   CP-r/usr/share/monitorix / * / var/www/monitorix

9. Change the rights

   chown -R www-data:www - data/var/www/monitorix

10. Create the directory

    mkdir-p/var/db/rrd/monitorix

11. Edit /etc/monitorix.conf

    base_dir = /var/www/monitorix/  base_lib = /var/db/rrd/monitorix/  base_url = /
    
    base_cgi = following

12. In the directory /etc/nginx/site-availables create the file monitorix. The default port 8090 can be changed in this file

    server {
    
    listen 8090;
    
     server_name monitorix;
    
     root/var/www/monitorix;
    
    rental /cgi/ {
    
     off gzip;
    
     root/var/www/monitorix;
    
     fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/fcgiwrap.Socket;
    
     include/etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
    
     fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    
     }
    
     }

13. Enable the site by creating a link in/etc/nginx/sites-enabled

    ln-s/etc/nginx/sites-available/monitorix/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/monitorix

14. Configure graphics to generate in /etc/monitorix.conf in the section GRAPH_ENABLED
15. Restart nginx and monitorix service

    service nginx restart  service monitorix restart

Here is the result :

Result of the execution of monitorix on Raspberry Pi

Soon I will present a tutorial to another monitoring tool so that you can make your choice !

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