{"id":11535,"date":"2019-03-14T11:22:03","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T11:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/?p=11535"},"modified":"2019-03-14T11:22:03","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T11:22:03","slug":"monitorix-3-10-1-released-a-lightweight-system-and-network-monitoring-tool-for-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/2019\/03\/14\/monitorix-3-10-1-released-a-lightweight-system-and-network-monitoring-tool-for-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Monitorix 3.10.1 Released \u2013 A Lightweight System and Network Monitoring Tool for Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"

Monitorix<\/strong>\u00a0is an open source, free and most powerful lightweight tool designed to monitor system and network resources in Linux. It regularly collects system and network data and display the information in graphs using its own web interface.\u00a0Monitorix<\/strong>\u00a0allows to monitor overall system performance and also help in detecting bottlenecks, failures, unwanted long response times and other abnormal activities.<\/p>\n

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\"Linux<\/a><\/p>\n

Monitorix \u2013 Linux System and Network Monitoring Tool<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

It is written in\u00a0Perl<\/strong>\u00a0language and licensed under the terms of\u00a0GNU<\/strong>\u00a0(General Public License<\/strong>) as published by the\u00a0FSP<\/strong>\u00a0(Free Software Foundation<\/strong>). It uses\u00a0RRDtool<\/strong>\u00a0to generate graphs and display them using web interface.<\/p>\n

This tool is specifically created for monitoring\u00a0Red Hat<\/strong>,\u00a0CentOS<\/strong>,\u00a0Fedora<\/strong>\u00a0based Linux systems, but today it runs on many different flavors of\u00a0GNU\/Linux<\/strong>\u00a0distributions and even it runs on\u00a0UNIX<\/strong>\u00a0systems like\u00a0OpenBSD<\/strong>,\u00a0NetBSD<\/strong>and\u00a0FreeBSD<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The development of\u00a0Monitorix<\/strong>\u00a0is currently in active state and adding new features, new graphs, new updates and fixing bugs to offer a great tool for Linux system\/network administration.<\/p>\n

Monitorix Features<\/h3>\n
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  1. System load average, active processes, per-processor kernel usage, global kernel usage and memory allocation.<\/li>\n
  2. Monitors Disk drive temperatures and health.<\/li>\n
  3. Filesystem usage and I\/O activity of filesystems.<\/li>\n
  4. Network traffic usage up to 10 network devices.<\/li>\n
  5. System services including SSH, FTP, Vsftpd, ProFTP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, POP3, VirusMail and Spam.<\/li>\n
  6. MTA Mail statistics including input and output connections.<\/li>\n
  7. Network port traffic including TCP, UDP, etc.<\/li>\n
  8. FTP statistics with log file formats of FTP servers.<\/li>\n
  9. Apache statistics of local or remote servers.<\/li>\n
  10. MySQL statistics of local or remote servers.<\/li>\n
  11. Squid Proxy Web Cache statistics.<\/li>\n
  12. Fail2ban statistics.<\/li>\n
  13. Monitor remote servers (Multihost).<\/li>\n
  14. Ability to view statistics in graphs or in plain text tables per day, week, month or year.<\/li>\n
  15. Ability to zoom graphs for better view.<\/li>\n
  16. Ability to define the number of graphs per row.<\/li>\n
  17. Built-in HTTP server.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    For a full list of new features and updates, please check out the official\u00a0feature page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    Installing Monitorix on a RHEL\/CentOS\/Fedora Linux<\/h3>\n

    First, install following required packages.<\/p>\n

    # yum install rrdtool rrdtool-perl perl-libwww-perl perl-MailTools perl-MIME-Lite perl-CGI perl-DBI perl-XML-Simple perl-Config-General perl-HTTP-Server-Simple perl-IO-Socket-SSL wget\r\n<\/pre>\n
    If in case\u00a0yum<\/strong>\u00a0fails to installing one or more of above packages, then you could enable following additional repositories to install them.<\/p>\n
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    1. Enable EPEL repository<\/a><\/li>\n
    2. Enable RPMforge repository<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
      Next, download the latest version of \u2018Monitorix<\/strong>\u2018 package using\u00a0wget<\/strong>\u00a0command.<\/p>\n
      # wget http:\/\/www.monitorix.org\/monitorix-3.10.1-1.noarch.rpm<\/pre>\n
      Once successfully downloaded, install it using the\u00a0rpm<\/strong>\u00a0command.<\/p>\n
      # rpm -ivh monitorix-3.10.1-1.noarch.rpm<\/pre>\n
      Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]\r\n   1:monitorix              ########################################### [100%]<\/pre>\n
      Once successfully installed, please have a look at the main configuration file \u2018\/etc\/monitorix.conf<\/strong>\u2018 to add some extra settings according to your system and enable or disable graphs.<\/p>\n
      Finally, add\u00a0Monitorix<\/strong>\u00a0service to system start-up and start the service with following commands.<\/p>\n
      # chkconfig --level 35 monitorix on\r\n# service monitorix start        \r\n# systemctl start monitorix       [On RHEL<\/strong>\/CentOS 7<\/strong> and Fedora 22+<\/strong> versions ]\r\n<\/pre>\n
      Once, you\u2019ve started service, the program will start collecting system information according to configuration set in \u2018\/etc\/monitorix.conf<\/strong>\u2018 file, and after few minutes you will start seeing system graphs from your browser at.<\/p>\n
      http:\/\/localhost:8080\/monitorix\/<\/pre>\n
      If you have\u00a0SELinux<\/strong>\u00a0in enabled state, then graphs are not visible and you will get tons of error messages in \u2018\/var\/log\/messages<\/strong>\u2018 or \u2018\/var\/log\/audit\/audit.log<\/strong>\u2018 file about access denied to\u00a0RRD<\/strong>\u00a0database files. To get rid of such errors messages and visible graphs, you need to disable\u00a0SELinux<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
      To Turn Off\u00a0SELinux<\/strong>, simple changing the line \u201cenforcing<\/strong>\u201d to \u201cdisabled<\/strong>\u201d in \u2018\/etc\/selinux\/config\u2019<\/strong>\u00a0file.<\/p>\n
      SELINUX=disabled<\/pre>\n
      The above will disable\u00a0SELinux<\/strong>\u00a0temporarily, until you reboot the machine. If you want the system to start in always disable mode, you need to reboot the system.<\/p>\n
      Installing Monitorix on a Ubuntu\/Debian\/Linux Mint<\/h3>\n
      The\u00a0Monitorix<\/strong>\u00a0installation can be done in two-ways, using\u00a0Izzy repository<\/strong>\u00a0for automatic installation\/updates and another using manually download and install\u00a0.deb<\/strong>\u00a0package.<\/p>\n
      The Izzy repository is an experimental repository but the packages from this repository should work on all versions of\u00a0Ubuntu<\/strong>,\u00a0Debian<\/strong>, etc. However, no warranties are given \u2013 So, the risk is all yours. If you still want to add this repository for automatic updates via\u00a0apt-get<\/strong>, simply follow the steps provided below for automatic installation.<\/p>\n
      Automatic Installation Using Izzy Repository<\/h4>\n
      Add the following line to your \u2018\/etc\/apt\/sources.list\u2019<\/strong>\u00a0file.<\/p>\n
      deb http:\/\/apt.izzysoft.de\/ubuntu generic universe<\/pre>\n
      Get\u00a0GPG<\/strong>\u00a0key for this repository, you can get it using\u00a0wget<\/strong>\u00a0command.<\/p>\n
      # wget http:\/\/apt.izzysoft.de\/izzysoft.asc<\/pre>\n
      Once downloaded, add this\u00a0GPG<\/strong>\u00a0key to apt configuration by using the command \u2018apt-key<\/strong>\u2018 as shown below.<\/p>\n
      # apt-key add izzysoft.asc<\/pre>\n
      Finally, install the package via the repository.<\/p>\n
      # apt-get update\r\n# apt-get install monitorix<\/pre>\n
      Manual Installation Using .Deb Package<\/h4>\n
      Manually, downloading latest version of\u00a0.deb<\/strong>\u00a0package and install it with taking care of required dependencies as shown below.<\/p>\n
      # apt-get update\r\n# apt-get install rrdtool perl libwww-perl libmailtools-perl libmime-lite-perl librrds-perl libdbi-perl libxml-simple-perl libhttp-server-simple-perl libconfig-general-perl libio-socket-ssl-perl\r\n# wget http:\/\/www.monitorix.org\/monitorix_3.10.1-izzy1_all.deb\r\n# dpkg -i monitorix_3.10.1-izzy1_all.deb<\/pre>\n
      During installation, a web server configuration takes place. So, you need to reload the\u00a0Apache<\/strong>\u00a0web server to reflect new configuration.<\/p>\n
      # service apache2 restart         [On SysVinit<\/strong>]\r\n# systemctl restart apache2       [On SystemD<\/strong>]\r\n<\/pre>\n
      Monitorix<\/strong>\u00a0comes with a default configuration, if you wish to change or adjust some settings take a look at the configuration file at \u2018\/etc\/monitorix.conf<\/strong>\u2018. Once you\u2019ve done changes reload the service for new configuration to take effect.<\/p>\n
      # service monitorix restart         [On SysVinit<\/strong>]\r\n# systemctl restart monitorix       [On SystemD<\/strong>]\r\n<\/pre>\n
      Now point your browser to \u2018http:\/\/localhost:8080\/monitorix<\/strong>\u2018 and start watching graphs of your system. It can be accessed from\u00a0localhost<\/strong>\u00a0only, if you wish to allow access to remote\u00a0IP\u2019s<\/strong>. Simply open the \u2018\/etc\/apache2\/conf.d\/monitorix.conf<\/strong>\u2018 file and add IP\u2019s to the \u2018Allow from<\/strong>\u2018 clause. For example see below.<\/p>\n
      <Directory \/usr\/share\/monitorix\/cgi-bin\/>\r\n        DirectoryIndex monitorix.cgi\r\n        Options ExecCGI\r\n        Order Deny,Allow\r\n        Deny from all\r\n        Allow from 172.16.16.25<\/strong>\r\n<\/Directory><\/pre>\n
      After you made changes to above configuration, do not forget to restart\u00a0Apache<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
      # service apache2 restart         [On SysVinit<\/strong>]\r\n# systemctl restart apache2       [On SystemD<\/strong>]\r\n<\/pre>\n
      Monitorix Screenshots<\/h3>\n
      Please check out the following are some screenshots.<\/p>\n
      Monitorix Homepage<\/h4>\n
      \n
      \"Monitorix<\/a><\/p>\n
      Monitorix Homepage<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
      Monitor Linux Load Average<\/h4>\n
      \n
      \"System<\/a><\/p>\n
      System load average, active processes and memory allocation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
      Monitor Linux Kernel Usage<\/h4>\n
      \n
      \"Global<\/a><\/p>\n
      Global kernel usage<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
      Monitor Linux Kernel Processor<\/h4>\n
      \n
      \"Per-processor<\/a><\/p>\n
      Per-processor kernel usage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
      Monitor Linux Disk Health<\/h4>\n
      \n
      \"Disk<\/a><\/p>\n
      Disk drive temperatures and health.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
      Monitor Linux Filesystem and Disk I\/O Read<\/h4>\n
      \n
      \"Filesystem<\/a><\/p>\n
      Filesystem usage and I\/O activity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
      Monitor Linux Network Traffic<\/h4>\n
      \n
      \"eth0<\/a><\/p>\n
      eth0 interface traffic<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
      Monitor Linux System Services<\/h4>\n
      \n
      \"System<\/a><\/p>\n
      System services demand<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
      Monitor Linux Network Port Traffic<\/h4>\n
      \n
      \"Network<\/a><\/p>\n
      Network Port Traffic<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
      Monitor Linux Apache Statistics<\/h4>\n
      \n
      \"Apache<\/a><\/p>\n
      Apache Statistics<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
      Monitor MySQL\/MariaDB Statistics<\/h4>\n
      \n
      \"MySQL<\/a><\/p>\n
      MySQL Statistics<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
      Reference Links:<\/h3>\n
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      1. Monitorix Homepage<\/a><\/li>\n
      2. Monitorix Documentation<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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