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Open Source IT Monitor and SLA Reporting Appliance

Free IT Monitoring and SLA Reporting Appliance based on Open Source Software

Description

This virtual appliance enables instant Open Source-based IT monitoring for small and medium size organizations. Built on the Groundwork Open Source Guava framework, a collection of open source tools like Nagios, RRDTool and NMAP are integrated with MySQL, Apache and Java to provide a simple, yet powerful availability monitoring solution with a common data model. Power on the appliance and Groundwork Monitor Open Source will immediately begin to monitor public Internet hosts and services. Use the configured items to expand monitoring to your IT infrastructure beyond simple ping requests and network scans. Key Open Source projects integrated in the appliance are:

- Nagios for great availability status correlation, event handling and accurate alerting
- Groundwork Monarch for MySQL/WebUI-Based Nagios Configuration
- Groundwork RRD Perfmon for Nagios. Track disk space, bandwidth utilization, memory, swap and more over time, using Nagios perf data or status text for RRD input.
- Groundwork Foundation Reporting for Baseline and Service SLA measurements
- Groundwork Guava for a Web 2.0 user experience built with Apache, PHP, SOAP and MySQL on CentOS Linux.

Visit http://www.nagiosexchange.com/ to explore freely available plugins for Nagios that can be used to monitor a variety of IP devices. Use NMAP in the Groundwork portal to discover hosts and assign monitoring profiles. Generate basic SLA reports showing uptime or downtime.

The appliance was built on a custom install of CentOS v4.4 with only required components installed. IPTables restricts access to ssh, http and https. SE Linux is disabled and only Xwindows is installed. Use ssh and http to access the virtual machine when powered on. It was built with VMware Server running on a WindowsXP host and tested on a RH host.

Security Warning: This virtual appliance assumes there is only a single admin/operator that requires CLI access. If you need more than 1 person logging into the appliance's operating system (CLI), it is *STRONGLY* recommended that you further secure the appliance by installing SUDO and avoiding use of the root account. Don't let your monitoring system become a vulnerability for hackers to exploit!

Security Warning: The MySQL password is not set.

Free training tips now on You Tube!
Visit http://www.youtube.com/groundworktv

Setup:
Dowload and unzip the appliance to your machine. Also download and install VMWare player from http://www.vmware.com/ on your computer. Consider editing the VM settings for Network. and Memory. The default uses NAT for network and 512MB RAM. Change from NAT to Bridged to assign a fixed IP for your VM. Kudzu will step you through the IP Config. Change to 1GB RAM or more if you plan to monitor >50 services.

Power on with VMware Player and then:

- Login to the console as "groundwork" password "monitor"
- Inside the Xwindows screen shell, determine the IP address assigned to your virtual machine by VMware player.

#su -
(Password is opensource)
#ifconfig -a eth0

This will show you the IP address assigned by VMWare on boot.

(Note you can also run firefox from console)
#firefox &

This starts xwin session for you.

- From your host OS, open a browser to the appliance using the IP address determined above. Note that this virtual appliance is configured to use VMWare NAT and that CentOS is configured to use DHCP from the VMWare network device.

http://

Last updated: 06/10/2008

Operating system: CentOS 5.1

Applications installed:
Groundwork Opensource Guava v1.x, MySQL v5.x, Apache, Java v1.5, Nagios v2.10, RRDTool, NagVis, WebInject, Groundwork RRD Perfmon for Nagios, NMAP, IPTables, Xwin (for VMware tools), Syslog-NG, SNMPTT, Xpdf.

VMware Tools installed: Yes

Size: 1600MB MB
Torrent available: No
(What is BitTorrent?)

Primary account
Username: admin
Password: admin

Memory allocated: 1512MB MB

License: GPL, Mozilla, other

Submitted by: nycguy


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