nagios conference 2012 - dave williams - embedding nagios using raspberypi
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Dave Williams' presentation on embedding Nagios on a RaspberyPi The presentation was given during the Nagios World Conference North America held Sept 25-28th, 2012 in Saint Paul, MN. For more information on the conference (including photos and videos), visit: http://go.nagios.com/nwcnaTRANSCRIPT
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26th September 2012 Dave Williams
Lead Technical Architect
Embedding Nagios in the Raspberry Pi
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Agenda
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Agenda
BackgroundThe Raspberry PiThe Raspberry Pi Nagios RecipeUsing DNX on the Raspberry PiDemonstrationFutures & ‘Blue Sky thinking’Conclusion
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Background
UK basedMainframe (IBM & Honeywell)Unix (HP-UX, AIX, Solaris)Network (CASE, 3COM, CISCO)
Working for BullFrench Computer ManufacturerMainframes, Unix, HPC, Security, Managed Services
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Background
System MonitoringOpenViewNetviewOpen Master
Open Source MonitoringNetSaint on AIXNagios
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The Raspberry Pi
Eben Upton and his colleagues at the University of Cambridge’s Computer Laboratory, became concerned about the year-on-year decline in the numbers and skills levels of the A Level students applying to read Computer Science in each academic yearThe Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It’s a capable little PC which can be used for many of the things that your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It also plays high-definition video.
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The Raspberry Pi
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The Raspberry Pi
Raspberry Pi’s are nearly everywhere
http://rastrack.co.uk
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The Raspberry Pi
The demo / sample system is running Debian – Squeeze
Soon to be updated to Wheezy
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The Raspberry Pi Nagios Recipe
See http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Documentation/Nagios-Core-Documentation/Nagios-and-Raspberry-PI/details
Yes it’s already in the Nagios Core documentation set !
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The Raspberry Pi Nagios Recipe
#apt-get update #apt-get install php5 apache2 libgd2-xpm libgd2-xpm-dev
libgd2-dev libpng12-dev libjpeg62-dev libgd-tools libpng12-dev libgd2-xpm libgd2-xpm-dev libssl-dev gnutls-bin iputils
#groupadd www-data#groupadd nagios #adduser nagios#usermod -G nagios nagios#usermod -G www-data,nagios www-data #mkdir /usr/local/nagios#chown -R nagios:nagios /usr/local/Nagios
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The Raspberry Pi Nagios Recipe
Whoops ! We also need GD-Utils….
root@raspberrypi:/tmp# wget http://www.boutell.com/gd/http/gd-2.0.33.tar.gz
root@raspberrypi:/tmp# tar -zxvf gd-2.0.33.tar.gzroot@raspberrypi:/tmp/gd-2.0.33# ./configureroot@raspberrypi:/tmp/gd-2.0.33# make && make install
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The Raspberry Pi Nagios Recipe
Now we need to get on and install:root@raspberrypi:/tmp# wget
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/nagios/nagios-3.4.1.tar.gz
root@raspberrypi:/tmp# tar xzf nagios-3.4.1.tar.gzroot@raspberrypi:/tmp/nagios# ./configure
–prefix=/usr/local/nagios –with-cgiurl=/nagios/cgi-bin –with-htmurl=/nagios/ –with-nagios-user=nagios –with-nagios-group=nagios –with-command-group=nagios
And then make:root@raspberrypi:/tmp/nagios# make all
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The Raspberry Pi Nagios Recipe
root@raspberrypi:/tmp/nagios# make install-initInstall and configure the directory for that holds the external
command file:root@raspberrypi:/tmp/nagios# make install-commandmodeInstall the apache configuration:root@raspberrypi:/tmp/nagios# make install-webconfAnd at the end install the sample config files:root@raspberrypi:/tmp/nagios# make install-config Restart the apache daemon:root@raspberrypi:/tmp/nagios# /etc/init.d/apache2 reload
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The Raspberry Pi Nagios Recipe
Now for the plugins :
apt-get install nagios-plugins nagios-snmp-pluginsOr by compiling them:root@raspberrypi:/tmp# wget
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/nagiosplug/nagios-plugins-1.4.15.tar.gz
root@raspberrypi:/tmp# tar xzf nagios-plugins-1.4.15.tar.gzroot@raspberrypi:/tmp/nagios-plugins-1.4.15# ./configureroot@raspberrypi:/tmp/nagios-plugins-1.4.15# make && make
install
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Using DNX
1.Download the automated installation script to the /tmp directory:
# cd /tmp2. # wget
http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagiosxi/scripts/NagiosXI3. Make the script executable:# chmod +x NagiosXI-DNX.sh4. Run the script in client mode# ./NagiosXI-DNX.sh -c5. Repeat steps 1-4 for each slave system.6. Repeat steps 1-3 on the master Nagios server.7. Run the script in server mode, optionally enabling automatic
synchronization
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Using DNX
Of course it’s not that easy :Modify the script to run under Debian,206c206< # iptables -I INPUT -p udp --dport 12480:12482 -j ACCEPT---> iptables -I INPUT -p udp --dport 12480:12482 -j ACCEPT246c246< wget -c $DOWNLOAD_URL -o dnx-$DNX_VERSION.tar.gz---> wget -c $DOWNLOAD_URL
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Using DNX
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Demonstration
First the Raspberry Pi running Nagios & DNX
Oh – just one more thing…..
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Futures & ‘Blue Sky thinking’
No limits to the possible uses for the RaspberryPI:
Remember it has a GPIO output capability so….
• For example true ‘traffic light displays’
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Raspberry Pi , Nagios & Traffic Lights
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RaspberryPi, Nagios & Traffic Lights
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Futures & ‘Blue Sky thinking’
No limits to the possible uses for the RaspberryPI:
• Rolling text displays• Digital Signage – Screenly-ose (on github.com)
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Futures & ‘Blue Sky thinking’
3D image of Tera 100You could build a supercomputer like this
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Futures & ‘Blue Sky thinking’
Iridis-piBut with Raspberry PI it might look like this –
64 nodes using Message Passing Interface
Futures & ‘Blue Sky thinking
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Futures & ‘Blue Sky thinking’
Iridis-piPair of Raspberry PI compute nodes in their Lego racking enclosure
Futures & ‘Blue Sky thinking
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Futures & ‘Blue Sky thinking’
How about adding a simple PBX to your current Nagios set-up?
Or just two lines that tell you something ?
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Futures & ‘Blue Sky thinking’
Take data from a weather station and post Twitter feeds & web site info
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Conclusions
For $35 this is a ‘fire & forget’ solution
Quite capable of monitoring SME’s and with DNX support even larger environments
Possibly the easiest way to drive / monitor exotic devicesOnly limited by your imagination
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Questions
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3D image of Tera 100