What is Observium agent?

The Observium Unix Agent is a collection of scripts which return statistical data for a Linux host. The Agent allows us to poll more complex statistics and information from Linux and some Unix hosts.

What is Observium monitoring?

Network monitoring with intuition. Observium is a low-maintenance auto-discovering network monitoring platform supporting a wide range of device types, platforms and operating systems including Cisco, Windows, Linux, HP, Juniper, Dell, FreeBSD, Brocade, Netscaler, NetApp and many more.

How does Observium discover new devices in the network?

Introduction. Observium was designed to auto-discover as much as possible. The auto-discovery process begins by using SNMP to gather information about a device. This information allows Observium to discover all the internal sensors and interfaces of this device.

What type of database does Observium use?

Observium is a PHP/MySQL driven Network Observation and Monitoring application, that supports a wide range of operating systems/hardware platforms including, Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, Cisco, HP, Dell, NetApp and many more.

How do I add a device to Observium?

Login into Observium and go to Devices >> Add Device. Enter Hostname, SNMP version (v2c – leave the default), port number (161), and community name on this page. As recommended in Observium setup, we will add localhost (Observium server) as our first device.

How do I install Observium?

Install Observium on Ubuntu 20.04|18.04 LTS with Nginx

Step 1: Install PHP and required modules. Ubuntu 18.04+ has PHP 7.x in its repositories.
Step 2: Install Nginx Web Server.
Step 3: Install and configure MariaDB.
Step 4: Download and Install Observium.
Step 5: Configure Nginx.
Step 6: Configure Observium on Web UI.

What does Auvik do best?

Auvik is great for mapping out your networks. It’s really nice to get an overall view of your networked devices and how they all connect to each other. And it’s wonderful for troubleshooting outages and connection issues because you can see everything including the actual switch ports being used.

How do I add a device to Observium monitoring tool?

How do I set up Observium?

Let’s start with the installation procedure.

Update the System Packages.
Install the Required Packages.
Enable Apache Rewrite Module.
Restart Apache.
Install Observium on Debian 9.
Set Proper Ownership of Observium Files.
Create Database and User.
Create a New Virtual Host.

How do I get to Observium?

To log in to Observium web admin panel, open a browser and navigate your server’s IP address or domain name or server FQDN via HTTPS protocol. Log in to Observium dashboard with the username and password configured for admin account in the above step.

What port does Observium use?

80/tcp
Configuration. The default configuration will launch Observium in the default port (80/tcp), with a random admin password which will be shown in the login page, it’ll update the system (from svn) once a week and will not support virtual machine monitoring.

How do I monitor my Linux machine with Observium?

Can observium integrate with external apps?

So Observium is pretty awesome that it can also integrate with External Applications such as smokeping, RANCID, syslog, etc. For this tutorial I’m simply going to address Collectd, but a full list is available here.

What database does obsobservium run on?

Observium runs on top of Apache, MySQL, PHP, RRD, and NetSNMP (as well as Graphviz and fping). During the package installation process, you’re going to receive a prompt to provide the MySQL Root password.

How do I add a server to my observium installation?

Time to have Observium monitor it. Go into Observium’s web interface ( http:// ). Login, and from the navigations go Devices -> Add Device. Press “Add Device” and then wait for the next cron to run. Congratulations! You’ve added a server to your Observium installation! Now wait for data collection to occur!

What kind of pollers does obsobservium use?

Observium mainly utilizes two types of pollers, SNMP and the Unix Agent. Only SNMP will be covered in this tutorial. The Unix Agent can/will be featured in a future post, or someone else can do it who knows. This tutorial will help you install and configure SNMP for CentOS, RHEL, Debian, and Ubuntu servers.