{"id":316,"date":"2017-06-21T14:53:16","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T14:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.web-workers.ch\/?p=316"},"modified":"2018-06-11T20:59:49","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T20:59:49","slug":"how-to-install-smokeping-on-centos-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.web-workers.ch\/index.php\/2017\/06\/21\/how-to-install-smokeping-on-centos-7\/","title":{"rendered":"How to install SmokePing on CentOS 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

This tutorial explains how to install Tobias Oetiker’s Smokeping into \/opt\/smokeping on a CentOS 7 box.<\/p>\n

Features of Smokeping:
\n– Best of breed latency visualisation.
\n– Interactive graph explorer.
\n– Wide range of latency measurement plugins.
\n– Master\/Slave System for distributed measurement.
\n– Highly configurable alerting system.
\n– Live Latency Charts with the most ‘interesting’ graphs.
\n– Free and open-source Software written in Perl written by Tobi Oetiker, the creator of MRTG and RRDtool<\/p>\n

Install Development Tools<\/h3>\n

Load the development tools needed to compile smokeping.<\/p>\n

# yum groupinstall \"Development tools\"<\/code><\/p>\n

Following applications are available with the CentOS Development tools yum group:<\/p>\n

bison
\nbyacc
\ncscope
\nctags
\ncvs
\ndiffstat
\ndoxygen
\nflex
\ngcc
\ngcc-c++
\ngcc-gfortran
\ngettext
\ngit
\nindent
\nintltool
\nlibtool
\npatch
\npatchutils
\nrcs
\nredhat-rpm-config
\nrpm-build
\nsubversion
\nswig
\nsystemtap<\/p>\n

There are also dependencies that will install with these tools.<\/p>\n

Enable Epel repo<\/h3>\n

You can install EPEL by running yum install epel-release. The package is included in the CentOS extras repository, enabled by default.<\/p>\n

# yum install epel-release<\/code><\/p>\n

Install packages<\/h3>\n

Then install the following packages<\/p>\n

perl
\nhttpd
\nhttpd-devel
\nrrdtool-perl
\nmod_fcgid
\nrrdtool
\nperl-CGI-SpeedyCGI
\nfping
\nperl-Sys-Syslog<\/p>\n

# yum install perl httpd httpd-devel mod_fcgid rrdtool perl-CGI-SpeedyCGI fping rrdtool-perl perl-Sys-Syslog<\/code>
\nAdd a few of the pre packaged CPAN modules<\/p>\n

# yum install perl-CPAN perl-local-lib perl-Time-HiRes<\/code><\/code><\/p>\n

Install smokeping<\/h3>\n

Now download the latest smokeping package available at http:\/\/oss.oetiker.ch\/smokeping\/pub\/
\nThe current version at the time of the writing is 2.6.11<\/p>\n

# cd \/root
\n# wget http:\/\/oss.oetiker.ch\/smokeping\/pub\/smokeping-2.6.11.tar.gz<\/code>
\nthen extract it<\/p>\n

# tar xfz smokeping-2.6.11.tar.gz<\/code>
\nInstall perl modules needed by smokeping<\/p>\n

# mkdir \/opt\/smokeping
\n# cd smokeping-2.6.11\/setup
\n# .\/build-perl-modules.sh
\n# cd ..
\n# cp -r thirdparty \/opt\/smokeping\/
\n# .\/configure --prefix=\/opt\/smokeping
\n# make install<\/code><\/p>\n

Configure smokeping<\/h3>\n

Then you will need to configure smokeping. Find below our sample config in form of a screenshot or download a sample config here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

# vi \/opt\/smokeping\/etc\/config
\n<\/code><\/p>\n

\"\"
\nHint: 10.0.1.251 is the IP of the smokeping host himself.<\/p>\n

Create your config from the default config delivered with smokeping and\/or use our sample config.<\/p>\n

# cd \/opt\/smokeping\/etc
\n# cp config.dist config
\n# cp \/opt\/smokeping\/etc\/basepage.html.dist \/opt\/smokeping\/etc\/basepage.html
\n<\/code><\/p>\n

Create directories used by smokeping, copy some required files into the public web-directory and set rights for apache user if required.<\/p>\n

# mkdir \/opt\/smokeping\/data
\n# mkdir \/opt\/smokeping\/var
\n# mkdir \/var\/www\/smokeping
\n# mkdir \/var\/www\/smokeping\/cache
\n# cp -R \/opt\/smokeping\/htdocs\/* \/var\/www\/smokeping
\n# mv \/var\/www\/smokeping\/smokeping.fcgi.dist \/var\/www\/smokeping\/smokeping.fcgi
\n# chown -R apache:apache \/var\/www\/smokeping<\/code><\/p>\n

Add a virtual apache directory by creating a file on \/etc\/httpd\/conf.d\/ with the name smokeping.conf. Add following content to it<\/p>\n

Alias \/smokeping \"\/var\/www\/smokeping\"
\n<Directory \/var\/www\/smokeping>
\nOptions Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews ExecCGI
\nAllowOverride All
\nOrder allow,deny
\nAllow from all
\nDirectoryIndex smokeping.fcgi
\n<\/Directory>
\n<\/code>
\nRestart Apache<\/p>\n

# service httpd restart<\/code><\/p>\n

SELinux<\/h3>\n

This guide expects SELinux has to be disabled, read following article about disabling SELinux. In case you change your SELinux settings: Make sure you have rebooted your machine to apply the changes.
\nhttps:\/\/www.centos.org\/docs\/5\/html\/5.1\/Deployment_Guide\/sec-sel-enable-disable.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Hint: There are untested notes about SELinux within the comments section below.<\/p>\n

Run smokeping<\/h3>\n

To test the installation, execute following command.<\/p>\n

# cd \/opt\/smokeping
\n# .\/bin\/smokeping --config=\/opt\/smokeping\/etc\/config --debug<\/code><\/p>\n

To daemonize smokeping, execute following command:<\/p>\n

# cd \/opt\/smokeping
\n# .\/bin\/smokeping --config=\/opt\/smokeping\/etc\/config --logfile=smoke.log<\/code><\/p>\n

Browse to: http:\/\/<your_ipaddress>\/smokeping<\/p>\n

For additional resources have a visit at the authors website:
\n– http:\/\/oss.oetiker.ch\/smokeping\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Special Hint:
\nIn case your graphics for the last 3 hours didnt get updated but all the other timeframes are updated normaly, you may experience an error from the compiler. In this case please try to execute smokeping like this:
\n# perl \/opt\/smokeping\/bin\/smokeping --config=\/opt\/smokeping\/etc\/config --logfile=smoke.log<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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