Owl Monitoring System

Manager Installation Manual

Table of Contents

 0. Setting Up the Owl Monitoring System
    
 1. Operational Overview of the Owl Monitoring System
 1.1. Owl Sensor Overview
 1.2. Owl Manager Overview
 1.3. Data Retention on Owl Hosts
    
 2. Owl Manager Installation
 2.1. Manager Installation
 2.1.1. Preparatory Steps
 2.1.2. Installing Third-Party Software
 2.1.2.1. Nagios Core and Plugins
 2.1.2.2. nagiosgraph
 2.1.2.3. rrdtool
 2.1.2.4. drraw.cgi
 2.1.2.5. Perl modules
 2.1.3. Installing the Owl Monitor Software
 2.1.3.1. Unpacking the Owl Monitor Software
 2.1.3.2. owl-dnswatch
 2.1.3.3. owl-perfdata
 2.1.3.4. owl-newsensor
 2.1.3.5. owl-transfer-mgr
 2.1.3.6. Data-Archiving Programs
 2.2. Modifying Configuration Files
 2.2.1. Save Files!
 2.2.2. nagios.cfg (Nagios)
 2.2.3. cgi.cfg (Nagios)
 2.2.4. resource.cfg (Nagios)
 2.2.5. share/config.inc.php (Nagios)
 2.2.6. nagiosgraph.conf (nagiosgraph)
 2.2.7. map (nagiosgraph)
 2.2.8. htpasswd.users (Apache)
    
 3. An Interlude on Sensor Queries
 3. An Interlude on Sensor Queries
 3.1. Gathering and Storing Sensor Data
 3.2. Transferring Sensor Data
 3.3. Sensor Heartbeats
    
 4. Adding Owl Sensors to an Existing Owl Installation
 4.1. Create Directories and Files for Sensor's Data
 4.2. Firewall Configuration
 4.3. SSH Set-up
 4.4. Configuration Settings
 4.4.1. Provide Configuration Information to Sensor Administrator
 4.4.2. Receive Configuration Information from Sensor Administrator
 4.5. Test Transfer from Sensor
 4.6. Wait for Sensor Data
 4.7. Build Nagios Sensor Objects
 4.8. Nagios Modifications
 4.8.1. nagios.cfg
 4.8.2. owl-hostgroups.cfg
 4.9. Graphing Modifications
 4.10. Restart Nagios
    
 5. Defining Graphs
 5.1. Graphing with nagiosgraph
 5.2. Graphing with drraw.cgi
 5.3. Adding Graphs to the Nagios Sidebar
    
 6. Changing Queries on Existing Owl Sensors
 6.1 Adding New Queries
 6.2 Deleting Old Queries
    
 7. Owl Manager Commands
    
  



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