Owl Monitoring System

Sensor Installation Manual

Table of Contents

 0. Setting Up Sensors for 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 Sensor Installation
 2.1. Create an Owl Sensor Account
 2.2. SSH Initialization
 2.3. Install the Owl Environment
 2.4. Install Required Perl Modules
    
 3. An Interlude on Sensor Queries
 3.1. Gathering and Storing Sensor Data
 3.2. Transferring Sensor Data
 3.3. Sensor Heartbeats
    
 4. Adding Sensors
 4.1. Firewall Configuration
 4.2. SSH Set-up
 4.3. Get Configuration Data from Manager
 4.4. Set Up the Owl Configuration File
 4.5. Test Transfer to Manager
 4.6. Add Start-up Entries
 4.7. Add cron Entries
 4.8. Start Owl Daemons
    
 5. Adding New Queries to Existing Owl Sensors
    
 6. Owl Sensor Commands
    
  



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