observium-agent

The observium agent packaged for debian. Most of the files in this repo are from Observium project, specifically here. I made this to make it easier to install the Observium agent on monitored devices. It allows more information to be gathered by Observium using the included modules and even munin-plugins if munin is installed on the device.

Install dependencies

First we need xinetd:

apt-get install xinetd

Then we install the check-mk-agent package, ensure /etc/xinetd.d/check_mk exists and restart xinetd. The observium agent uses this agent to provide info to polling servers.

wget http://mathias-kettner.de/download/check-mk-agent_1.2.0p4-2_all.deb
dpkg -i check-mk-agent_1.2.0p4-2_all.deb
ls -l /etc/xinetd.d/check_mk
service xinetd restart

That will run on port 6556 so make sure you can access your monitored-device from the observium-server on that port by doing the following command:

observium-server:~$ telnet monitored-device 6556

Enable the agent on the device

This is turned off by default so you must enable it on a per device basis.

Install the debian package

Download the latest package section and install it using dpkg:

monitored-device:~$ wget https://www.dropbox.com/s/xg89ycqm5gurkzu/observium-agent_0.2.0-beta_all.deb
monitored-device:~$ dpkg -i observium-agent.deb
Unpacking observium-agent (from observium-agent.deb) ...
Setting up observium-agent (0.2.0-beta) ...
Linking the agent modules...
Link munin plugins for Observium<->Munin integration? [Y/n]:
Linking munin plugins folder /etc/munin/plugins...
Stopping internet superserver: xinetd.
Starting internet superserver: xinetd.

Download locations

Damn, github disabled the downloads section...

• http://www.filedropper.com/observium-agent020-betaall
• http://depositfiles.com/files/u0bvorgwi
• http://bayfiles.com/file/HFIl/ljLV74/observium-agent_0.2.0-beta_all.deb
• https://www.dropbox.com/s/xg89ycqm5gurkzu/observium-agent_0.2.0-beta_all.deb

Install manually

You could just copy the contents to your root (minus the DEBIAN folder). You could then run the postinst file like ./postinst or bash postinst which will run the install procedures.

The file locations should be the same between distros.

References

• http://youresuchageek.blogspot.co.nz/2013/01/howto-raspberry-pi-monitor-your.html
• http://mathias-kettner.de/check_mk_download.html
• http://www.observium.org/wiki/UNIX_Agent
• CodeKiller and adama in irc://irc.oftc.net/observium