A few steps are required to get NETWAYSGrapher V2 up and running in Debian Lenny. Especialy those missing Perl modules are annoying (I don’t like to have a dev environment on a server).
Here are the steps that I’ve taken to get NETWAYSGrapher V2 up and running.
WARNING: I suppose you’ve already installed Apache, Nagios and MySQL and everything is working!
1. Install required packages:
1 | apt-get install php5 php-pear php5-xsl php5-gd php5-mysql php5-pdo libyaml-perl libyaml-syck-perl libcarp-assert-perl libclass-singleton-perl libclass-accessor-perl libsql-abstract-perl libparams-validate-perl liblog-dispatch-perl libset-crontab-perl libthreads-shared-perl libcache-fastmmap-perl libdbd-mysql-perl libuniversal-require-perl libterm-readkey-perl libproc-daemon-perl |
2. Configure CPAN
1 | perl -MCPAN -e shell |
Let CPAN configure itself by answering ‘yes’ to the question.
3. Install additional CPAN modules
The following modules are missing in Debian Lenny repository or too old:
- Thread::Queue
- Thread::Cancel
- threads
- threads::shared
- Proc::Simple
I’ve created Debian packages which you can find here
You can also install those modules from CPAN.
4. Download NETWAYSGrapher V2
You can download NETWAYSGrapher V2 here
After downloading, extract the package.
1 | tar xjf NETWAYSGrapherV2-2.0RC2.tar.bz2 |
5. Run collector dependencies check
Run the following commands:
1 2 | cd <GRAPHERV2_SOURCE_DIR>/appkit/etc ../bin/phing test-collector-deps |
If all went fine, you should see a message like
SUCCESS: All perl deps (modules) found!
6. Disable magic_quotes_gpc and run frontend dependencies check
Disabling magic_quotes_gpc:
1 2 | sed -i 's/magic_quotes_gpc = On/magic_quotes_gpc = Off/' /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini sed -i 's/magic_quotes_gpc = On/magic_quotes_gpc = Off/' /etc/php5/cli/php.ini |
Running frontend dependencies check:
1 | cd |
1 | <GRAPHERV2_SOURCE_DIR> |
1 2 | /appkit/etc ../bin/phing test-frontend-deps |
If everything is working, you should see no error message, except missing PHP LDAP support, which is not required.
7. Edit build.properties and fit it to your needs
Run your favorite editor and edit
1 | <GRAPHERV2_SOURCE_DIR>/appkit/etc/build.properties. |
1 2 | Change <em>perm.daemon-user</em> and <em>perm.daemon-group</em> to <em>nagios</em>. Set <em>httpd.server_name</em> to <em>your server name</em>. |
If your database is not running on the same host, edit the db-values, too.
8. Create database user
Make a connection to your database as root user and execute the following command:
1 2 | GRANT ALL on ng2_db.* to ng2 identified by '<yourRandomPassword>'; GRANT SUPER on *.* to ng2; |
9. Start installation
1 2 | cd <GRAPHERV2_SOURCE_DIR>/appkit/etc ../bin/phing -Dproperties=<ABSOLUTE_PATH_TO_build.properties> install-all |
10. Add it to Apache
In <GRAPHERV2_INSTALL_DIR>/appkit/etc/appkit_httpd.conf is a fully configured vhost config file.
Copy or link this file to /etc/apache2/sites-enabled and reload your apache.
After you’ve finished all steps, you can integrate NETWAYSGrapher V2 in Nagios.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask me.