OMD or Open Monitoring Distribution is an open-source, easy-to-use, and scalable monitoring platform for IT infrastructures. In this tutorial, we will walk you through the steps to install OMD on FreeBSD latest.
Before we start with the installation, make sure you have the following prerequisites installed on your FreeBSD system:
Firstly, update the FreeBSD system to its latest version by running the following command:
sudo pkg update && sudo pkg upgrade
OMD requires some packages to be installed, such as Apache, PHP, and Check_MK. You can install them using the pkg command:
sudo pkg install apache24 php74 php74-mysqli \
check_mk_agent curl
Firstly, visit the OMD website and download the latest version of OMD for FreeBSD.
Extract the downloaded package using the tar command:
sudo tar -zxvf omd-latest.freebsd.tar.gz -C /opt
cd /opt/omd
sudo ./OMD-VERSION.setup install
sudo omd create mymonitoring
sudo omd start mymonitoring
http://localhost/mymonitoring
Once you have successfully installed and configured OMD, you can now start configuring it to monitor your IT infrastructures. For example, you can add hosts to the monitoring site, configure services, and set up notifications.
In this tutorial, you have learned how to install OMD on FreeBSD Latest. You can now explore the powerful monitoring capabilities of OMD and start monitoring your IT infrastructure with ease.
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