In this tutorial, we will guide you through the steps to install LibreNMS on MXLinux Latest. LibreNMS is a free and open-source network monitoring tool that allows you to monitor all aspects of your network infrastructure.
Before we start with the installation process, we need to make sure that the following prerequisites are met:
To install LibreNMS on MXLinux Latest, we need to first install some required dependencies. To do this, open the terminal and execute the following command:
sudo apt-get install apache2 composer fping git graphviz imagemagick libapache2-mod-php7.3 mariadb-client mariadb-server mtr-tiny nmap php7.3-cli php7.3-curl php7.3-gd php7.3-json php7.3-mbstring php7.3-mysql php7.3-snmp php7.3-xml php7.3-zip python-memcache python-mysqldb rrdtool snmp snmpd whois -y
Next, we will clone the latest version of LibreNMS from its Git repository. To do this, execute the following command in the terminal:
sudo mkdir /opt/librenms
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /opt/librenms
sudo chmod 775 /opt/librenms
cd /opt/librenms
sudo git clone https://github.com/librenms/librenms.git .
Once the cloning of the Git repository is complete, we will now install LibreNMS. To do this, we need to run the following command:
sudo ./scripts/install.php
This command will run the LibreNMS installer and will install all the required dependencies.
To access LibreNMS, we need to configure Apache and create a virtual host for it. To do this, we need to create a new Apache configuration file by executing the following command:
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/librenms.conf
Now, copy and paste the following code into the file:
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /opt/librenms/html/
ServerName LIBRENMS_SERVER_IP_ADDRESS
<Directory "/opt/librenms/html/">
Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews
Require all granted
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
ErrorLog /opt/librenms/logs/error.log
CustomLog /opt/librenms/logs/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Replace the LIBRENMS_SERVER_IP_ADDRESS in the above code with the IP address of your server.
Save and close the file by pressing CTRL+O and CTRL+X.
Next, we need to enable the new virtual host and restart Apache by executing the following commands:
sudo a2ensite librenms.conf
sudo systemctl restart apache2.service
Finally, we need to finalize the installation of LibreNMS. To do this, we need to set up a cron job to update the network devices and data automatically. This can be done by running the following command:
sudo crontab -e -u librenms
This will open the crontab file for the user librenms. Now, copy and paste the following code at the end of the file:
*/5 * * * * /opt/librenms/discovery-wrapper.py 1
*/5 * * * * /opt/librenms/cronic /opt/librenms/poller-wrapper.py 16
*/5 * * * * /opt/librenms/check-services.php
*/5 * * * * /opt/librenms/alerts.php
Save and close the file by pressing CTRL+O and CTRL+X.
That's it! You have successfully installed LibreNMS on MXLinux Latest.
In this tutorial, we have guided you through the steps to install LibreNMS on MXLinux Latest. We hope this tutorial will help you monitor your network infrastructure with ease.
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