Observium is an open-source monitoring solution that is designed to provide real-time visibility into the health and performance of your network infrastructure. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configure Observium on MXLinux latest version.
Before proceeding with the installation, make sure your system meets the following requirements:
The first step is to install the dependencies required by Observium. Open the terminal and run the following commands:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install apache2 php php-cli php-snmp php-xml php-mysql php-mysqli php-gd libapache2-mod-php composer fping libmysqlclient-dev libsnmp-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libssl-dev
Next, download the latest version of Observium from the official website. You can download the community edition by running the following command:
sudo wget http://www.observium.org/observium-community-latest.tar.gz
Once the download is complete, extract the Observium archive by running the following command:
sudo tar zxvf observium-community-latest.tar.gz
This will extract the Observium files to a directory named observium.
Now, change the directory to the observium directory by running the following command:
cd observium
Then, run the following command to start the installation process:
sudo ./run.php install
This will install Observium on your MXLinux system.
Once the installation is complete, open your web browser and navigate to http://localhost/observium. You should see the Observium login page.
Use the default username and password, which are admin for both fields, to log in to the Observium web interface.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Observium on MXLinux latest version. You can now use Observium to monitor the health and performance of your network infrastructure in real-time.
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