Sensu is a monitoring platform that provides a variety of tools for monitoring infrastructure, applications, and services. In this tutorial, we will discuss how to install Sensu on MXLinux Latest.
Before starting, make sure you have the following:
To ensure that you have the latest software updates and that the package cache is up-to-date, run the following command:
sudo apt-get update
Sensu relies on RabbitMQ message broker to work with its clients. To install RabbitMQ Server, run the following command:
sudo apt-get install rabbitmq-server
After installation, enable RabbitMQ service to start on boot:
sudo systemctl enable rabbitmq-server
To install Sensu, create a new file called sensu.list in the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ directory, and add the following lines:
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sensu.list
Add the following lines to the file:
deb https://packages.sensu.io/apt sensu main
Save and close the file.
Add the Sensu signing key:
wget -q https://sensu.global.ssl.fastly.net/apt/pubkey.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
Update the package cache:
sudo apt-get update
Now install Sensu:
sudo apt-get install sensu
To start Sensu services, run the following command:
sudo systemctl start sensu-server sensu-api sensu-client
To enable them to start on boot, run:
sudo systemctl enable sensu-server sensu-api sensu-client
To verify that Sensu has been installed successfully, run the following command:
sudo sensu-client -V
This should display the version of Sensu installed.
In this tutorial, we discussed how to install Sensu on MXLinux Latest. The installation consists of installing RabbitMQ Server and Sensu, creating a repository and signing key, and starting the Sensu services. Sensu is a powerful monitoring solution that offers a variety of tools for monitoring infrastructure, applications, and services.
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