2. Agenda
What is OMD?
What is Check_MK?
Data collection process
Deployment (OMD and Check_MK agent)
Demo
Recommendations
3. What is OMD?
Open Monitoring Distribution - http://omdistro.org/
Not a Linux distro, just a group of tools
Features:
multiple instances per host
separate omd user per instance
etc
4. What is Check_MK?
Nagios add-on (Developed by Mathias Kettner)
Features:
Automatic Service-Detection
Rule-based, hierarchical configuration
High performance through passive checks
Creates Nagios configs for you :)
7. Install OMD (Debian/Ubuntu)
Add the official repo according to your distro
https://labs.consol.de/repo/stable/
aptitude update && aptitude install omd
8. Install Check_MK_agent
Install super server
aptitude install xinetd
Install check_mk_agent
dpkg -i check-mk-agent_1.2.4-2_all.deb
verify if the TCP port 6556 is open
netstat -tulp | grep 6556
9. Create OMD instance
Create a OMD instance for a new environment
omd create env_test
Activate instance
omd start env_test
Access multisite
http://omd/env_test/ - user:omdadmin pass:omd
10.
11. Recommendations
Security! Install iptables and only accept the OMD
server
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 6556 -s X.X.X.X -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 6556 -j DROP