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1. Pandora FMS
Administrator Manual
Apache WebServer Monitoring

2. Administrator Manual Apache WebServer Monitoring
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Index
1Changelog...........................................................................................................................................3
2Introduction........................................................................................................................................4
3Compatibility Matrix..........................................................................................................................5
4Documentation provided by the requesting area................................................................................6
5Modules of Apache Webserver available...........................................................................................7
6Monitoring Apache Webserver..........................................................................................................8
6.1.Monitoring via plugins and modules.........................................................................................8
6.1.1.Plugin Agent (local method) .............................................................................................9

3. 1 CHANGELOG
Date Author Change Version
09/05/11 Tomas First Version v1r1
27/11/12 Mario_P Change code v1r2
02/07/13 Mario_P Change code v1r3
22/08/13 Axel Change code v1r4
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4. 2 INTRODUCTION
This plugin allow you to monitor the Apache Web server status using mod_status.
3 COMPATIBILITY MATRIX
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5. Was tested in these systems
• Apache 1.3.x
• Apache 2.x
It should work in these systems
• Apache 1.3.x
• Apache 2.x
4 DOCUMENTATION PROVIDED BY THE REQUESTING AREA
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6. These parameters must be provided by the area which request the monitoring services:
• username: username to authenticate in Apache
• password: password to authenticate in Apache
• command: use wget or curl command.
• IP address: IP of Apache server to monitor
5 MODULES OF APACHE WEBSERVER AVAILABLE
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7. The parameters available to monitor are:
• ApacheTotalTraffic
• ApacheTotalAcceses
• ApacheServerUptime
• ApacheRestartTime
• ApacheIdleWorkers
• ApacheCurrentRequests
• Apache Request/Sec
• Apache CPU Load
• Apache (B/kB/MB)/Sec
• Apache (B/kB/MB)/Request
6 MONITORING APACHE WEBSERVER
6.1. Monitoring via plugins and modules
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8. Once we have installed and configured both Pandora and Apache servers, we're going to explain
how to obtain info about the server status.
There are different ways to achieve this goal, but the easiest and the one on which we're going to
focus is using plugin agents to include modules designed to monitor this information in the
Pandora server, offered by Apache server-status webpage. We can check this page if we have
installed the mod_status module in our Apache server.
6.1.1. Plugin Agent (local method)
Let's suppose we have installed Pandora and Apache servers on different machines, with all the
monitoring systems installed. (Pandora Agent, mod_status)
To perfectly configure the system in order to monitor Apache with mod_status in Pandora, we've
got to find in the Apache server the files httpd.conf (for Apache 1.3.x) apache2.conf (for Apache
2.x) or status.conf (some Apache 2 versions and Turnkeys)
These files can be respectively found in:
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9. /etc/apache/
/etc/apache2/
/etc/apache2/mods-enabled
For Apache 1.3.x, we need to make sure the following entry exists in /etc/apache/modules.conf:
LoadModule status_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_status.so
For Apache 2.x, we need to obtain mod_info. We can make sure we have it by writing in the
terminal the following:
a2enmod info
Once we have located the corresponding config file, include or uncomment the following:
Note: is Apache 2.x is recommended to verify if this paragraph is inside apache2.conf or
status.conf
ExtendedStatus On
<Location /server-status>
SetHandler server-status
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from <Pandora-Server-IP>
Allow from <Machine-Browser-Test-IP>
</Location>
With everything configured, only a restart or reload of the Apache server is needed to continue.
We need a script to gather the values we want to monitor from the HTML file which contains the
Apache Server Status.
We've used an Apache Tomcat Turnkey where we can find that file in the following location:
http://<Apache-IP-Address>/status-server
This script is going to store this file in a local temporal file and parse these values in a Pandora-
compatible XML format.
The script is the following:
pandora_apache.pl
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10. Once we have located the script and the values we want to monitor, include this file in
pandora_agent.conf as a plugin agent. This plugin will create a module for each value, visible in the
Pandora server web interface.
Note: please change permissions to allow the script to be executed.
pandora_agent.conf is the configuration file of the Pandora Agent Software, and where all plugin
agents must be located. This file can be found in:
/etc/pandora/pandora_agent.conf
We will write the following in the file to create the plugin agent for Pandora:
module_plugin <plugin-path>/pandora_apache.pl <username> <userpass>
http://<ApacheServer-IP-Address>/server-status <command(wget|curl>
For instance:
module_plugin /etc/pandora/plugins/pandora_apache.pl user password
http://127.0.0.1/server-status curl
module_plugin /etc/pandora/plugins/pandora_apache.pl none none
http://127.0.0.1/server-status wget
Restart Pandora Agent and the Pandora Server will create a module for each data contained in the
Apache server-status page, from current requests to CPU load and ratios.
/etc/init.d/pandora_agent_daemon restart
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