Monitoring FreeBSD servers by the use of Munin

Article in a nutshell describes installation and configuration Munin on FreeBSD.
With munin you can monitor your servers very easy. Munin also presents output information in graphs through a web interface.

Install munin-main (Munin Collector):

# whereis munin-main
munin-main: /usr/ports/sysutils/munin-main
# cd /usr/ports/sysutils/munin-main
# make install clean

Install munin-node:

# whereis munin-node
munin-node: /usr/ports/sysutils/munin-node
# cd /usr/ports/sysutils/munin-node
# make install clean

#echo 'munin_node_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf
# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/munin-node.sh start

On default html-files with graphs destination in /usr/local/www/munin/ (You can chenge this in config file /usr/local/etc/munin/munin.conf)
You should configure your web-sever (for example apache) to this directory.
It’s all! Go to your server address and enjoy!!!

Posted on January 23rd, 2010 by admin
Filed under: Software