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            <h1>Install Observium on Debian/Ubuntu</h1>
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          <h2>What is Observium?</h2>

<blockquote><em>Observium is a low-maintenance auto-discovering network monitoring platform supporting a wide range of device types, platforms and operating systems...- <a href="https://www.observium.org/" target="_blank">https://www.observium.org/</a></em></blockquote>

<h2>Installing Observium</h2>

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	<li>Log into the Linux device</li>
	<li>Run the following commands in a terminal window
	<div class="codeBlock"># install prerequisites<br />
	sudo apt install libapache2-mod-php7.3 php7.3-cli php7.3-mysql php7.3-gd php7.3-json php-pear snmp fping mariadb-server mariadb-client python-mysqldb rrdtool subversion whois mtr-tiny ipmitool graphviz imagemagick apache2 -y<br />
	# create a directory for observium<br />
	sudo mkdir -p /opt/observium<br />
	# download latest observium release<br />
	sudo wget http://www.observium.org/observium-community-latest.tar.gz<br />
	sudo tar zxvf observium-community-latest.tar.gz --directory /opt<br />
	# configure the MySQL database<br />
	sudo su<br />
	mysql_secure_installation</div>
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	<li>Press Enter to login as root</li>
	<li>Type Y and press Enter to set a root password, type the password twice to confirm</li>
	<li>Type Y and press Enter to remove anonymous users</li>
	<li>Type Y and press Enter to disallow root login remotely</li>
	<li>Type Y and press Enter to remove the test database</li>
	<li>Type Y and press Enter to reload privilege tables</li>
	<li>Run the following command to login into MySQL:
	<div class="codeBlock">mysql -u root -p</div>
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	<li>Authenticate with the root password set earlier</li>
	<li>Run the following commands to create the Observium database and database user
	<div class="codeBlock">CREATE DATABASE observium DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;<br />
	GRANT ALL ON observium.* to &#39;observium_rw&#39;@&#39;localhost&#39; IDENTIFIED BY &#39;0b5erv1um!!&#39;;<br />
	FLUSH PRIVILEGES;<br />
	EXIT;<br />
	exit</div>
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	<li>Continue with the following commands
	<div class="codeBlock">sudo cp /opt/observium/config.php.default /opt/observium/config.php<br />
	sudo nano /opt/observium/config.php</div>
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	<li>Update the MySQL connection information</li>
	<li>Press CTRL+O, Enter, CTRL+X to write the changes to config.php</li>
	<li>Continue with the following commands
	<div class="codeBlock"># create the database objects<br />
	/opt/observium/discovery.php -u<br />
	# create the logs directory<br />
	sudo mkdir -p /opt/observium/logs<br />
	# create RRDs directory<br />
	sudo mkdir /opt/observium/rrd<br />
	sudo chown www-data:www-data /opt/observium/rrd<br />
	# create observium apache2 configuration<br />
	sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/observium.conf</div>
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	<li>Paste the following configuration
	<p>Listen 8001<br />
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	&lt;VirtualHost *:8001&gt;<br />
	    DocumentRoot /opt/observium/html<br />
	    &lt;Directory /&gt;<br />
	        AllowOverride All<br />
	        Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews<br />
	        Require all granted<br />
	    &lt;/Directory&gt;<br />
	&lt;/VirtualHost&gt;</p>
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	<li>Press CTRL+O, Enter, CTRL+X to write the changes to observium.conf</li>
	<li>Continue with the following commands
	<div class="codeBlock"># enable required apache modules<br />
	sudo a2enmod rewrite<br />
	# enable the observium site<br />
	sudo a2ensite observium<br />
	# restart apache2 service<br />
	sudo systemctl restart apache2<br />
	# create an admin user account<br />
	/opt/observium/adduser.php i12bretro supersecurepw 10</div>
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	<li>Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP:8001</li>
	<li>Log into Observium with the user created above</li>
	<li>Welcome to Observium</li>
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<p>Source: <a href="https://docs.observium.org/install_debian/" target="_blank">https://docs.observium.org/install_debian/</a></p>          </div>
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