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Installation of Centreon-Nagios-SAP-Plugins on RHEL5


Applies toSAP ERP 2005

Redhat RHEL 5 on x86_64 Systems

SummaryThis paper describes the steps to install a monitoring solution based on Nagios.

SAP CCMS monitors can be uploaded and monitored from within this application.

Author(s): Pascal Bombardier

Company: BULL

Created on: 30 October 2008

Author BioPascal Bombardier has 10 years of experience in ERP consulting, integration and development. His competences ranges from Operating systems to ERP software, from functional analysis to implementation and development. He is working for BULL company and currently joined the SAP Linuxlab as a hardware partner, where he certifies SAP software components on Bull hardware.

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Table of Contents1.Nagios Pre-requisites.....................................................................................................................................3

2.Nagios installation..........................................................................................................................................3

3.Centreon Pre-requisites.................................................................................................................................4

4.Centreon Installation......................................................................................................................................4

5.SAP plugins compilation................................................................................................................................5

6.Configuration Example...................................................................................................................................6

7.Application Views...........................................................................................................................................7


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1.Nagios Pre-requisites

Check that the following packages are installed :yum install httpdyum install gccyum install glibc glibc-commonyum install gd gd-devel

Disable SELinux (permissive mode)

2.Nagios installation

Nagios QuickStarthttp://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/quickstart-fedora.html

Create nagios account/usr/sbin/useradd -m nagiospasswd nagios/usr/sbin/groupadd nagcmd/usr/sbin/usermod -G nagcmd nagios/usr/sbin/usermod -G nagcmd apache

Install Nagios from sourcetar xvf nagios-3.0.4.tar.gzcd nagios-3.0.4./configure --with-command-group=nagcmdmake allmake installmake install-initmake install-configmake install-commandmode

Configure the administrator mail addressvi /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/contacts.cfg

Finish Nagios installationmake install-webconfhtpasswd -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users nagiosadminservice httpd restart

Install the Nagios pluginstar xzf nagios-plugins-1.4.13.tar.gzcd nagios-plugins-1.4.13./configure --with-nagios-user=nagios --with-nagios-group=nagiosmakemake install

Check Nagios configuration/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfgComment line 551 (#time_change_threshold=)


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Install and start Nagios servicechkconfig --add nagioschkconfig nagios onservice nagios start

3.Centreon Pre-requisites

Install rrdtool from EPEL websitewget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpmrpm -Uvh epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpmyum install rrdtool

Install php – mysqlyum install mysql-serveryum install php php-mysql php-pear php-snmp php-posix php-gd php-ldapyum install libpng libpng-devel perl-Config-IniFiles perl-Crypt-DES perl-Digest-HMAC perl-Digest-SHA1 perl-GD perl-IO-Socket-INET6 perl-Net-SNMP rrdtool-perl perl-Socket6

Start Mysqlchkconfig mysqld onservice mysqld start

4.Centreon Installationtar xvf centreon-1.4.2.7.tar.gz./install.sh...Where is installed RRD perl modules [RRDs.pm] ?/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi

Goto http://SERVER/centreon/php pear extensions failed

Setup the proxypear config-set http_proxy "http://proxy:8080"

Copy paste the command line from the browser to a shellpear install -o -f --alldeps DB DB_DataObject DB_DataObject_FormBuilder MDB2 Date Numbers_Roman Numbers_Words HTML_Common HTML_QuickForm HTML_QuickForm_advmultiselect HTML_Table Auth_SASL HTTP Image_Canvas Image_Color Image_Graph Image_GraphViz Mail Mail_Mime Net_SMTP Net_Socket Net_Traceroute Net_Ping Validate SOAP

Click on “Recheck”, all pear extensions should be OK.

Enter Centreon Database Name : centreon


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http://SERVER/centreon/


Enter Centreon Data Storage Database Name : centstorage

Upload the Nagios configuration files from the server “/usr/local/nagios/etc” to the client PCnagios.cfgcgi.cfgresource.cfgobjects/*

In Centreon, goto “Configuration / Nagios / Import” and upload the nagios.cfg, cgi.cfg and resource.cfg files

Restarting Nagios from Centreon does not work# visudo

Comment the following line#Defaults requiretty

Configure service performance collection in nagios.cfgIn Centreon, goto “Configuration / Nagios / Nagios CFG” and setPerformance Data Processing Option YesService Performance Data Processing Command process-service-perfdataService Performance Data File /usr/local/nagios/var/service-perfdata

Start the ODS databasechkconfig –add odschkconfig ods onservice ods start

5.SAP plugins compilation

Get the following filessap-ccms-plugin-0.7.3.tar.gz

http://sourceforge.net/projects/nagios-sap-ccms/RFC_14-10004427_700NUC.SAR

http://service.sap.com/ Download / RFCSDK / 700 / Non-Unicode / x86_64sap_ccms.patch.txt

http://www.nagios-portal.org/wbb/index.php?page=Thread&postID=81533

# tar xvf sap-ccms-plugin-0.7.3.tar.gz# sapcar -xvf RFC_14-10004427_700NUC.SAR# cp rfcsdk/lib/librfc.a sap-ccms-plugin-0.7.3/src/sap_monicp: overwrite `sap-ccms-plugin-0.7.3/src/sap_moni/librfc.a'? y# patch -p0 < sap_ccms.patch.txtpatching file sap-ccms-plugin-0.7.3/src/Makefilepatching file sap-ccms-plugin-0.7.3/src/sap_moni/Makefile# cd sap-ccms-plugin-0.7.3/src# vi check_sap_cons.c...


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printf("%s %s %s %s %s | %s=%s\n",nodes[j].Mtsysid, nodes[j].Mtmcname, nodes[j].Objectname, nodes[j].Mtnameshrt, nodes[j].currentValue, nodes[j].Mtnameshrt, nodes[j].currentValue);...# make

Installation# cp sap_moni.so /lib64# cp check_sap check_sap_cons check_sap_instance check_sap_instance_cons check_sap_multiple check_sap_mult_no_thr check_sap_system check_sap_system_cons /usr/local/nagios/libexec/# chown apache:nagios /usr/local/nagios/libexec/*# cp -a config /etc/sapmon

6.Configuration Example

Adjust login.cfg to login to the systems[LOGIN_BUL]LOGIN=-d BUL -u sap* -p passwd -h ls3023 -s 00

Adjust agents.cfg to monitor the required indicator[TEMPLATE_100]MONI_SET_NAME="SAP CCMS Monitor Templates"MONI_NAME="Dialog Overview"PATTERN_0="*ResponseTime"

[TEMPLATE_105]MONI_SET_NAME="SAP CCMS Monitor Templates"MONI_NAME="Dialog Overview"PATTERN_0="*UsersLoggedIn"

[TEMPLATE_110]MONI_SET_NAME="SAP CCMS Monitor Templates"MONI_NAME="Entire System"PATTERN_0="*EsAct"

[TEMPLATE_200]MONI_SET_NAME="SAP CCMS Monitor Templates"MONI_NAME="Database"PATTERN_0="*Fullest tablespace"

[TEMPLATE_210]MONI_SET_NAME="SAP CCMS Monitor Templates"MONI_NAME="Entire System"PATTERN_0="*DBRequestTime"

[TEMPLATE_300]MONI_SET_NAME="SAP CCMS Monitor Templates"MONI_NAME="Operating System"PATTERN_0="*5minLoadAverage"

[TEMPLATE_999]MONI_SET_NAME="SAP CCMS Monitor Templates"


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MONI_NAME="Entire System"PATTERN_0="*"

7.Application Views

Welcome screen


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Service View


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Hosts View


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Reporting Screen


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Host Graphics


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Host Graphics with SAP Monitors


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Services Configuration – Main View


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Service Configuration – Detail View


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Generate Nagios Configuration


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