Owl Monitoring System -- Manager Installation Manual -- Table of Contents

|  | ## Owl Monitoring System ## Manager Installation Manual

### Table of Contents

| 0. |  | Setting Up the Owl Monitoring System
| 1. |  | Operational Overview of the Owl Monitoring System
| 1.1. |  | Owl Sensor Overview
| 1.2. |  | Owl Manager Overview
| 1.3. |  | Data Retention on Owl Hosts
| 2. |  | Owl Manager Installation
| 2.1. |  | Manager Installation
| 2.1.1. |  | Preparatory Steps
| 2.1.2. |  | Installing Third-Party Software
| 2.1.2.1. |  | Nagios Core and Plugins
| 2.1.2.2. |  | nagiosgraph
| 2.1.2.3. |  | rrdtool
| 2.1.2.4. |  | drraw.cgi
| 2.1.2.5. |  | Perl modules
| 2.1.3. |  | Installing the Owl Monitor Software
| 2.1.3.1. |  | Unpacking the Owl Monitor Software
| 2.1.3.2. |  | owl-dnswatch
| 2.1.3.3. |  | owl-perfdata
| 2.1.3.4. |  | owl-newsensor
| 2.1.3.5. |  | owl-transfer-mgr
| 2.1.3.6. |  | Data-Archiving Programs
| 2.2. |  | Modifying Configuration Files
| 2.2.1. |  | Save Files!
| 2.2.2. |  | nagios.cfg (Nagios)
| 2.2.3. |  | cgi.cfg (Nagios)
| 2.2.4. |  | resource.cfg (Nagios)
| 2.2.5. |  | share/config.inc.php (Nagios)
| 2.2.6. |  | nagiosgraph.conf (nagiosgraph)
| 2.2.7. |  | map (nagiosgraph)
| 2.2.8. |  | htpasswd.users (Apache)
| 3. |  | An Interlude on Sensor Queries
| 3.1. |  | Gathering and Storing Sensor Data
| 3.2. |  | Transferring Sensor Data
| 3.3. |  | Sensor Heartbeats
| 4. |  | Adding Owl Sensors to an Existing Owl Installation
| 4.1. |  | Create Directories and Files for Sensor's Data
| 4.2. |  | Firewall Configuration
| 4.3. |  | SSH Set-up
| 4.4. |  | Configuration Settings
| 4.4.1. |  | Provide Configuration Information to Sensor Administrator
| 4.4.2. |  | Receive Configuration Information from Sensor Administrator
| 4.5. |  | Test Transfer from Sensor
| 4.6. |  | Wait for Sensor Data
| 4.7. |  | Build Nagios Sensor Objects
| 4.8. |  | Nagios Modifications
| 4.8.1. |  | nagios.cfg
| 4.8.2. |  | owl-hostgroups.cfg
| 4.9. |  | Graphing Modifications
| 4.10. |  | Restart Nagios
| 5. |  | Defining Graphs
| 5.1. |  | Graphing with nagiosgraph
| 5.2. |  | Graphing with drraw.cgi
| 5.3. |  | Adding Graphs to the Nagios Sidebar
| 6. |  | Changing Queries on Existing Owl Sensors
| 6.1 |  | Adding New Queries
| 6.2 |  | Deleting Old Queries
| 7. |  | Owl Manager Commands

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