Installation of Centreon-Nagios-SAP-Plugins on RHEL5

Installation of Centreon-Nagios-SAP-Plugins on RHEL5

Applies to
SAP ERP 2005 Redhat RHEL 5 on x86_64 Systems

Summary
This 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 Bio
Pascal 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 Contents
1.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 yum yum yum install install install install httpd gcc glibc glibc-common gd gd-devel

Disable SELinux (permissive mode)

2.Nagios installation
Nagios QuickStart http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/quickstart-fedora.html Create nagios account

/usr/sbin/useradd -m nagios passwd nagios /usr/sbin/groupadd nagcmd /usr/sbin/usermod -G nagcmd nagios /usr/sbin/usermod -G nagcmd apache

Install Nagios from source

tar xvf nagios-3.0.4.tar.gz cd nagios-3.0.4 ./configure --with-command-group=nagcmd make all make install make install-init make install-config make install-commandmode

Configure the administrator mail address

vi /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/contacts.cfg

Finish Nagios installation

make install-webconf htpasswd -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users nagiosadmin service httpd restart

Install the Nagios plugins

tar xzf nagios-plugins-1.4.13.tar.gz cd nagios-plugins-1.4.13 ./configure --with-nagios-user=nagios --with-nagios-group=nagios make make install

Check Nagios configuration

/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg Comment line 551 (#time_change_threshold=)

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Install and start Nagios service

chkconfig --add nagios chkconfig nagios on service nagios start

3.Centreon Pre-requisites
Install rrdtool from EPEL website
wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-53.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpm yum install rrdtool

Install php mysql

yum install mysql-server yum install php php-mysql php-pear php-snmp php-posix php-gd php-ldap yum install libpng libpng-devel perl-Config-IniFiles perl-Crypt-DES perl-DigestHMAC perl-Digest-SHA1 perl-GD perl-IO-Socket-INET6 perl-Net-SNMP rrdtool-perl perl-Socket6

Start Mysql

chkconfig mysqld on service mysqld start

4.Centreon Installation
tar 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 proxy

pear config-set http_proxy "http://proxy:8080"

Copy paste the command line from the browser to a shell

pear 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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Enter Centreon Data Storage Database Name : centstorage

Upload the Nagios configuration files from the server /usr/local/nagios/etc to the client PC
nagios.cfg cgi.cfg resource.cfg objects/*

In Centreon, goto resource.cfg files

Configuration / Nagios / Import and upload the nagios.cfg, cgi.cfg and

Restarting Nagios from Centreon does not work

# visudo

Comment the following line

#Defaults requiretty

Configure service performance collection in nagios.cfg In Centreon, goto Configuration / Nagios / Nagios CFG

and set

Performance Data Processing Option Yes Service Performance Data Processing Command process-service-perfdata Service Performance Data File /usr/local/nagios/var/service-perfdata

Start the ODS database

chkconfig add ods chkconfig ods on service ods start

5.SAP plugins compilation

Get the following files sap-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_64 sap_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_moni cp: overwrite `sap-ccms-plugin-0.7.3/src/sap_moni/librfc.a'? y # patch -p0 < sap_ccms.patch.txt patching file sap-ccms-plugin-0.7.3/src/Makefile patching 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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Reporting Screen

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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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