CheckMK Installation

Checkmk Installation Guide

In this document, we use checkmk raw edition (open source) (CRE).

Checkmk Raw Edition (open source) (CRE)

checkmk 1.6 download

checkmk offcial guide

CheckMK Deployment

Start to deploy checkmk host;
login server; And follow below commands to install checkmk;

wget https://checkmk.com/support/1.6.0p18/check-mk-raw-1.6.0p18-el7-38.x86_64.rpm
yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
yum -y install yum-utils
yum-config-manager --enable rhel-7-server-optional-rpms # enabled = 1 find the repo
yum-config-manager --enable rhel-7-server-extras-rpms # enabled = 1 find the repo
setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect 1
firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-service=http --permanent
firewall-cmd --reload
yum install check-mk-raw-1.6.0p18-el7-38.x86_64.rpm
omd version

Start Monitoring

Beginer’s guide to checkmk: https://checkmk.com/cms_intro.html; Official Reference

omd create checkmk
#if site is created successfully, then following…
su - checkmk
#you may change the password by following…
htpasswd -m etc/htpasswd cmkadmin # /omd/sites/mysite/etc/htpasswd
#cmkadmin/cmkadmin (密码与用户名一样)
omd status
omd start

Open Browser to test your instance by login http://ip/checkmk/ to test;

Install CheckMK Agent on Target Server

Login target server;

rpm installation method

Attention: Below URL “localhost” need to be replaced by real ip.

wget http://localhost/checkmk/check_mk/agents/check-mk-agent-1.6.0p18-1.noarch.rpm
rpm -U check-mk-agent-1.6.0p11-1.noarch.rpm
yum install -y xinetd # if it was not installed
#开通防火墙
firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=6556/tcp
firewall-cmd --reload

Go to Host Web UI, to add new host target on Host Configuration.

Steps for your references:

1. Put IP Address in Hostname Field.
2. Click Save & Go to Service.
3. Click Monitor.
4. Click Activate Changes.

Host Monitoring finished.