Setup CheckMK Monitoring using Ansible
This guide walks you through the setup of CheckMK monitoring for the RWS GIS Platform using Ansible, ensuring efficient monitoring configuration.
Categories:
less than a minute , 5 minute provision
Projects: c2platform/rws/ansible-gis
,
c2platform.gis
,
c2platform.wincore
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This tutorial explains how to use Vagrant and Ansible with the checkmk.general
Ansible collection to deploy a CheckMK server on an LXD node running Ubuntu
22.04.1.
Node | OS | Provider | Purpose |
---|---|---|---|
gsd-checkmk-server | Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS | LXD | CheckMK Server |
Prerequisites
- Ensure your RWS Development Environment is set up on Ubuntu 22, as detailed here.
- Ensure the proxy node
gsd-rproxy1
is active for Windows node internet access:vagrant up gsd-rproxy1
Setup
Run vagrant up to create the CheckMK server. This setup should take approximately 5 minutes.
Initiate the CheckMK server creation with Vagrant. The process takes about 5 minutes.
vagrant up gsd-checkmk-server
After deployment, modify the IP address for the
gs
site from the default127.0.0.1
to1.1.5.208
:vagrant ssh gsd-checkmk-server omd config gs show APACHE_TCP_ADDR omd stop gs omd config gs set APACHE_TCP_ADDR 1.1.5.208 omd update-apache-config gs omd start gs omd status gs
Verification
To verify the installation:
- Open the RWS FireFox profile and navigate to http://1.1.5.208:5000/gs
.
Log in as
cmkadmin
with the passwordsecret
. - Navigate to https://checkmk.c2platform.org/gs/
and again, log in as
cmkadmin
with the passwordsecret
.
Additional Information
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Last modified August 19, 2024: how rws cmk todo RWS-765 (e9a7d6a)