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Monitoring systems with Munin:

This installation was done using Fedora Core 5, I think this will also work for newer versions of Fedora as well as CentOS 5.

We need to install munin and munin-node on the targeted system, using
the yum utility will take care of the depedencies.

Install munin node for clients:

# yum install munin-node

Install munin server:

# yum install munin

Edit /etc/munin/munin.conf:

dbdir       /var/lib/munin/

htmldir     /var/www/html/munin/

logdir      /var/log/munin

rundir      /var/run/munin/

# a simple host tree

[localhost]

    address 127.0.0.1

    use_node_name yes

Note: Make sure that htmldir is the same as your DocumentRoot in httpd.conf

Add munin-node at startup:

# chkconfig munin-node on

Start munin-node:

# service munin-node start

Edit /etc/http/conf/httpd.conf:

Alias /munin /var/www/html/munin

<Directory "/var/www/html/munin">

        Options FollowSymLinks

        AllowOverride None

        Allow from all

</Directory>

Restart Apache:

# apachectl graceful

Open your browser and type http://ip.address/munin

Wait for at least 5 minutes for the graph to load.

That’s all there is to it.

Cheers!