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Installing Munin on Linux
Posted by MB in Uncategorized on February 5, 2016
I read several articles on how to install the Munin monitoring tool for Linux, and they all seem to over-complicate the install, or end up with an install that doesn’t work.
This article will walk you through installing Munin for a local monitor/node setup on Debian 8 64-bit. Tweak it to your liking. This also assumes that you are running as root. Prefix commands with sudo where appropriate.
Start by making sure your system is up to date:
apt-get update apt-get upgrade
Next, install apache, munin, munin-node, munin-plugins-extra and dependencies.
apt-get install apache2 apache2-utils libcgi-fast-perl libapache2-mod-fcgid munin munin-node munin-plugins-extra
Now, edit the munin config file /etc/munin/apache24.conf
nano /etc/munin/apache24.conf
Change the section as follows:
... Require all granted Options FollowSymLinks SymLinksIfOwnerMatch ...
Do the same with the section, adding the Options line if it’s not preset.
Now restart both apache and munin-node.
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart /etc/init.d/munin-node restart
You can now view Munin data at (your-ip)/munin