> How To Install Groundwork Monitor Community Edition 5.3 CentOS

All About Groundwork Monitor Community Edition 5.3

GroundWork Monitor 5.3 includes updates to many Open Source projects included in the suite.
Nagios 3.0.6 provides numerous new features and improvements as outlined below and at
www.nagios.org.

In particular the processing of active service checks is much improved when compared to previous Monitor releases.
The Monarch application has seen numerous functional improvements and fixes including support for more flexible time period specifications. This can be found in the “Time Periods” section of the Configuration application.

GroundWork Monitor 5.3 is no longer packaged as RPMs and most software prerequisites including MySQL and the Java JDK are now integrated into the installation binary. Two installation packages are available, one for 32 bit and one for 64 bit architectures – these packages are not Linux distribution specific. The install root for GroundWork Monitor remains /usr/local/groundwork/ in this release but many of the lower-level directories have changed to aid maintainability.

OS Supported by GWMOS

GWMOS currently supported CentOS, RHEL, Ubuntu
GWMOS also supported VMWARE instance.

Download GWMOS

Code:

For 32 bit OS, You can download it from this URL below :
http://superb-east.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gwmos/groundwork-5.3.0-br46-gw333-linux-32-installer.bin

For 64 bit OS, You can download it from this URL below :
http://superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gwmos/groundwork-5.3.0-br46-gw327-linux-64-installer.bin

GWMOS Installation

Login as root
Change the permissions of the binary to executable

Code:

#chmod +x groundwork-5.3.0-br46-gw333-linux-32-installer.bin

GWMOS comes with 3 option installation : text mode, gui and unattended install
In this case, we will using text mode for the installation

Code:

#./groundwork-5.3.0-br46-gw333-linux-32-installer.bin

If everything goes smoothly, You are done installing GWMOS.

Groundwork Services

All groundwork services are started by the following bootstrap script:

Code:

#/etc/init.d/groundwork {start|stop}

This script may be called from the command line to control any component individually by specifying the component name on the command line.

Example: restarting Nagios

Code:

#/etc/init.d/groundwork restart nagios

Individual services (MySQL, Apache, gwservices) may be controlled by a separate control script.

Example: stopping Apache Webserver

Code:

cd /usr/local/groundwork
./ctlscript.sh stop apache
./ctlscript.sh start apache

The same command can be used to start and stop gwservices, nagios, nsca and mysql.