This guide will help you install Bischeck for op5 Monitor.
To be able to use bischeck and the benifits of dynamic thresholds bischeck must first be installed and NSCA needs to be configured. This guide requires basic linux skills.
This is an unsupported plugin. More information about the bischeck plugin can be found at the bischeck github page or at the bischeck.org.
Install bischeck on op5 Monitor
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Install the bischeck package:
yum
install
bischeck
- Make sure you have your hostname added to /etc/hosts. Bischeckd will not start without this.
-
Set permissions and ownership on the bischeck folder:
chmod
744 -R
/opt/monitor/op5/bischeck
;
chown
monitor:root -R
/opt/monitor/op5/bischeck
-
Start up bischeckd with:
service bischeckd start
Configure NSCA
For bischeck to work you need to make a couple of configuration changes.
- Open /etc/nsca.cfg and change:
decryption_method=14
to
decryption_method=3
There are only 3 supported methods with bischeck, 0,1 and 3. 0 = no encryption, 1 = XOR and 3 = 3DES. If using decryption_method=3 causes performance issues lower the decryption method to 0 or 1.
- Either change the password parameter in the same file to something else or copy the on already set.
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Restart nsca
service nsca restart
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Open up the file /opt/monitor/op5/bischeck/etc/servers.xml and edit the following two properties, here we assume that you are using encryption method 3 and has not changed the default password:
<
property
>
<
key
>encryptionMode</
key
>
<
value
>TRIPLE_DES</
value
>
</
property
>
<
property
>
<
key
>password</
key
>
<
value
>OP5_Monitor_R3Mote_Probe</
value
>
</
property
>
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Restart bischeckd
service bischeckd restart
More reading regarding configuring Bischeck can be found here: Getting started with Bischeck
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Tags:
- plugins
- bischeck
- nsca
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