Centreon MBI Web (Interface)¶

The actions listed in this chapter must be performed on Centreon main monitoring server.

Contact CENTREON service desk to get and install the Centreon MBI repository on the Centreon monitoring server.

Installation¶

Run the following command:

yum install centreon-bi-server

Alternative : source package installation¶

If you can’t install the product via yum, use the following package for PHP versions equal to 5.3: centreon-bi-server-$version$-php53.tar.gz

Warning

Follow the procedure as “root” user.

Decompress the package and follow the installation procedure:

tar zxf centreon-bi-server-$version$-php53.tar.gz
cd centreon-bi-server-$version$-php53/
./install -i

License¶

A license file “merethis_lic.zl” is provided by Centreon. Copy this file on the monitoring server and install it:

cp merethis_lic.zl /usr/share/centreon/www/modules/centreon-bi-server/license/
chown apache.apache /usr/share/centreon/www/modules/centreon-bi-server/license/merethis_lic.zl
service httpd restart

The Apache user is different depending on Linux distributions:

Redhat: apache
Suse: wwwrun
Debian: www-data

The initialisation script is different depending on the distributions:

Redhat: httpd
Debian / Suse: apache2

Activation of Centreon MBI¶

The menu Administration > Modules of Centreon allows you to activate the different modules detected by Centreon. One line references Centreon MBI. Click the icon in the column “Actions” to activate the module.

Then the following page will be displayed,(with the last version) click on Install module:

An information page shows that no further procedures need to be carried out before or after installation. Click on Back.

General options¶

Set the following parameters in the General Option, menu Reporting > Monitoring Business Intelligence > General Options :

Tab	Option	Value
Scheduler Options	CBIS Host	Reporting server IP Address
ETL Options	Reporting engine uses a dedicated MySQL server	Yes
Reporting Widgets *	Reporting MySQL database	Reporting database IP Address ( default = same as CBIS Host)

* The connection test will not work at that moment

Monitoring databases access configuration¶

Case #1: MySQL monitoring database is hosted on the Central monitoring server¶

Launch the command below to authorize the reporting server to connect to the monitoring server databases. Use the following option:

@ROOTPWD@: Root MySQL password of the monitoring databases server.If there is no password for “root” user, don’t specify the option root-password.

/usr/share/centreon/www/modules/centreon-bi-server/tools/centreonMysqlRights.pl --root-password=@ROOTPWD@

Case #2: MySQL monitoring database is hosted on a dedicated server¶

Connect by SSH to the database server, and the run the following commands:

mysql -u root -p
mysql> CREATE USER 'centreonbi'@'$BI_ENGINE_IP$' IDENTIFIED BY 'centreonbi';
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON centreon.* TO 'centreonbi'@'$BI_ENGINE_IP$';
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON centreon_storage.* TO 'centreonbi'@'$BI_ENGINE_IP$';

$BI_ENGINE_IP$: IP address of the reporting server.

Warning

If you’re using a MySQL replication for your monitoring databases, when Centreon MBI is installed, some views are created. You need to exclude them from the replication by adding the following line on the my.cnf file of the slave server.

replicate-wild-ignore-table=centreon.mod_bi_%v01,centreon.mod_bi_%V01

Then, create the views manuelly on the slave server by launching the following command line:

# mysql centreon < view_creation.sql

Please go to the next chapter to continue the installation.