Installation

SVN

We use SVN as an automatic update mechanism in order to rapidly deliver improvements and fixes to users without the hassle of traditional packaged updates.

The SVN repository is not "unstable" or of lower quality than the .tar.gz releases were, it's just much easier for us to manage and for our users to update. There will be no more .tar.gz releases in future, so you must use SVN. Please check our Using SVN page for more information on how to use it, and what the possibilities are.

Requirements

Hardware Requirements

Please see our Hardware Scaling page for more details.

Software Dependencies

Supported software

Please note that we do NOT support any other software than the list mentioned below. Yes, this does include alternative webservers. Yes, they can most likely serve up PHP. No, they are still not supported.

• Apache
• fping
• MySQL
• Net-SNMP 5.4+
• RRDtool 1.3+
• Graphviz
• PHP 5.3+

Requirements for optional features:

• Ipmitool - Only if you want to poll IPMI baseboard controllers on servers
• Libvirt-bin - Only if you want to monitor remote VM hosts using libvirt

Installation

Installation Recommendation Warning

Please note that all development takes place on Ubuntu/Debian systems, and may be issues with other platforms. No assistance will be given for installations not using Ubuntu/Debian.

Also please note that Observium is no longer released as a versioned tar.gz, but only as a rolling SVN release.

For more information about using Subversion and keeping Observium up to date, check Using SVN.

• Ubuntu SVN Installation -- This is also the guide to follow for Debian or any other Debian/Ubuntu-based distros.
• RHEL SVN Installation -- This is the guide to follow for RHEL/CentOS/Scientific Linux and similar distros.