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Application Monitoring with openITCOCKPIT
Velocity Sensor
OpenITCOCKPIT [1] is an open source framework based on the modular Naemon monitoring suite that allows deep insights into applications and IT processes, in addition to infrastructure monitoring. It can be combined with tools for ticketing, change management, and IT documentation.
A commercial version of openITCOCKPIT is available if you need to implement advanced monitoring, such as event correlation or SAP systems monitoring. In this article, we will use the free version of openITCOCKPIT [2].
Basic Installation
In our example, we will install openITCOCKPIT without a cluster connection, but with all front-end modules (see the "System Requirements" box). We recommend Naemon for the installation (root privileges needed) and the operation, but Nagios is also supported.
System Requirements
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS x64 supports the current 3.0.6 version of OpenITCOCKPIT. The minimum requirements are two CPU cores, 2GB of RAM, and 15GB of disk space, which is sufficient for a small test system, as used for this article. Generally, system requirements depend on how many hosts are audited and how many services are associated with them. To cover an average IT landscape and establish a productive system, we recommend at least 32GB of RAM, 16 CPU cores, and 500GB of hard disk space.
Because openITCOCKPIT can be installed using the Apt package manager, the first step is to enter the repository and then retrieve the key:
$ echo 'deb https://apt.open-itcockpit.com trusty main' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openitcockpit.list
Alternatively, you can enter:
$ add-apt-repository 'deb...
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