Install LibreNMS on CentOS

Install prerequisites

yum install -y epel-release 
rpm -Uvh https://mirror.webtatic.com/yum/el7/webtatic-release.rpm
yum install -y policycoreutils-python cronie fping git httpd ImageMagick jwhois mariadb mariadb-server mtr MySQL-python net-snmp net-snmp-utils nmap php71w php71w-cli php71w-common php71w-curl php71w-gd php71w-mcrypt php71w-mysql php71w-process php71w-snmp php71w-xml php71w-zip python-memcached rrdtool

Setup LibreNMS user

useradd librenms -d /opt/librenms -M -r
usermod -a -G librenms apache

Install LibreNMS

cd /opt
git clone https://github.com/librenms/librenms.git librenms

Configure MySQL

Start MySQL

systemctl start mariadb
mysql -u root

Create the Database and database user. Change password to a different password

CREATE DATABASE librenms CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;
CREATE USER 'librenms'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON librenms.* TO 'librenms'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit

Disable MySQL strict mode

vi /etc/my.cnf

Add the following in the [mysqld] section

innodb_file_per_table=1
sql-mode=""
lower_case_table_names=0

Enable and restart mariadb i.e.(MySQL)

systemctl enable mariadb
systemctl restart mariadb

Configure PHP.  Set Timezone

You can go here to figure out which time zone you need.

vi  /etc/php.ini

Find the [Date] Section and change the timezone

Example:

date.timezone = America/New_York

Configure Apache

vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/librenms.conf

Add the following, change the server name.

<VirtualHost *:80>
  DocumentRoot /opt/librenms/html/
  ServerName  librenms.example.com

  AllowEncodedSlashes NoDecode
  <Directory "/opt/librenms/html/">
    Require all granted
    AllowOverride All
    Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews
  </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Enable and restart apache

systemctl enable httpd
systemctl restart httpd

Allow fping

cd /opt/librenms
vi http_fping.tt

Add the following

module http_fping 1.0;

require {
type httpd_t;
class capability net_raw;
class rawip_socket { getopt create setopt write read };
}

#============= httpd_t ==============
allow httpd_t self:capability net_raw;
allow httpd_t self:rawip_socket { getopt create setopt write read };

Configure SELinux

You can disable SELinux completely in the /etc/selinux/config file or run these commands to make LibreNMS and SELinux play together.

semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_content_t '/opt/librenms/logs(/.*)?'
semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t '/opt/librenms/logs(/.*)?'
restorecon -RFvv /opt/librenms/logs/
semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_content_t '/opt/librenms/rrd(/.*)?'
semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t '/opt/librenms/rrd(/.*)?'
restorecon -RFvv /opt/librenms/rrd/
setsebool -P httpd_can_sendmail=1
checkmodule -M -m -o http_fping.mod http_fping.tt
semodule_package -o http_fping.pp -m http_fping.mod
semodule -i http_fping.pp

Configure Firewall

firewall-cmd --zone public --add-service http
firewall-cmd --permanent --zone public --add-service http
firewall-cmd --zone public --add-service https
firewall-cmd --permanent --zone public --add-service https

Configure snmpd

cp /opt/librenms/snmpd.conf.example /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf

Edit the snmpd file and change RANDOMSTRINGGOESHERE to your community string

vi /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf

Enable and restart snmpd

curl -o /usr/bin/distro https://raw.githubusercontent.com/librenms/librenms-agent/master/snmp/distro
chmod +x /usr/bin/distro
systemctl enable snmpd
systemctl restart snmpd

Setup Cron Job and Cycle logs

cp /opt/librenms/librenms.nonroot.cron /etc/cron.d/librenms
cp /opt/librenms/misc/librenms.logrotate /etc/logrotate.d/librenms

Set Permisions

chown -R librenms:librenms /opt/librenms
setfacl -d -m g::rwx /opt/librenms/rrd /opt/librenms/logs
setfacl -R -m g::rwx /opt/librenms/rrd /opt/librenms/logs

Finish Install

Finish the install by

http://your-server-ip/install.php

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