A chef recipe to deploy LibreNMS

TODO: Instalation and configuration of LibreNMS

• Only tested on Centos 7.x and RHEL
• The web administration page is in port 8080 by default
• Fully tested on SELinux. Your welcome ;)
• This recipe is based on installation tutorial RHEL/CentOS + Nginx
• Librenms 1.45v

Install chef

You need to install chef to run this recipe.

$ curl -L https://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh | bash

Login as root user or use sudo instead

How to deploy the CHEF recipe

Firstly move to /var directory and clone the chef project

$ mkdir -p /var/chef/cookbooks
$ cd /var/chef/cookbooks
$ git clone https://github.com/jahrmando/librenms.git

You will should have root privilege to clone in /var directory

Run librenms cookbook

$ chef-solo -o 'recipe[librenms::default]'

Before, check the attributes/default.rb file to see what attributes to override if needed or use sudo instead

Atributes:

default['mariadb']['user_librenms']['password'] = 'Ch4ng3me'

default['librenms']['hostname'] = 'librenms.example.com'
default['librenms']['port_service'] = '8080'
default['librenms']['snmp_random_string'] = 'PaloCocinaPezCaosVerde'

default['librenms']['webmaster'] = 'webmaster@example.com'
default['librenms']['user_admin'] = 'administrator'
default['librenms']['user_pass'] = 'Ch4ng3meT00'

default['librenms']['phpini']['timezone'] = 'America/Mexico_City'

default['librenms']['scanning_discovery'] = ['10.0.0.0/8', '192.168.0.0/16']

Test with Kitchen

Yep, You can test it with kitchen.

$ kitchen test default-centos-73

Tested on:

• CentOS 7.3
• CentOS 7.4

Extra steps

Secure your MariaDB installation, please execute this:

$ mysql_secure_installation

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