Setup CheckMK Monitoring using Ansible

Projects: c2platform/rws/ansible-gis, c2platform.gis, c2platform.wincore

Overview

This tutorial explains how to use Vagrant and Ansible with the checkmk.general Ansible collection to deploy a CheckMK server on an LXD node running Ubuntu 22.04.1.

Prerequisites

• Ensure your RWS Development Environment is set up on Ubuntu 22, as detailed here.
• Ensure the proxy node gsd-rproxy1 is active for Windows node internet access:

  vagrant up gsd-rproxy1
  

Setup

Run vagrant up to create the CheckMK server. This setup should take approximately 5 minutes.

1. Initiate the CheckMK server creation with Vagrant. The process takes about 5 minutes.

   vagrant up gsd-checkmk-server
   

2. After deployment, modify the IP address for the gs site from the default 127.0.0.1 to 1.1.5.208:

   vagrant ssh gsd-checkmk-server
   omd config gs show APACHE_TCP_ADDR
   omd stop gs
   omd config gs set APACHE_TCP_ADDR 1.1.5.208
   omd update-apache-config gs
   omd start gs
   omd status gs
   

Verification

To verify the installation:

1. Open the RWS FireFox profile and navigate to http://1.1.5.208:5000/gs  . Log in as cmkadmin with the password secret.
2. Navigate to https://checkmk.c2platform.org/gs/  and again, log in as cmkadmin with the password secret.

Additional Information

For additional insights and guidance:

• Setting up Checkmk 
• Checkmk Ansible Collection