Prerequisites for the software installation is remote access to a physical server with minimum specifications of 30Gb of hard disk, 4GB of RAM and installed Ubuntuv17.10.1. During initial Ubuntu installation menu, LAMP (i.e. Linux, Apache, MySQLand PHP) should be selected, also Tomcat, Java and SSH Server. The server will require two configured network interface cards (NICS). One NIC was connected to the internet with a public IP address and the other NIC connected to the customer\u2019s environment. It is assumed that the installer has basic Unix\/Ubuntu and Network admin skills. The installation procedure to install MRTG and associated software was:-<\/p>\n\n\n\n
apt-get install libpango1.0-dev libxml2-dev<\/p>\n\n\n\n
gcc -v
perl -v<\/p>\n\n\n\n
sudo apt-get install libgd-dev
sudo apt-get install libpng-dev
sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev<\/p>\n\n\n\n
mkdir -p \/usr\/local\/src
cd \/usr\/local\/src
cd home<\/p>\n\n\n\n
sudo wget https:\/\/oss.oetiker.ch\/mrtg\/pub\/mrtg-2.17.4.tar.gz
gunzip -c mrtg-2.17.4.tar.gz | tar xvf –
cd mrtg-2.17.4
.\/configure –prefix=\/usr\/local\/mrtg-2
make
sudo make install
cd \/usr\/local\/mrtg-2\/bin
sudo apt-install mrtg<\/p>\n\n\n\n
sudo apt install snmp
sudo ufw enable
sudo ufw app list
sudo ufw allow ‘Apache Full’
sudo ufw allow ssh
sudo ufw status verbose
sudo systemctl status apache2
sudo apt-get install curl
hostname -I<\/p>\n\n\n\n
sudo nano \/etc\/apache2\/sites-available\/000-default.conf<\/p>\n\n\n\n
DocumentRoot \/var\/www\/html<\/p>\n\n\n\n
sudo systemctl restart apache2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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