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| ||<tablestyle="float:right; font-size: 0.9em; width:40%; background:#F1F1ED; margin: 0 0 1em 1em;" style="padding:0.5em;">'''Contents'''[[BR]][[TableOfContents]]|| = 0. Enable the extra software repositories: = * Go to: System > Administration > Software Properties * Click on all the empty checkboxes to enable the additional software repositories = 1. Install dependencies: = {{{ sudo apt-get install apache2 libapache2-mod-php5 mysql-server libsnmp-perl php5-mysql libnet-telnet-cisco-perl php5-snmp php5-gd libalgorithm-diff-perl rrdtool }}} Note: The command listed above needs to be on one line = 2. Setup SSL on the Apache2 webserver: = IMPORTANT – You should always use SSL because Nedi contains a great amount of information about your network. Here is a great step-by-step tutorial on [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OpenSSL#head-ef90d99537150adb4809a3b7f0e554910ddf84cd How to setup SSL in Ubuntu] = 3. Download Nedi: = {{{ wget http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/nedi/nedi-1.0.w-rc1.tgz }}} = 4. Uncompress and extract the archive: = {{{ tar -xzf nedi-1.0.w-rc1.tgz }}} = 5. Move Nedi directory to /opt and fix permissions: = {{{ sudo mv nedi /opt/ sudo chgrp www-data /opt/nedi/html/log/ sudo chmod 775 /opt/nedi/html/log/ }}} = 6. Create a link to the webserver root: = {{{ sudo ln -s /opt/nedi/html/ /var/www/ }}} = 7. Create a link to the configuration file: = {{{ sudo ln -s /opt/nedi/nedi.conf /etc/nedi.conf }}} = 8. Create a MySQL database password: = {{{ sudo mysqladmin -u root password "YourPasswordGoesHere" }}} = 9. Initialize the Nedi database: = {{{ cd /opt/nedi/ ./nedi.pl -i }}} = 10. Answer these prompts: = * MySQL admin user: root * MySQL admin pass: <enter the password you created in step #8> = 11. Edit /opt/nedi/nedi.conf: = * List your SNMP read-only passwords (one per line) * List your telnet usernames and passwords (one pair per line) = 12. Optional - Edit /opt/nedi/seedlist and add your network devices: = List the IP addresses of your devices (one per line) = 13. Restart the webserver (Apache2): = {{{ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart }}} = 14. Run a discovery of your network and gather your device configurations = {{{ cd /opt/nedi/ ./nedi.pl -cob }}} = 15. Login to your Nedi website: = {{{ http://localhost/html/ User: admin Password: admin IMPORTANT - Change the admin password NOW! }}} = 16. Create a script to start/stop Nedi: = {{{ nano /opt/nedi/startnedi.sh }}} = 17. Paste this text into that file: = {{{ #!/bin/sh #start nedi from crontab. Creates logfiles opts="-cob" CMD="./nedi.pl $opts" LOGPATH="/var/log/nedi" LOGFILE="$LOGPATH/nedi.log" LASTRUN="$LOGPATH/lastrun.log" cd /opt/nedi now=`date +%Y%m%d:%H%M` echo "#$now start # $CMD" > $LASTRUN echo "#$now start" >> $LOGFILE $($CMD >> $LASTRUN) tail -8 $LASTRUN >> $LOGFILE now=`date +%Y%m%d:%H%M` echo "#$now stop" >> $LOGFILE echo "#$now stop" >> $LASTRUN' }}} Press “Control-O” and then “Enter” to save these changes. = 18. Make “startnedi.sh” an executable file, and create a directory to hold Nedi log files: = {{{ chmod +x /opt/nedi/startnedi.sh sudo mkdir /var/log/nedi me=`whoami`;sudo chown $me:$me /var/log/nedi }}} = 19. Schedule Nedi to run periodically (every 4 hours) using cron: = {{{ crontab -e 15 0,4,8,12,16,20 * * * /opt/nedi/startnedi.sh # Discover and gather device configurations }}} Press “Control-O” and then “Enter” to save these changes. ---- CategoryDocumentation |
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