Software Requirements
Observium is designed to run under the Linux operating system and is developed primarily under Debian and Ubuntu. RHEL, CentOS and other RHEL-derived distributions of Linux are also known to work. We recommend always using the most recent version of your chosen distribution as there have been significant performance improvements in much of the software Observium relies on.
Basic Requirements
These requirements relate to the latest CE and Subscription versions of Observium. We strongly recommend not running old releases of Observium.
| Package | Minimum | Recommended | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
Apache |
2.2 | > 2.4 | Configuration is different between 2.2 and 2.4 |
fping |
- | > 3.8 | fping is not in the expected location on some distros |
MySQL |
5.6.5 | > 5.7 | For 8.x do not use version below 8.0.12 |
MariaDB |
10.0 | > 10.3 | |
Net-SNMP |
5.4 | > 5.7 | Several persistent bugs still exist in 5.7+ |
RRDtool |
1.5.5 | > 1.6 | Issues may occur below 1.5. 1.6 has much better performance. |
PHP |
7.2.x | > 8.1 | PHP 8.1+ is recommended. |
We strongly recommend that Observium is run on the latest release of your chosen platform. The latest releases of Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, RedHat Enterprise Linux and Scientific Linux all include recommended versions of Observium's dependencies.
Optional Requirements
| Package | Notes |
|---|---|
GraphViz |
Required to build maps |
Ipmitool |
Only if you want to poll IPMI baseboard controllers on servers |
libvirt-bin |
Only if you want to monitor remote VM hosts using libvirt |
wmic |
Only if you want to monitor Windows hosts. See Installing WMIC |