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universal business process dashboard
BPView - a universion business process dashboard for monitoring environments
BPView is a web bassed monitoring add-on which allows you to display and correlate business processes.
BPView is a modular application which consists of multiple components which are:
- BPView web interface
- bpviewd
- configuration files
- memcached
- cache files
BPView correlates host and service checks from monitoring systems. To do this BPView fetches monitoring data from these systems. With this version of BPView the most common Open Source monitoring systems and access methods for fetching data are supported.
You have to make sure that your monitoring system provide one of these access options. If not, please consult the documentation of your monitoring solution to install this extension.
Supported and tested monitoring solutions:
- Icinga
- Nagios
Untested but proberly working solutions:
- Naemon
- Shinken
You can access these monitoring solutions with one of the following methods:
| Method | Port | Protocol | Supported |
|---|---|---|---|
| IDOutils (MySQL) | 3306 | tcp | yes |
| IDOutils (PostgreSQL) | 5432 | tcp | yes |
| NDOutils (MySQL) | 3306 | tcp | yes |
| mk-livestatus | 5667 | tcp | no (*) |
| mk-livestatus | socket | no (*) |
(*) mk-livestatus is not fully implemented yet, so not all features will work in the currennt release.
Installing BPView on supported Linux distrbutions.
Before you can install BPView you have to make that the installation environment is suitable configured.
BPView is supported on the following platforms:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 x86_64
- CentOS 6 x86_64
BPView can run on any hardware or virtualization environment supported for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. To verify your hardware of virtualization platform is supported visit https://access.redhat.com.
In order to run BPView correctly make sure the following minimum requirements are fulfilled:
- CPU: 2 CPU cores
- Memory: 2 GB of memory
The amount of CPU core and memory depends on the number of business processes you want to correlate and can a lot higher as the minimum requirements.
For best performance it's recommended to use tuned for tuning system performance. Please consult Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 documentation on how to tune the operating system.
All of the packages BPView depends on are installed as dependencies when installing the BPView RPM package. In order to be able to resolve these dependencies some repositories are required:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Server
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Server Optional
- Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6
Consult Red Hat and Fedora documentation on how to add these channels to your system.
There is no support for SELinux yet. This will be added in a later release.
BPView provides a web interface and therefore the following ports needs to be opened in iptables.
| Service | Port | Protocol |
|---|---|---|
| http | 80 | tcp |
| https | 443 | tcp |
Using BPView via a secure channel (https) isn't required, but highly recommended. Consult Apache documentation on how to enable SSL for your webserver.
To open a port use the following command:
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
Information on how to download BPView.
There is no yum repository available at the moment. This will follow in later version of BPView.
For downloading BPView visit Github pages located at https://github.com/BPView/BPView/releases/. Download the latest RPM using wget:
wget https://github.com/BPView/BPView/releases/download/bpview-0.12.1/bpview-0.12.1-2.1.x86_64.rpm
After downloading the BPView package it can be installed as described in next section.
The yum command will be used to install BPView and all it's dependencies:
yum localinstall bpview-0.12.1-2.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
Afterwards BPView is installed on your system and you can start configuring it.
Starting bpviewd, memcached and httpd (to restart them use restart instead of start):
service bpviewd start
service memcached start
service httpd start
Also make sure these tools are started automatically after a system reboot:
chkconfig bpviewd on
chkconfig memcached on
chkconfig httpd on
BPView provides configuration for Apache webserver, but doesn't install, activate and configure mod_ssl per default. Anyhow, it's highly recommended to activate TLS encrypted connection to your webserver. So please activate mod_ssl manually and restart Apache.
- René Koch (scrat14) [email protected]
- Peter Stöckl (PetziAt) [email protected]
- Max Oberberger (chiemseesurfer) [email protected]
- Roland Klein [email protected]
Parts of this code is sponsored by:
- ovido gmbh http://www.ovido.at/
- ERSTE GROUP IT http://www.erstegroupit.com/at-en
- Siedl Networks GmbH https://www.siedl.net
This software is Copyright (c) 2013 by ovido (c) 2014-2015 BPView Development Team http://github.com/BPView/BPView
(Except where explicitly superseded by other copyright notices) BPView is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or any later version.
BPView is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with BPView.
If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/
The most current version of BPview can be found at https://github.com/BPView