Checkmk for Raspberry Pi
On the release page you can find deb packages targeting the following systems:
- Raspberry Pi OS (formerly Raspbian) "Buster" (armhf) on a RPi 3 and 4
- Ubuntu "Hirsute" (arm64) on a RPi 4
- Ubuntu "Groovy" (arm64) on a RPi 4
- Ubuntu "Focal" (arm64) on a RPi 4
The builds for Focal and Groovy are untested !
If your system is listed you can follow the instructions from section Install Checkmk to your RPi, otherwise please refer to section Build Checkmk from sources to compile a package for your system.
The sources of Checkmk can be found here: https://github.com/tribe29/checkmk
Recommended Configurations
Reduce the number of apache processes
Go to Setup > General > Global settings > Site Management and reduce the number at Apache process tuning to 5.
Install Checkmk to your RPi
The following sections show how to download and install the DEB packages available from this repo. After the installation you could follow the official user guide to set it up and start your monitoring journey.
Raspberry Pi OS Buster (armhf)
curl -LO $(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/chrisss404/check-mk-arm/releases/tags/2.0.0p12 | grep browser_download_url | cut -d '"' -f 4 | grep buster_armhf.deb)
dpkg -i check-mk-raw-*.buster_armhf.deb
apt-get install -f
Ubuntu Hirsute (arm64)
curl -LO $(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/chrisss404/check-mk-arm/releases/tags/2.0.0p12 | grep browser_download_url | cut -d '"' -f 4 | grep hirsute_arm64.deb)
dpkg -i check-mk-raw-*.hirsute_arm64.deb
apt-get install -f
Ubuntu Groovy (arm64)
curl -LO $(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/chrisss404/check-mk-arm/releases/tags/2.0.0p12 | grep browser_download_url | cut -d '"' -f 4 | grep groovy_arm64.deb)
dpkg -i check-mk-raw-*.groovy_arm64.deb
apt-get install -f
Ubuntu Focal (arm64)
curl -LO $(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/chrisss404/check-mk-arm/releases/tags/2.0.0p12 | grep browser_download_url | cut -d '"' -f 4 | grep focal_arm64.deb)
dpkg -i check-mk-raw-*.focal_arm64.deb
apt-get install -f
Package overview
Raspberry Pi OS (armhf)
- Checkmk 2.0.0 for Raspberry Pi OS Buster: 2.0.0p12
- Checkmk 1.6.0 for Raspberry Pi OS Buster: 1.6.0p22
- Checkmk 1.5.0 for Raspberry Pi OS Buster: 1.5.0p22
- Checkmk 1.5.0 for Raspberry Pi OS Stretch: 1.5.0p20
- Checkmk 1.4.0 for Raspberry Pi OS Stretch: 1.4.0p35
Ubuntu (arm64)
- Checkmk 2.0.0 for Ubuntu 21.04 Hirsute: 2.0.0p12
- Checkmk 2.0.0 for Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy: 2.0.0p12
- Checkmk 2.0.0 for Ubuntu 20.04 Focal: 2.0.0p12
Build Checkmk from sources
# build a specific version of Checkmk targeting Buster, e.g.: 2.0.0p1
INSTALL_DEPENDENCIES=1 bash build_check_mk_buster32.sh <version>
# build a specific version of Checkmk targeting Groovy, e.g.: 2.0.0p1
bash build_check_mk_groovy64.sh <version>
Patches
Reduce maximum validity period of site certificates
cp omd/packages/omd/omdlib/certs.py omd/packages/omd/omdlib/certs_v2.py
vim omd/packages/omd/omdlib/certs_v2.py
-CERT_NOT_AFTER = 999 * 365 * 24 * 60 * 60 # 999 years by default
+CERT_NOT_AFTER = 65 * 365 * 24 * 60 * 60 # 65 years by default
diff -u omd/packages/omd/omdlib/certs.py omd/packages/omd/omdlib/certs_v2.py > ../omdlib-reduce-certificate-maximum-validity-period.patch
Remove module navicli
cp omd/Makefile omd/Makefile_v2
vim omd/Makefile_v2
- navicli \
diff -u omd/Makefile omd/Makefile_v2 > ../omd-Makefile-remove-module-navicli.patch
Enable no-semantic-interposition compiler flag for python build
cp omd/packages/Python3/Python3.make omd/packages/Python3/Python3.make_v2
vim omd/packages/Python3/Python3.make_v2
+ CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -fno-semantic-interposition" \
- LDFLAGS="-Wl,--rpath,/omd/versions/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/lib $(PACKAGE_OPENSSL_LDFLAGS)"
+ LDFLAGS="-Wl,--rpath,/omd/versions/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/lib -fno-semantic-interposition $(PACKAGE_OPENSSL_LDFLAGS)"
diff -u omd/packages/Python3/Python3.make omd/packages/Python3/Python3.make_v2 > ../python-make-add-fno-semantic-interposition.patch
Set system architecture to aarch64 in python build
cp omd/packages/Python3/Python3.make omd/packages/Python3/Python3.make_v2
vim omd/packages/Python3/Python3.make_v2
- $(PACKAGE_PYTHON3_PYTHONPATH)/_sysconfigdata__linux_x86_64-linux-gnu.py
+ $(PACKAGE_PYTHON3_PYTHONPATH)/_sysconfigdata__linux_aarch64-linux-gnu.py
- $(PACKAGE_PYTHON3_PYTHONPATH)/_sysconfigdata__linux_x86_64-linux-gnu.py
+ $(PACKAGE_PYTHON3_PYTHONPATH)/_sysconfigdata__linux_aarch64-linux-gnu.py
diff -u omd/packages/Python3/Python3.make omd/packages/Python3/Python3.make_v2 > ../python-make-set-aarch64-architecture.patch
Set system architecture to arm in python build
cp omd/packages/Python3/Python3.make omd/packages/Python3/Python3.make_v2
vim omd/packages/Python3/Python3.make_v2
- $(PACKAGE_PYTHON3_PYTHONPATH)/_sysconfigdata__linux_x86_64-linux-gnu.py
+ $(PACKAGE_PYTHON3_PYTHONPATH)/_sysconfigdata__linux_arm-linux-gnueabihf.py
- $(PACKAGE_PYTHON3_PYTHONPATH)/_sysconfigdata__linux_x86_64-linux-gnu.py
+ $(PACKAGE_PYTHON3_PYTHONPATH)/_sysconfigdata__linux_arm-linux-gnueabihf.py
diff -u omd/packages/Python3/Python3.make omd/packages/Python3/Python3.make_v2 > ../python-make-set-arm-architecture.patch
Fix lasso makefile
cp omd/packages/lasso/lasso-2.6.1.2/docs/reference/lasso/Makefile.am omd/packages/lasso/lasso-2.6.1.2/docs/reference/lasso/Makefile.am_v2
vim omd/packages/lasso/lasso-2.6.1.2/docs/reference/lasso/Makefile.am_v2
-EXTRA_DIST += lasso-sections.txt lasso-docs.sgml version.xml.in lasso.types.in style.css
+EXTRA_DIST = lasso-sections.txt lasso-docs.sgml version.xml.in lasso.types.in style.css
diff -u omd/packages/lasso/lasso-2.6.1.2/docs/reference/lasso/Makefile.am omd/packages/lasso/lasso-2.6.1.2/docs/reference/lasso/Makefile.am_v2 > ../lasso-docs-make-fix-error.patch