How to Use Munin in cPanel

Munin is a free tool that monitors the usage of servers and websites, controlling traffic flow so as not to overwhelm the system during a sudden traffic burst. If you run cPanel on your server, using Munin there is relatively simple. It requires a bit of extra work to install, but once you do you can enable it from the cPanel dashboard like any other add-on application.

Instructions

1. Log in to your cPanel account.

2. Click "SSH/Shell Access" to open the command-line interface in a new window.

3. Type "rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpm" (no quotes) and hit "Enter."

4. Return to the cPanel dashboard and click "File Manager."

5. Open these folders in order: etc, yum.repos.d.

6. Click "New File."

7. Title the file "dag.repo" (no quotes).

8. Copy-and-paste the following as the contents into the text box:

   [dag]

   name=Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux

   baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag

   gpgcheck=1

   gpgkey=http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt

   enabled=1

9. Click "Create."

10. Return to SSH/Shell Access and type "yum -y install munin" (no quotes). Hit "Enter."

11. Type "yum -y install munin-node" (no quotes) and hit "Enter." Wait until you see the "OK" message to continue.

12. Return to the cPanel dashboard and click the new "Munin" icon.

13. Click "Enable."

References

• Minun: Linux Installation