Turn Your Old Laptop or PC Into a Monitoring Server Using Observium – Step-by-Step Guide

If you want to transform your old laptop into a powerful monitoring server Then in this tutorial I will show you guys create a monitoring server using Observium Tool.
If you’re managing small or a large network and if you want to track your devices on your local network Then This guide will help you to do that.
So let’s repurpose your old hardware into something amazing.

Download Ubuntu ISO: https://releases.ubuntu.com/jammy/

Download Rufus: https://rufus.ie/en/

sudo passwd root

su root

apt update

apt upgrade

wget http://www.observium.org/observium_installscript.sh
chmod +x observium_installscript.sh
./observium_installscript.sh

sudo ufw allow 80/tcp

If you cannot access your web panel from the browser on a different machine, you can try disabling the firewall using the following command:

SUDO UFW DISABLE

To re-enable the firewall later, use this command:

SUDO UFW ENABLE

sudo apt-get install snmpd -y
sudo nano /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf
agentAddress udp:161,udp6:[::1]:16
	
service snmpd restart