watchmen-plugin-mqtt v0.2.0

MQTT plugin for watchmen

https://github.com/iloire/WatchMen

Environment Variables

WATCHMEN_MQTT_BROKER
WATCHMEN_MQTT_PORT
WATCHMEN_MQTT_TOPIC
WATCHMEN_MQTT_USERNAME
WATCHMEN_MQTT_PASSWORD

Example MQTT Message

The topic format is watchmen\<service-name>\<event-name> where the event names are:

Example messages

watchmen/greghome/Bignion/serviceOk 4130
watchmen/greghome/Bignion/status 1
watchmen/greghome/xyzzy/failedCheck 44
watchmen/greghome/xyzzy/currentOutageMsg Invalid status code. Found: 404. Expected: 200
watchmen/greghome/xyzzy/currentOutageTimestamp 38 minutes ago

Install this Plug-in

Make sure you're first in the Watchmen directory. To install from NPM:

npm install watchmen-plugin-mqtt --save

To install from latest Github:

npm install https://github.com/rgstephens/watchmen-plugin-mqtt.git --save

Raspberry Pi Setup Instructions

I'm running Watchmen on a Raspberry Pi with Raspbian and I'm starting it via Systemd.

Debug

Console messages under Systemd with Raspbian are written to /var/log/daemon.log

Raspberry Pi Complete Install Steps

curl -sSL https://get.docker.com | sh
git clone https://github.com/iloire/watchmen.git
cd watchmen

Raspberry Pi Complete Install Steps

These are the steps to setup Watchmen on a Raspberry Pi

Install Redis

More detailed instructions are here.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y redis-server

Change startup config file /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/redis-server.service

Change the following line to match the Watchmen install directory location:

ExecStart=/usr/bin/redis-server /etc/redis/redis.conf

to

ExecStart=/usr/bin/redis-server /home/pi/watchmen/redis.conf

Start and check the status of the redis server:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl start redis-server
redis-cli ping  or  redis-cli -p 1216 ping
sudo systemctl status redis-server

Install Node.js

There a number of sources for installation instructions. Several options are described here Version 7.7.2 are here.

Install node.js on Raspberry Pi 2 & 3

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_7.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt install nodejs
node -v

Install node.js on Raspberry Pi B+

wget http://node-arm.herokuapp.com/node_latest_armhf.deb
sudo dpkg -i node_archive_armhf.deb

Confirm installed version

node -v

Install watchmen

sudo apt-get -y install git
git clone https://github.com/iloire/watchmen.git
cd watchmen
npm install

Change the data directory in the redis.conf file to the watchmen home directory.

The default redis port is 1216 but this may also need to be changed.

Optionally run the full tests:

npm test

Manually start

redis-server redis.conf
node run-monitor-server.js
node run-web-server.js

Setup watchmen Env to auto-start with Foreman

Setup any watchmen environment variables you want in the .env file:

WATCHMEN_WEB_NO_AUTH=true
WATCHMEN_REDIS_DB_PRODUCTION=1

Install Foreman

sudo npm install -g foreman

Run the Foreman start command to confirm that Foreman is correctly starting Watchmen and browse to port 3000 of the Raspberry Pi to insure that you see Watchmen.

nf start

Create a ste of Systemd startup files with foreman

sudo 

The following files are created:

watchmen-monitor-1.service   # Starts run-monitor-server.js
watchmen-monitor.target      # Requires watchmen.target, Wants watchmen-monitor-1.service
watchmen.target              # Wanted-by multi-user.target, Wants watchmen-monitor.target watchmen-web.target
watchmen-web-1.service       # Starts run-web-server.js
watchmen-web.target          # Requires watchmen.target, Wants watchmen-web-1.service

Enable the service:

sudo systemctl enable watchmen.target

The Systemd start-up files are stored under /etc/systemd/system.

You need to tell Systemd about the new config files with this command:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload

You can start and stop Watchmen with these commands:

sudo systemctl start watchmen.target