Introduction

LibreNMS is an autodiscovering PHP/MySQL/SNMP based network monitoring which includes support for a wide range of network hardware and operating systems including Cisco, Linux, FreeBSD, Juniper, Brocade, Foundry, HP and many more. LibreNMS is a community-based fork of Observium.

We intend LibreNMS to be a viable project and community that:

• encourages contribution,
• focuses on the needs of its users, and
• offers a welcoming, friendly environment for everyone.

The Debian Social Contract will be the basis of our priority system, and mutual respect the basis of our behaviour towards others. For more about the culture we're trying to build, please read the Freenode philosophy, including guidelines for running an IRC channel and being a community catalyst.

Documentation

Documentation can be found in the doc directory, including instructions for installing and contributing.

Participating

You can participate in the project by:

• Joining the librenms-project mailing list to post questions and suggestions.
• Talking to us on Twitter or IRC.
• Improving the documentation.
• Cloning the repo and filing bug reports and pull requests on github. See CONTRIBUTING for more details.

Try It

You can try LibreNMS by downloading a VM image. Currently, a Debian-based image is supplied and has been tested with VMware Fusion 5.

Download the VMware Fusion 5 image at open it, and log in as root with the password root. Enter the following commands:

cd /opt/librenms
git pull
php discover.php -h all
php poller.php -h all

You'll then need to find out the IP of your VM (ifconfig | grep add) and create a DNS entry for librenms.example.com to point to that IP. You can also edit your /etc/hosts file with the following line:

$ip librenms.example.com

where $ip is the IP of your VM. From there, just point your web browser to http://librenms.example.com/ and login with username librenms and password librenms.

License

Copyright (C) 2006-2012 Adam Armstrong adama@memetic.org

Copyright (C) 2013-2014 by individual LibreNMS contributors

This program 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 (at your option) any later version.

This program 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 this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

LICENSE.txt contains a copy of the full GPLv3 licensing conditions.

The following additional license conditions apply to LibreNMS (a GPL exception):

As a special exception, you have permission to link or otherwise combine LibreNMS with the included copies of the following third-party software, and distribute modified versions, as long as you follow the requirements of the GNU GPL v3 in regard to all of the remaining software (comprising LibreNMS).

The authorised third-party software packages under this exception are as follows (their title, location, and license are noted where known):

• JpGraph (html/includes/jpgraph): QPL 1.0 license
• MIBS (mibs): unknown/various
• html/graph-realtime.php: BSD (original?)
• html/includes/collectd/: GPLv2 only
• overLIB (html/js/overlib_mini.js): modified Artistic 1.0?
• scripts/*/mysql: GPLv2 only
• check_mk (scripts/observium_agent*): GPLv2
• qTip (html/css/jquery.qtip.min.css and html/js/qtip/jquery.qtip.min.js): GPLv2