Install Observium and PHP WeatherMaps on Debian 11.

Posted on by Phil

Observium Installation

You may need to install wget on bare installations

apt install wget

Grab Observium installation script and run it.

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

WeatherMap installation and configuration

git clone https://github.com/tobzsc/weathermap-for-observium.git weathermap
cd weathermap/

nano editor.php # enable the editor replace false with true

mkdir maps
chown -R www-data:www-data configs/
chown -R www-data:www-data maps/
mv navbar-custom.inc.php /opt/observium/html/includes/navbar-custom.inc.php
cp /opt/observium/html/weathermap/overlib.js /opt/observium/html/overlib.js

log on to gui “http://[IP_Address]/weathermap/editor.php” and make a new weather map “network.conf”
click on “map properties. In “Output Image Filename” > “network.png”. In “Output HTML Filename” > “maps/network.html”.

Once you have created a weathermap. Run the below to generate the map.

php weathermap --config=/opt/observium/html/weathermap/configs/network.conf --image-uri=http://[IP_Address]/weathermap/maps/network.png --base-href=http://[IP_Address]/weathermap/ --output=/opt/observium/html/weathermap/maps/network.png