Installation

Installation on Linux

Download

You can download the current version here:

After selecting the desired version it will create a command. Copy the command and execute in a Linux terminal. It looks like this:

wget https://download.checkmk.com/checkmk/2.2.0p17/check-mk-raw-2.2.0p17_0.bookworm_amd64.deb

Installation

copy the command from the webpage and execute in a Linux terminal

sudo apt install ./check-mk-raw-2.2.0p17_0.bookworm_amd64.deb

Create a checkmk monitoring site

sudo omd create monitoring

The output will look like this:

Output
Adding /opt/omd/sites/monitoring/tmp to /etc/fstab.
Creating temporary filesystem /omd/sites/monitoring/tmp...OK
Restarting Apache...OK
Created new site monitoring with version 2.2.0p17.cre.

    The site can be started with omd start monitoring.
    The default web UI is available at http://your_server/monitoring/

    The admin user for the web applications is cmkadmin with password: generated-password
    (It can be changed with 'htpasswd -m ~/etc/htpasswd cmkadmin' as site user.)
    Please do a su - monitoring for administration of this site.

Grab the password and change it.

omd start monitoring

Installation on Portainer

Docker Compose file

I grabbed a nice cocker compose file, created a new stack and copied the contents of the docker compose file.

version: '3.1'
services:
  controll:
    image: checkmk/check-mk-raw:2.0.0-latest
    tmpfs:
     - /opt/omd/sites/cmk/tmp:uid=1000,gid=1000
    ulimits:
      nofile: 1024
    container_name: checkmk
    restart: always
    volumes:
      - '/etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro'
      - './odm-sites:/omd/sites'
    ports:
      - '8095:5000'
      - '6557:6557'

The password can be seen in the log (Quick actions). And the password can be changed on the console (Quick actions).

htpasswd /opt/omd/sites/cmk/etc/htpasswd cmkadmin

http://portainer.simmy.ch:8095