Installing munin-node for Windows

Useful Links

• Official Documentation: http://munin-monitoring.org/wiki/HowToMonitorWindows
• Actual useful documentation
• Official Download Link

Instructions

1. Download and install munin-node-win32 from github
   a. You may want to choose a fork with x64 support: mrtaxi
2. Install SpeedFan for Temperature Monitoring
3. Run SpeedFan and Configure for access by munin-node
   a. Configure
   b. xAP --> Enable
   d. UID - default
   e. Hostname - default (should be name of computer)
   f. Host IP - (local machine's IP x.x.x.x)
   g. Broadcast IP - (same subnet as (f) but 255: x.x.x.255)
4. Configure munin-node
   a. Edit munin-node.ini located in C:\Program Files\Munin Node for Windows
   b. Set

• SpeedFan = 1
• External = 0
• Broadcast IP = 0.0.0.0
• UID = [what was in 3d]
• Partial Config file below

5. Run the munin-node service
6. Test SpeedFan and munin configuration
   a. From another computer, telnet to the windows server on port 4949
   b. run fetch speedfan
   c. You should see a list of temperatures. If you get error then something is broken :(

Partial munin-node.ini config file

[Plugins]
; Plugin Section, 1 enables plugin, 0 disables
Disk=1
Memory=1
Processes=1
Network=1
MbmTemp=1
MbmVoltage=1
MbmFan=1
MbmMhz=1
SMART=1
HD=1
Cpu=1
SpeedFan=1
External=0

[SpeedFanPlugin]
;\System\Threads
;------------------------------------------------------------------------------
BroadcastIP=0.0.0.0
UID=FF671100

To Do

• Set up SpeedFan to run as Windows Service