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Nagios :: Mini How To
Nagios is an Open Source host, service and network monitoring program.
Nagios Installation
Below are simple steps to install nagios to our system.
Users / Groups
We must create a new user / group for nagios software.
# useradd nagios
Verify
Next we must create a new group for nagios and apache user
The apache user can be defined by this:
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Nagios Installation
We should create the installation path and transfer the ownership tou user nagios
Downloading the sources
Configure & compile nagios
If we want to use the sample confs from the nagios installation we should do this:
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Nagios-plugins
After we finished the nagios installation we should continue with the installation of nagios-plugin.
So we download the sources from below:
And we build nagios plugin :
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Start Nagios
We can start nagios application by doing this :
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Apache Virtual Host
if we want to setup apache, we simply add the below virtual host:
And add at the apache conf httpd.conf file the below conf line:
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Adding users to nagios web host
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Basic Configuration
Change configuration for nagios group to access / view the hosts
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Verify Configuration
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fruity
http://fruity.sourceforge.net/
Groundwork Fruity is a PHP based web-frontend to your Nagios configuration
$ wget -c http://belnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/fruity/fruity-1.0-rc2.tar.gz $ tar zxvf fruity-1.0-rc2.tar.gz $ cd fruity-1.0-rc2
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