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== Nagios Installation ==

=== Installation by hand of Nagios server ===

*When adding the rpms for nagios by hand (eg. on nagios.iihe.ac.be) following commands need to be run.
<pre>
#rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm #for 32bit machine
rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS//rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm #for 64bit machine
yum install httpd php gcc glibc glibc-common gd gd-devel #install apache
yum install nagios nagios-plugins nagios-plugins-setuid #install nagios
</pre>

*Create the default Nagios web access user and set a password. The password is **** (just kidding:p)
<pre>
htpasswd -c /etc/nagios/htpasswd.users nagiosadmin
</pre>

*Verify default config files
<pre>
nagios -v /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg
</pre>

*Start Nagios
<pre>
/etc/init.d/nagios start
</pre>

*Start Apache
<pre>
/etc/init.d/httpd start
</pre>

=== Nagios installation on a desktop ===

*On the [http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/quickstart.html Nagios Quickstart Installation Guide] a section is dedicated to installation on a Fedora, OpenSuse and Ubuntu machine.

*The ubuntu procedure was tested and is found to work rather well.

*To check/start/stop/restart (after configuration changes) the nagios deamon:
<pre>
nagios -v /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg
/etc/init.d/nagios start
/etc/init.d/nagios reload
/etc/init.d/nagios stop
</pre>

*The webinterface can be accessed by going surfing to http://localhost/nagios/

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