Nagios installation
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.
#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
- Create the default Nagios web access user and set a password. The password is **** (just kidding:p)
htpasswd -c /etc/nagios/htpasswd.users nagiosadmin
- Verify default config files
nagios -v /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg
- Start Nagios
/etc/init.d/nagios start
- Start Apache
/etc/init.d/httpd start
Nagios installation on a desktop
- On the 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:
nagios -v /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg /etc/init.d/nagios start /etc/init.d/nagios reload /etc/init.d/nagios stop
- The webinterface can be accessed by going surfing to http://localhost/nagios/