Scribd
Upload
60 views

Installing Nagios Core From Source PDF

Uploaded by

Anonymous c9xqgknHC
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
60 views

Installing Nagios Core From Source PDF

Uploaded by

Anonymous c9xqgknHC
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 3

Nagios Installing Nagios Core From Source

The Industry Standard in IT Infrastructure Monitoring


Purpose
This document describes how install Nagios Core and Nagios Plugins from source on CentOS and Ubuntu servers.

Target Audience
This document is intended for use by anyone wishing to install Nagios Core from source.

Prerequisites
For Ubuntu users, run all steps from this document with root permissions. The following command can be run to switch to a root shell.
sudo -i
Package requirements may vary depending on what type of installation platform Nagios is being installed on.
For RHEL/CentOS users:
yum install -y wget httpd php gcc glibc glibc-common gd gd-devel make net-snmp
For Ubuntu users:
sudo apt-get install wget build-essential apache2 php5-gd libgd2-xpm libgd2-xpm-dev libapache2-modphp5

Download Nagios Core and Nagios Plugins Tarballs


For all systems, run the following commands in your terminal:
cd /tmp
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/nagios/nagios-4.0.4.tar.gz
wget http://nagios-plugins.org/download/nagios-plugins-2.0.tar.gz
This will download Nagios Core, and it's required plugins.

Adding the Nagios User and Group


Next add the appropriate user and group for the Nagios process to run:
useradd nagios
groupadd nagcmd
usermod -a -G nagcmd nagios

Nagios Core Installation

Nagios Enterprises, LLC US: 1-888-NAGIOS-1


P.O. Box 8154
Int'l: +1 651-204-9102
Saint Paul, MN 55108
Fax: +1 651-204-9103
USA

Web: www.nagios.com
Email: [email protected]

Page 1
Copyright 2010-2011 Nagios Enterprises, LLC
Revision 1.0 May, 2014

Nagios Installing Nagios Core From Source


tar zxvf nagios-4.0.4.tar.gz
tar zxvf nagios-plugins-2.0.tar.gz
Change to the new Nagios directory and install the packages:
cd nagios-4.0.4
For RHEL/CentOS users:
./configure --with-command-group=nagcmd
For Ubuntu users:
./configure --with-nagios-group=nagios --with-command-group=nagcmd -with-mail=/usr/bin/sendmail
All systems:
make
make
make
make
make
make

all
install
install-init
install-config
install-commandmode
install-webconf

cp -R contrib/eventhandlers/ /usr/local/nagios/libexec/
chown -R nagios:nagios /usr/local/nagios/libexec/eventhandlers
/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
/etc/init.d/nagios start
For RHEL/CentOS users:
/etc/init.d/httpd start

Create a Default User for Web Access.


Add a default user for Web Interface Access:
htpasswd c /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users nagiosadmin

Nagios Plugin Installation


cd /tmp/nagios-plugins-2.0
./configure --with-nagios-user=nagios --with-nagios-group=nagios
make
make install

Nagios Enterprises, LLC US: 1-888-NAGIOS-1


P.O. Box 8154
Int'l: +1 651-204-9102
Saint Paul, MN 55108
Fax: +1 651-204-9103
USA

Web: www.nagios.com
Email: [email protected]

Page 2
Copyright 2010-2011 Nagios Enterprises, LLC
Revision 1.0 May, 2014

Nagios Installing Nagios Core From Source


Nagios Service Setup
The following commands will register the Nagios daemon to be run upon system startup.
chkconfig
chkconfig
chkconfig
chkconfig

--add nagios
--level 35 nagios on
--add httpd
--level 35 httpd on

For Ubuntu:
ln -s /etc/init.d/nagios /etc/rcS.d/S99nagios

Nagios Web Interface


After correctly following the procedures you should now
be able to access your Nagios Core installation from a
web browser.
Simply use the following:
http://<your.nagios.server.ip>/nagios
And log in with the credentials you chose when adding
the nagiosadmin user to the htpasswd.users file.

Finishing Thoughts
If you have further questions please visit our support forum at:
http://support.nagios.com/forum/
Nagios Core Documentation:
http://library.nagios.com/library/products/nagioscore/manuals/

Nagios Enterprises, LLC US: 1-888-NAGIOS-1


P.O. Box 8154
Int'l: +1 651-204-9102
Saint Paul, MN 55108
Fax: +1 651-204-9103
USA

Web: www.nagios.com
Email: [email protected]

Page 3
Copyright 2010-2011 Nagios Enterprises, LLC
Revision 1.0 May, 2014

You might also like