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Install Nagios On Slackware

(Slackware 14.1, 14.0 & 13.37)

1. Create the nagios group and user:

groupadd -g 213 nagios

useradd -u 213 -d /dev/null -s /bin/false -g nagios nagios

2. Add the 'apache' user to the 'nagios' group, so that it can write to the /var/nagios/rw
directory ('a' option prevents the user to be removed from other groups, the member of which
he is already):

usermod -aG nagios apache

3. Install the Nagios::Plugin Perl module:

cpan -i Monitoring::Plugin

4. Use sbopkg or install the individual packages using scripts from SlackBuilds.org, and install the
following in this order:
RRDTool
nagios (currently, the package which can be built using a SlackBuilds.org script is
nagios-4.0.8)
nagios-plugin package
nagios-graphing
5. Edit /etc/nagios/nagios.conf and turn off the logging:

CHANGE:
use_syslog=1
TO:
use_syslog=0
CHANGE:
log_notifications=1
TO:
log_notification=0

6. Edit /etc/httpd/extra/nagios.conf, after the <Directory

“/var/www/htdocs/nagios”> line:

CHANGE:
Options None
TO:
Options FollowSymLinks

7. Edit /etc/httpd/http.conf

COMMENT:
LoadModule mpm_event_module lib64/httpd/modules/mod_mpm_event.so
UNCOMMENT:
#LoadModule mpm_prefork_module

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lib64/httpd/modules/mod_mpm_prefork.so
UNCOMMENT:
#LoadModule cgi_module lib64/httpd/modules/mod_cgi.so
(or #LoadModule cgi_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_cgi.so on 32bit
installs)
CHANGE:
<IfModule dir_module>
DirectoryIndex index.html
</IfModule>
TO:
<IfModule dir_module>
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
</IfModule>
CHANGE:
# Uncomment the following line to enable PHP:
#
# Include /etc/httpd/mod_php.conf
TO:
# Uncomment the following line to enable PHP:
#
Include /etc/httpd/mod_php.conf
RIGHT AFTER:
DocumentRoot /srv/httpd/htdocs
ADD:
Include /etc/httpd/extra/nagios.conf

8. Make sure apache starts at boot and start/restart apache:

chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/rc.httpd

/etc/rc.d/rc.httpd restart

9. Set the password for nagiosadmin :

htpasswd -c /etc/nagios/htpasswd.users nagiosadmin

10. (Not sure if this is necessary but, leaving it in until I can test)
Make sure nagios starts at boot and start/restart nagios:
1. Edit /etc/rc.d/rc.local and add:

# Start nagios:
if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.nagios ]; then
echo "Starting nagios..."
/etc/rc.d/rc.nagios start
fi

2. Edit /etc/rc.d/rc.local_shutdown (you may have to create this file if it does not
exist, and make it executable) and add:

# Stop nagios:
if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.nagios ]; then
echo "Stopping nagios..."

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/etc/rc.d/rc.nagios stop
fi

11. Make rc.nagios executable:

# chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/rc.nagios

12. Start nagios:

# /etc/rc.d/rc.nagios restart

Check That Nagios Is Running

Goto http://YOUR_MACHINE/nagios/ and you should see Nagios working.

Add Users
1. Run the htpasswd command for each user:

htpasswd -c /etc/nagios/htpasswd.users bob

htpasswd -c /etc/nagios/htpasswd.users sue

2. Edit /etc/nagios/cgi.cfg and add the user(s) too:

authorized_for_all_services=nagiosadmin,bob,sue
authorized_for_all_hosts=nagiosadmin,bob,sue

(or add “*” to allow all authenticated users)

TROUBLESHOOTING

ERROR: When browsing to the nagios webpage (as nagiosadmin) you get “You do not have
permission”

HINT: Check /var/log/httpd/error_log to see what is failing.

FIX1: Make sure that /srv/www/htdocs/nagios is “drwxrwxr-x nagios nagios”

FIX2: In /etc/http/httpd.conf make sure:

UNCOMMENT: Include /etc/httpd/mod_php.conf

Do the "<IfModule dir_module>" change listed above.

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ERROR: When clicking on Nagios cgi pages, they are downloaded and not executed.

FIX: Make sure the “LoadModule cgi_module” is uncommented as described above.

ERROR: “stderr: execvp(/usr/libexec/monitoring-plugins/check_ping, …) failed. errno is 2: No such file

or directory”

FIX: vi /etc/nagios/resource.cfg

CHANGE: $USER1$=/usr/libexec/monitoring-plugins
TO: $USER1$=/usr/libexec/nagios

ERROR: I've done the FIXes above and it's still not working…

FIX: Didya restart httpd and/or nagios?

/etc/rc.d/rc.httpd restart
/etc/rc.d/rc.nagios restart

Install NRPE On A Target Machine

ON THE TARGET MACHINE (as root):

groupadd -g 213 nagios

useradd -u 213 -d /dev/null -s /bin/false -g nagios nagios

Install nagios via SBo (Required by Nagios-plugins)

Install nagios-plugins via SBo (Required by NRPE)

Install nrpe via SBo

Ignore the xinetd stuff, you have to run NRPE as a daemon on Slackware (unless you want to go
through the headache of replacing inetd with xinetd)

So, start NRPE in Daemon mode:

chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/rc.nrpe

/etc/rc.d/rc.nrpe start

Test NRPE

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/usr/libexec/nagios/check_nrpe -H localhost
NRPE v2.15

/usr/libexec/nagios/check_nrpe -H localhost -c check_users

USERS OK - 1 users currently logged in |users=1;5;10;0

Add your Nagios server's IP into the allowed_hosts list:

vi /etc/nagios/nrpe.cfg
allowed_hosts=127.0.0.1,192.168.1.77 (WHERE: 192.168.1.77 is the IP of
your Nagios server)

chown nagios:nagios /etc/nagios/nrpe.cfg

ON THE NAGIOS SERVER MACHINE:

Add the client machine into one of the .cfg files

I did this:

vi /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg

ADD:

# Definitions for monitoring a linux machine

cfg_file=/etc/nagios/objects/linux.cfg

chown nagios:nagios /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg

vi /etc/nagios/objects/linux.cfg_file
#########################################################
# Linux configuration file
#########################################################
define host {
use linux-server
host_name MyLinuxBox
alias LinuxBox1
address 192.168.1.110
register 1
}
define service{
host_name MyLinuxBox
service_description PING
check_command check_ping!100.0,20%!500.0,60%
max_check_attempts 2
check_interval 2
retry_interval 2
check_period 24x7

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check_freshness 1
contact_groups admins
notification_interval 2
notification_period 24x7
notifications_enabled 1
register 1
}
#########################################################
# END OF FILE
#########################################################

chown nagios:nagios /etc/nagios/objects/linux.cfg_file

Restart Nagios

/etc/rc.d/rc.nagios restart

Sources

* Originally written by arfon

howtos, software, nagios, network monitoring, author arfon

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