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Install NAGIOS in Linux

Nagios is a client-server monitoring system where a Nagios server runs on a host and plugins run on remote hosts to collect data and store in its database. The document provides steps to install Nagios on Linux including installing prerequisites, downloading, configuring, and starting Nagios and the Nagios plugins.

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Install NAGIOS in Linux

Nagios is a client-server monitoring system where a Nagios server runs on a host and plugins run on remote hosts to collect data and store in its database. The document provides steps to install Nagios on Linux including installing prerequisites, downloading, configuring, and starting Nagios and the Nagios plugins.

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Nagios

Nagios Architecture:
Nagios is a client-server architecture. Usually on a network, a Nagios server
is running on a host and plugins are running on all the remote host which
should you monitor.
How does Nagios works?
➢ Mention all details in configuration files.
➢ Daemon read those details what data to be collected.
➢ Daemon use NRPE plugins to collect data from nodes and store in its
own database.
➢ Finally shows everything in dashboard.
Pre-requisites:
• Httpd (browser)
• Php (dashboard)
• Gcc and gd (compiler)
• Makefile (to build)
• Perl (script)
Main configuration file: /usr/local/Nagios/etc.Nagios.cfg
All monitoring things called as service.
For e.g: 5 servers – 4 checks each
Then you have to monitor 5*4= 20 services
Dashboard overview:
In dashboard you can see Host: down, unreachable, up, recovery, none
Service: warning, unknown, critical, recovery, pending
Installation of Nagios on Linux:
To start Nagios core installation, you must have your EC2 instance up and
run and have already configured SSH access to the instance.
Step-1: install pre-requisites software on your EC2 machine prior to
Nagios installation like apache, php, gcc compiler and gd development
libraries.
# sudo su
# yum install httpd php
# yum install gcc glibc glibc-common
# yum install gd gd-devel
Step-2: create account information you need to setup a Nagios user, run
the following commands,
# adduser -m Nagios
# passwd Nagios
Now it will ask to enter new password give ‘12345’ as password.
# groupadd Nagioscmd
# usermod -a -G Nagioscmd Nagios
# usermod -a -G Nagioscmd apache
Step-3: download Nagios core and the plugins. Create a directory for
storing the downloads.
# mkdir ~/downloads
# cd ~/downloads
Download the source code tarballs of both Nagios and the Nagios plugins.
# wget
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/Nagios/Nagios-
4.0.8.tar.gz
#wget http://Nagios-plugins.org/download/Nagios-plugins-2.0.3.tar.gz
Step-4: complete and install Nagios extract the Nagios source code tarball
# tar zxvf Nagios-4.0.8.tar.gz
# cd Nagios-4.0.8
Run the configuration script with the name of the group which you have
create in above step.
# ./configure –with-command-grouo=Nagioscmd
Compile the Nagios source code
# make all
Install binaries, init script, sample config files and set permissions on the
external command directly.
# make install
# make install-init
# make install-config
# make install-commandmode
Setp-5: configure the web interface
# make install-webconf
Step-6: create a ‘Nagiosadmin’ account for login into Nagios web
interface, set password as well.
# htpasswd -c /usr/local/Nagios/etc/htpasswd.users Nagiosadmin
Asking for a password, set a new pwd
# service httpd restart
Step-7: compile and install the Nagios plugins. Extract the Nagios plugins
source code tarball.
# cd ~/downloads
# tar zxvf Nagios-plugins-2.0.3.tar.gz
# cd Nagios-plugins-2.0.3
Compile and install the plugins
# ../configure --with-Nagios-user=Nagios --with-Nagios-group=Nagios
# make
# make install
Step-8: start Nagios. Add Nagios to the list of system services and have it
automatically start when the system boots.
# chkconfig --add Nagios
# chkconfig Nagios on
Verify the sample Nagios configuration files
# /usr/local/Nagios/bin/Nagios -v
# usr/local/Nagios/etc/Nagios.cfg
If there are no errors, start Nagios
# service Nagios start
# service httpd restart
Step-9: copy public ip of EC2 instance and paste in google chrome, in
given way
For e.g 20.1.1.1/Nagios/Nagios
Ask for username- Nagiosadmin
Password-

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