Showing posts with label Installation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Installation. Show all posts

Sunday, July 19, 2009

Nagios Installation in Ubuntu

Download the latest version 3.1.2.

Add new users nagios and nagiosadmin
> sudo adduser nagios
> sudo adduser nagiosadmin


Configure and install Nagios
> tar xvfz nagios-3.1.2.tar.gz
> cd nagios-3.1.2
> ./configure --with-nagios-user=nagios --with-nagios-group=nagios
> make all
> make fullinstall
> htpasswd -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users nagiosadmin
> /etc/init.d/apache2 reload


Get the server to start the nagios when reboot
> sudo ln -s /etc/init.d/nagios /etc/rcS.d/S99nagios


Install the plugin.
Download the Plugin 1.4.13
> ./configure
> make
> sudo make install
> sudo chown nagios:nagios /usr/local/nagios -R


  • Start FireFox
  • http://localhost/nagios
  • Enter nagiosadmin and the password