Tuesday 6 March 2012

Nagios Monitoring Server Installation & Configuration on RedHat 6/CentOS 6

09:03 Posted by Birender No comments

Nagios Monitoring Server Installation & Configuration on RedHat 6/CentOS 6

Download following packages nagios and nagios-plugin

Install following packages will be required for nagios installation

Packages and versions used:
                       a.       nagios-3.3.1.tar
                       b.      nagios-plugins-1.4.15.tar

     1.       Download the following dependency for nagios installation
         yum install httpd php gcc glibc glibc-common gd gd-devel     openssl*

     2.       Now add a user ‘nagios’ and group ‘nagms’
               useradd nagios
 passwd nagios
 groupadd nagms

     3.       Now add nagios and apache to nagms group
        usermod –g  nagms nagios
     usermod –g nagms apache

     4.       Now download the nagios-3.3.1.tar package from              here(http://www.nagios.org/download/core/thanks/)

     5.       Untar the nagios package  
              tar xvfz nagios-3.3.1.tar
     cd nagios-3.3..1/
     ./configure –with-coomand-group=nagms
     make all


           make install


                  make install-init


                     make install-config



         make install-commandmode




                          make install webconf




      Now Nagios server installation is complete. We can now customize our nagios server.

      6.       Edit admin email account
                     vim /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/contacts.cfg

       7.       Now create a user for login using web browser
                      htpasswd -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users nagiosuser
           service httpd restart

       8.     Now install nagios plugin. Download from here(http://www.nagios.org/download/plugins/)

       9.    Untar the package
                    tar xvfz nagios-plugins-1.4.15.tar
          cd nagios-plugins-1.4.15/
          ./configure
          make
          make install
          chkconfig nagios on
          service nagios restart

       10.   To check whether installation is done without error, run this
   /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nag  ios.cfg


           11.   Now open web browser and open the link http://localhost/nagios

         
                    



























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