A Dose For Linux: Installation of Nagios on Linux

Download the following packages

Verify the following installed packages:

      gcc-3.4.6-8

      compat-gcc-32-3.2.3-47.3

      libgcc-3.4.6-8

      compat-libgcc-296-2.96-132.7.2

      compat-gcc-32-c++-3.2.3-47.3

      gcc-c++-3.4.6-8

      gd-2.0.28-5.4E

Create user and group for Nagios

# useradd nagios

# passwd nagios

# groupadd nagcmd

# usermod -G nagcmd nagios

# usermod -G nagcmd apache

Installation of nagios

 # tar xvf nagios-3.0.1.tar.gz

# cd nagios-3.0.1

# ./configure --with-command-group=nagcmd   --with-cgiurl=/nagios/cgi-bin

# make all

# make install

# make install-init

# make install-config

# make install-commandmode

# make install-webconf

Installion of nagios plugins:

# tar xvf nagios-plugins-1.4.11.tar.gz

# cd nagios-plugins-1.4.11

# ./configure --with-nagios-user=nagios --with-nagios-group=nagios

# make

# make install

Add nagios to start at boot:

# chkconfig --add nagios

# chkconfig nagios on

Nagios User Authentication:

# htpasswd -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd  nagiosadmin

Verify Nagios Configuration:

# /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg

# /etc/init.d/nagios start

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