Introduction
This post is intended to provide you with simple instructions on how to install Nagios from source (code) on Ubuntu and have it monitoring your local machine inside of 20 minutes.
If you follow these instructions, here’s what you’ll end up with:
Nagios and the plugins will be installed underneath /usr/local/nagios
Nagios will be configured to monitor a few aspects of your local system (CPU load, disk usage, etc.)
The Nagios web interface will be accessible at http://localhost/nagios/
Required Packages
Make sure you’ve installed the following packages on your Ubuntu installation before continuing.
apache 2.
gcc compiler and development libraries.
gd development libraries.
Preparing Your System First you need to install the following packages
$sudo apt-get install apache2 (apache installation )
$sudo apt-get install build-essential
$sudo apt-get install libgd2-xpm-dev
1) Create Account Information
Become the root user.
sudo -s
Create a new nagios user account and give it a password.
#/usr/sbin/useradd nagios
#passwd nagios
On Ubuntu server edition , you will need to also add a nagios group (it’s not created by default). You should be able to skip this step on desktop editions of Ubuntu.
#/usr/sbin/groupadd nagios
#/usr/sbin/usermod -G nagios nagios
Create a new nagcmd group for allowing external commands to be submitted through the web interface. Add both the nagios user and the apache user to the group.
#/usr/sbin/groupadd nagcmd
#/usr/sbin/usermod -G nagcmd nagios
#/usr/sbin/usermod -G nagcmd www-data
2) Download Nagios and treate a directory for storing the downloads.
#mkdir /downloads
#cd /downloads
Download the source code tarballs of both Nagios and the Nagios plugins (visit http://www.nagios.org/download/ for links to the latest versions). At the time of writing, the latest versions of Nagios and the Nagios plugins were 3.2.3 and 1.4.15, respectively.
#wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/nagios/files/nagios-3.x/nagios-3.2.3/nagios-3.2.3.tar.gz
#wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/nagiosplug/files/nagiosplug/1.4.15/nagios-plugins-1.4.15.tar.gz
3) Compile and Install Nagios
Extract the Nagios source code tarball.
#cd ~/downloads
#tar xzf nagios-3.2.3.tar.gz
#cd nagios-3.2.3
Run the Nagios configure script, passing the name of the group you created earlier like so:
#
Compile the Nagios source code.
#make all
Install binaries, init script, sample config files and set permissions on the external command directory.
#make install
#make install-init
#make install-config
#make install-commandmode
Don’t start Nagios yet - there’s still more that needs to be done…
4) Customize Configuration
Sample configuration files have now been installed in the /usr/local/nagios/etc directory. These sample files should work fine for getting started with Nagios. You’ll need to make just one change before you proceed…
Edit the /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/contacts.cfg config file with your favorite editor and change the email address associated with the nagiosadmin contact definition to the address you’d like to use for receiving alerts.
#vi /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/contacts.cfg
5) Configure the Web Interface
Install the Nagios web config file in the Apache conf.d directory.
#make install-webconf
Create a nagiosadmin account for logging into the Nagios web interface. Remember the password you assign to this account - you’ll need it later.
#htpasswd -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users nagiosadmin
Restart Apache to make the new settings take effect.
#/etc/init.d/apache2 reload
6) Compile and Install the Nagios Plugins
Extract the Nagios plugins source code tarball.
#cd ~/downloads
#tar xzf nagios-plugins-1.4.15.tar.gz
#cd nagios-plugins-1.4.15
Compile and install the plugins.
#
#make
#make install
7) Start Nagios
Configure Nagios to automatically start when the system boots.
#ln -s /etc/init.d/nagios /etc/rcS.d/S99nagios
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.
#/etc/init.d/nagios start
Login to the Web Interface
You should now be able to access the Nagios web interface at the URL below. You’ll be prompted for the username (nagiosadmin) and password you specified earlier.
http://localhost/nagios/
Now Nagios instalation is complete .
Thanks ,
This post is intended to provide you with simple instructions on how to install Nagios from source (code) on Ubuntu and have it monitoring your local machine inside of 20 minutes.
If you follow these instructions, here’s what you’ll end up with:
Nagios and the plugins will be installed underneath /usr/local/nagios
Nagios will be configured to monitor a few aspects of your local system (CPU load, disk usage, etc.)
The Nagios web interface will be accessible at http://localhost/nagios/
Required Packages
Make sure you’ve installed the following packages on your Ubuntu installation before continuing.
apache 2.
gcc compiler and development libraries.
gd development libraries.
Preparing Your System First you need to install the following packages
$sudo apt-get install apache2 (apache installation )
$sudo apt-get install build-essential
$sudo apt-get install libgd2-xpm-dev
1) Create Account Information
Become the root user.
sudo -s
Create a new nagios user account and give it a password.
#/usr/sbin/useradd nagios
#passwd nagios
On Ubuntu server edition , you will need to also add a nagios group (it’s not created by default). You should be able to skip this step on desktop editions of Ubuntu.
#/usr/sbin/groupadd nagios
#/usr/sbin/usermod -G nagios nagios
Create a new nagcmd group for allowing external commands to be submitted through the web interface. Add both the nagios user and the apache user to the group.
#/usr/sbin/groupadd nagcmd
#/usr/sbin/usermod -G nagcmd nagios
#/usr/sbin/usermod -G nagcmd www-data
2) Download Nagios and treate a directory for storing the downloads.
#mkdir /downloads
#cd /downloads
Download the source code tarballs of both Nagios and the Nagios plugins (visit http://www.nagios.org/download/ for links to the latest versions). At the time of writing, the latest versions of Nagios and the Nagios plugins were 3.2.3 and 1.4.15, respectively.
#wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/nagios/files/nagios-3.x/nagios-3.2.3/nagios-3.2.3.tar.gz
#wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/nagiosplug/files/nagiosplug/1.4.15/nagios-plugins-1.4.15.tar.gz
3) Compile and Install Nagios
Extract the Nagios source code tarball.
#cd ~/downloads
#tar xzf nagios-3.2.3.tar.gz
#cd nagios-3.2.3
Run the Nagios configure script, passing the name of the group you created earlier like so:
#
./configure --with-command-group=nagcmdCompile the Nagios source code.
#make all
Install binaries, init script, sample config files and set permissions on the external command directory.
#make install
#make install-init
#make install-config
#make install-commandmode
Don’t start Nagios yet - there’s still more that needs to be done…
4) Customize Configuration
Sample configuration files have now been installed in the /usr/local/nagios/etc directory. These sample files should work fine for getting started with Nagios. You’ll need to make just one change before you proceed…
Edit the /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/contacts.cfg config file with your favorite editor and change the email address associated with the nagiosadmin contact definition to the address you’d like to use for receiving alerts.
#vi /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/contacts.cfg
5) Configure the Web Interface
Install the Nagios web config file in the Apache conf.d directory.
#make install-webconf
Create a nagiosadmin account for logging into the Nagios web interface. Remember the password you assign to this account - you’ll need it later.
#htpasswd -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users nagiosadmin
Restart Apache to make the new settings take effect.
#/etc/init.d/apache2 reload
6) Compile and Install the Nagios Plugins
Extract the Nagios plugins source code tarball.
#cd ~/downloads
#tar xzf nagios-plugins-1.4.15.tar.gz
#cd nagios-plugins-1.4.15
Compile and install the plugins.
#
./configure --with-nagios-user=nagios --with-nagios-group=nagios#make
#make install
7) Start Nagios
Configure Nagios to automatically start when the system boots.
#ln -s /etc/init.d/nagios /etc/rcS.d/S99nagios
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.
#/etc/init.d/nagios start
Login to the Web Interface
You should now be able to access the Nagios web interface at the URL below. You’ll be prompted for the username (nagiosadmin) and password you specified earlier.
http://localhost/nagios/
Now Nagios instalation is complete .
Thanks ,
can u please provide me information to add host and device in nagios .
ReplyDeleteThanks,
sunip
Process adding host is as follows :-
ReplyDeleteAdding Host in Nagios System ,
edit /usr/local/nagios/hosts.cfg file
#vi /usr/local/nagios/hosts.cfg
and add following lines
define host{
use generic-host
host_name gw1.yourdomain.com
alias Gateway Router
address 10.0.0.1
check_command check-host-alive
max_check_attempts 20
notification_interval 240
notification_period 24x7
notification_options d,u,r
}
define host{
use generic-host
host_name mail.yourdomain.com
alias Mail Server
address 10.0.0.100
check_command check-host-alive
max_check_attempts 20
notification_interval 240
notification_period 24x7
notification_options d,u,r
}
Host is added in your system ,