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    Installing Nagios Core From Source

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    This document provides instructions for installing Nagios Core and Nagios plugins from source on CentOS and Ubuntu servers. It describes downloading and unpacking the necessary tarballs, adding the Nagios user and group, configuring and installing Nagios Core and the plugins, setting up Nagios services, and accessing the Nagios web interface.

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    This document provides instructions for installing Nagios Core and Nagios plugins from source on CentOS and Ubuntu servers. It describes downloading and unpacking the necessary tarballs, adding the Nagios user and group, configuring and installing Nagios Core and the plugins, setting up Nagios services, and accessing the Nagios web interface.

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    %agios ( Insta$$ing %agios ore )ro* Source

    The Industry Standard in IT Infrastructure Monitoring


    Purpose
    This document describes how install Nagios Core and Nagios Plugins from source on CentOS and Ubuntu servers.

    Target Audience
    This document is intended for use by anyone wishing to install Nagios Core from source.

    Prerequisites
    For Ubuntu users, run all ste s from this document with root ermissions. The following command can be run to switch to a root shell. sudo -i Pac!age re"uirements may vary de ending on what ty e of installation latform Nagios is being installed on. For RHEL/ ent!S users# yum install -y wget httpd php gcc glibc glibc-common gd gd-devel make net-snmp For Ubuntu users# sudo apt-get install wget install build-essential apache2 php5-gd wget libgd2-xpm libgd2-xpm-dev libapache2-mod-php5

    "o#n$oad %agios

    ore and %agios P$ugins Tarba$$s

    For all systems, run the following commands in your terminal# cd /tmp wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/nagios/nagios-4. . .tar.g! wget https://www.nagios-plugins.org/download/nagios-plugins-".5.tar.g! This will download Nagios Core, and it$s re"uired lugins.

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    Ne%t add the a ro riate user and grou for the Nagios rocess to run#

    useradd nagios groupadd nagcmd usermod -a -# nagcmd nagios

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    tar !xvf nagios-4. . .tar.g! tar !xvf nagios-plugins-".5.tar.g! Change to the new Nagios directory and install the ac!ages# cd nagios For RHEL/ ent!S users# ./configure --with-command-group$nagcmd For Ubuntu users# ./configure --with-nagios-group$nagios --with-command-group$nagcmd -%with-mail$/usr/bin/sendmail A$$ syste*s, make make make make make make all install install-init install-config install-commandmode install-webconf

    cp -& contrib/eventhandlers/ /usr/local/nagios/libexec/ chown -& nagios:nagios /usr/local/nagios/libexec/eventhandlers /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg /etc/init.d/nagios start For RHEL/ ent!S users# /etc/init.d/httpd start

    reate a "efau$t User for /eb Access0


    0dd a default user for 1eb 2nterface 0ccess# htpasswd %c /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users nagiosadmin

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    cd /tmp/nagios-plugins-".5 ./configure --with-nagios-user$nagios --with-nagios-group$nagios make make install

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    %agios Ser=ice Setup
    The following commands will register the Nagios daemon to be run u on system startu . chkconfig chkconfig chkconfig chkconfig For Ubuntu# ln -s /etc/init.d/nagios /etc/rc(.d/())nagios --add nagios --level '5 nagios on --add httpd --level '5 httpd on

    %agios /eb Interface


    0fter correctly following the rocedures you should now be able to access your Nagios Core installation from a web browser. Sim ly use the following# http://*your.nagios.server.ip+/nagios 0nd log in with the credentials you chose when adding the nagiosadmin user to the ht asswd.users file.

    )inishing Thoughts
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