Nagios Installation Process (1)

NagiosThe installation process is very simple. Let's take a look at the specific process!

Nagios is a very popular system. It is a free software for server monitoring. Many large domestic sites such as Sohu and Netease are using nagios for server monitoring.

Nagios is just a framework. It is very convenient for the nagios extended monitoring module and alarm module. It can be easily added to service Monitoring compiled by itself, as well as text messages, emails, gtalk and msn alarms.

The following describes how to install and configure nagios in linux REDHAT AS4U4:

Download Software:

Wget http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/nagios/nagios-3.0.3.tar.gz

Wget http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/nagiosplug/nagios-plugins-1.4.12.tar.gz

Wget http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/nagiosplug/nagiosmib-1.0.0.tar.gz

Add User:

Useradd-m nagios

Passwd nagios

Groupadd nagcmd

Usermod-G nagcmd nagios

Usermod-G nagcmd daemon

Compile and install nagios

Tar-xvzf nagios-3.0.3.tar.gz

Cd nagios-3.0.3

./Configure -- with-command-group = nagcmd

Make all

Make install

Make install-init

Make install-config

Make install-commandmode

Set the apache server access password:

Cd/usr/local/nagios/etc/

/Usr/local/apache/bin/htpasswd-c/usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd. users nagiosadmin

Cd/usr/local/apache/conf/

Vi httpd-vhosts.conf

Configure apache cgi as follows:

ScriptAlias/nagios/cgi-bin/usr/local/nagios/sbin

Options ExecCGI

AllowOverride None

Order allow, deny

Allow from all

AuthName "Nagios Access"

AuthType Basic

AuthUserFile/usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd. users

Require valid-user

Alias/nagios/usr/local/nagios/share

Options None

AllowOverride None

Order allow, deny

Allow from all

AuthName "Nagios Access"

AuthType Basic

AuthUserFile/usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd. users

Require valid-user

Restart apache

/Usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl configtest

/Usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl stop

/Usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl start