How to install Nagios in ubuntu 9.x and 10.x

I- Install Apache, PHP  and  some  needed  libraries

First we will install apache , php and needed librairies

  • Install some necessary compilers using the command :
sudo  apt-get install build-essential

 

  • Install GD Libraries using the command :
sudo apt-get install libgd2-xpm-dev

 

  • Install Apache2
sudo apt-get install apache2

  • Install PHP for  apache 2 :
sudo apt-get install php5-common php5 libapache2-mod-php5

 

Now configure Apache to use PHP:

Open apache2.conf file

sudo vi   /etc/apache2/apache2.conf 

 

and  add this line

DirectoryIndex index.html index.php index.cgi

Now  restart  your   apache

sudo  /etc/init.d/apache2   restart

 

II- Install and Configure Nagios :

Now  lets  install  and  configure   Nagios

First download  the latest  core  nagios  from nagios  website and before  installing create a user to run the service and a group to run external commands:

 * sudo useradd -m nagios
 * sudo passwd nagios
 * sudo groupadd nagcmd
 * sudo usermod -a -G nagcmd nagios
 * sudo usermod -a -G nagcmd www-data

Now install the Nagios tarballs that were downloaded previously:

tar -zxvf nagios-3.2.1.tar.gz 

Then cd the the extracted folder and install

cd nagios-3.2.1
sudo ./configure --with-command-group=nagcmd
sudo make all
sudo make install
sudo make install-init
sudo make install-config
sudo make install-commandmode
sudo make install-webconf

Add a user for the Nagios interface:

sudo  mkdir  /usr/local/nagios/etc

Create a new password

sudo htpasswd -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users nagiosadmin

 

Output

New password:
Re-type new password:
pirat9@pirat9-desktop:~/Downloads/nagios-3.2.1$

Now add  Nagios directory to apache, first open apache.conf :

sudo vi /etc/apache2/apache.conf

and  add these lines :

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

Options ExecCGI

AllowOverride None

Order allow,deny

Allow from all

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

AuthType Basic

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

Require valid-user

 

save and exit then restart apache2

 

 

sudo  /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Install Nagios Plugins :

tar -zxvf  nagios-plugins-1.4.14.tar.gz 

  • Cd the extracted folder and install the plugins
 cd nagios-plugins-1.4.14
 sudo ./configure --with-nagios-user=nagios --with-nagios-group=nagios
sudo make 
sudo make install
  • Create a link to start the service:
sudo ln -s /etc/init.d/nagios /etc/rcS.d/S99nagios
ls -altr

Output

total 20

-rw-r–r–   1 root root   447 2009-09-07 20:58 README

lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    20 2010-04-04 22:10 S70x11-common -> ../init.d/x11-common

lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    24 2010-04-04 22:10 S70screen-cleanup -> ../init.d/screen-cleanup

lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    17 2010-04-04 22:10 S55urandom -> ../init.d/urandom

lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    23 2010-04-04 22:10 S49console-setup -> ../init.d/console-setup

lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    18 2010-04-04 22:10 S37apparmor -> ../init.d/apparmor

lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    16 2010-04-04 22:10 S25brltty -> ../init.d/brltty

lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    21 2010-04-04 22:10 S13pcmciautils -> ../init.d/pcmciautils

lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    24 2010-04-04 22:10 S06keyboard-setup -> ../init.d/keyboard-setup

drwxr-xr-x 132 root root 12288 2010-04-15 01:45 ..

lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    18 2010-04-15 02:09 S99nagios -> /etc/init.d/nagios

drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 2010-04-15 02:09 .

 

 

Please before running the configuration check and copy all config files from your nagios directory to /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/ and /usr/local/nagios/etc/

like

config file ‘/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/commands.cfg’…

object config file ‘/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/contacts.cfg’…

object config file ‘/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/timeperiods.cfg’…

object config file ‘/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/templates.cfg’…

object config file ‘/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/localhost.cfg’…

 

 

 

 

  • Verify the config:

 

 

 

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

Output :

Nagios Core 3.2.1

Copyright (c) 2009-2010 Nagios Core Development Team and Community Contributors

Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Ethan Galstad

Last Modified: 03-09-2010

License: GPL

 

Website: http://www.nagios.org

Reading configuration data…

Read main config file okay…

Processing object config file ‘/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/commands.cfg’…

Processing object config file ‘/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/contacts.cfg’…

Processing object config file ‘/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/timeperiods.cfg’…

Processing object config file ‘/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/templates.cfg’…

Processing object config file ‘/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/localhost.cfg’…

Read object config files okay…

 

Running pre-flight check on configuration data…

 

Checking services…

Checked 8 services.

Checking hosts…

Checked 1 hosts.

Checking host groups…

Checked 1 host groups.

Checking service groups…

Checked 0 service groups.

Checking contacts…

Checked 1 contacts.

Checking contact groups…

Checked 1 contact groups.

Checking service escalations…

Checked 0 service escalations.

Checking service dependencies…

Checked 0 service dependencies.

Checking host escalations…

Checked 0 host escalations.

Checking host dependencies…

Checked 0 host dependencies.

Checking commands…

Checked 24 commands.

Checking time periods…

Checked 5 time periods.

Checking for circular paths between hosts…

Checking for circular host and service dependencies…

Checking global event handlers…

Checking obsessive compulsive processor commands…

Checking misc settings…

 

Total Warnings: 0

Total Errors:   0

 

Things look okay – No serious problems were detected during the pre-flight check

pirat9@pirat9-desktop:~/Downloads/nagios-3.2.1$

 

  • Now start Nagios:
sudo /etc/init.d/nagios start
  • Now you are ready to use Nagios, open your browser and type :
   http://hostname/nagios or http://ip/nagios  

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