Nagios install on Opensuse 11.1
Nagios is a a network monitoring application. Nagios will alert a set number of e-mails when issues occur and will notify the same e-mail when service or host are back to normal. Opensuse 11.1 has Nagios 3.0.6 in the default repository.
Nagios required components to function.
1. A Linux operating system and for this tutorial you will need Opensuse 11.1
2. A C compiler – installed in opensuse by default
3. Apache – we will install this component
Opensuse 11.1 components
1. nagios – The Nagios install package
2. nagios-www – The web server for Nagios
3. nagios-plugins – The main plug-in package
4. nagios-plugins-extra – All the extra plugins
Install Nagios on Opensuse 11.1
I will show three option on how to install Nagios on Opensuse 11.1.
Option 1: Yast Gui install
1. Type on a command line:
yast2
2. Go to the software manger
3. Search got nagios
4. Install the following pages
nagios
nagios-www
nagios-plugins
5.Type on a command line to set password:
htpasswd2 -c /etc/nagios/htpasswd.users nagiosadmin
5.restart Apache by typing on a command line:
service apache2 restart
6.Restart Nagios by typing on a command line:
service nagios restart
Option 2: Yast command line install
1.Type on a command line to install nagios:
yast –install nagios; yast --install nagios-www; yast –install nagios-plugins
2.Type on a command line to set password:
htpasswd2 -c /etc/nagios/htpasswd.users nagiosadmin
3. Restart Apache by typing on a command line:
service apache2 restart
4.Restart Nagios by typing on a command line:
service nagios restart
Option 3: Zypper command line install
Replace step 1 in option 2 with the command listed below
zypper install nagios; zypper install nagios-www; zypperinstall nagios-plugins
then follow the rest of option 2.

Nagios Install on openSUSE 11.1

Nagios is a network monitoring application. Nagios will alert a set number of e-mails when issues occur and will notify the same e-mails when service or host is back to normal. openSUSE 11.1 has Nagios 3.0.6 in the default repositories.

Nagios Required Components
  1. Linux operating system and Opensuse 11.1
  2. C compiler – installed in Opensuse by default
  3. Apache – we will install this component

Opensuse 11.1 Components

  1. nagios – The Nagios install package
  2. nagios-www – The Web server for Nagios
  3. nagios-plugins – The main plug-in package

Install Nagios on Opensuse 11.1

I will show three options on how to install Nagios on Opensuse 11.1.

Option 1: Yast Gui Install

1. Type the command listed below on a command line:
yast2
2. Go to the software manager
3. Search for Nagios
4. Install the following packages:
  • nagios
  • nagios-www
  • nagios-plugins
5. Type the command listed below on a command in order to set password:
htpasswd2 -c /etc/nagios/htpasswd.users nagiosadmin

6. Restart Apache by typing the command listed below on a command line:
service apache2 restart

7. Restart Nagios by typing the command listed below on a command line:
service nagios restart

Option 2: Yast Command Line Install

1.Type the command listed below on a command line in order to install nagios:
yast –install nagios; yast --install nagios-www; yast –install nagios-plugins

2.Type the command below on a command line to set the password for nagiosadmin user:
htpasswd2 -c /etc/nagios/htpasswd.users nagiosadmin

3. Restart Apache by typing the command listed below on a command line:
service apache2 restart

4. Restart Nagios by typing the command listed below on a command line:
service nagios restart

Option 3: Zypper Command Line Install

1. Type on a command listed below on a command line to install nagios with zypper:
zypper install nagios; zypper install nagios-www; zypperinstall nagios-plugins

2. Type the command below on a command line to set the password for nagiosadmin user:
htpasswd2 -c /etc/nagios/htpasswd.users nagiosadmin

3. Restart Apache by typing the command listed below on a command line:
service apache2 restart

4. Restart Nagios by typing the command listed below on a command line:
service nagios restart

Nagios with openSUSE 11.1

Suse has changed some directories to make Nagios fit with the distro.

Nagios directory is /etc/nagios

The Nagios object directory is /etc/nagios/objects

The Nagios plugin directory /usr/lib/nagios/plugins

The Nagios check command works with the command  listed below:

nagios -v /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg


Documentation and Questions

Official Nagios documentation is located at http://support.nagios.com/knowledgebase/officialdocs
If you have any questions, please see our Server Admin Forum at http://www.the-server-admin.com/server-admin-forum

 

Last Updated (Thursday, 04 February 2010 20:42)