Setup Nagios (NMS) om FEDORA

1- First install some tools : httpd, gcc, glib, glibc-common, gd and gd-devel

yum install httpd

yum install gcc

yum install glibc glibc-common

yum install gd gd-devel

2- Create nagios user :

#/usr/sbin/useradd -m nagios

#passwd nagios

3- Add nagcmd group

/usr/sbin/groupadd nagcmd

/usr/sbin/usermod -a -G nagcmd nagios

/usr/sbin/usermod -a -G nagcmd apache

4- Now go to http://www.nagios.org download files .

nagios-3.1.0.tar.gz nagios-plugins-1.4.13.tar.gz nrpe-2.12.tar.gz

tar  -zxvf  nagios-3.1.0.tar.gz  

cd  nagios-3.1.0

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

 #make all; make install; make install-init; make install-config; make install-commandmode; make install-webconf

5- Edit your email admin address :

Go to

vi /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/contacts.cfg

6- Create a nagiosadmin account for logging into the Nagios web interfaceassign to this you’ll need it later.

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

enter the password.

7- Restart the httpd server :

#Service  httpd   restart

The second step : Extract and install plugins

1- Go to you downloaded nagios tools

 tar  -zxvf   nagios-plugins-1.4.13.tar.gz

2- cd nagios-plugins

./configure --with-nagios-user=nagios --with-nagios-group=nagios

make; make   install

3- Now you have to add nagios to Chkconfig

chkconfig --add nagios

chkconfig nagios on

4- Verify if you have a good config of nagios with the command

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

5- Check if there are no errors displayed; then start nagios with command :

service  nagios  start

To simplify the procesure please disable the selinux and iptables and ip6tables

now open your browser and http://localhost/nagios orr http://ip/nagios