Nagios Install Guide for Fedora??????

[thasyndicate]

Does anyone have or know of a good install document specifically for Fedora? I've tried to install on Fedora core 3 twice using the Nagios install guide, and yes I read it from cover to cover. Also tried a 3rd time using the RPM install of Nagios and the plugins but no luck with that either. If someone has a better guide for installing on Fedora I would really appreciate it.

Thanks!

[doboy408]

YES please a nagios guide would be great
I have also tried plenty of times

manual install is a pain in the you know what

i find yum install alot easier...but the problem is that yum install puts files in different places from the instructions of the manually install.

really need a good fc5 yum install instructions of nagios

[spence]

I have installed nagios on Fedora Core 4 without too much trouble.

Just download the source code and (i put it under /app)
./configure --prefix=/app/nagios
make
make install

Then download the source code for the nagios plugins
./configure --prefix=/app/nagios
make
make install

Simple as that.
If it complains about libraries when configuring/making then install the appropriate library using yum.
If it can't find it then set your LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable in the shell before runing the configure or make
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib

[mwhidby]

If you want to install from the RPMs via yum then this worked for me on FC6:-

To install:-

yum install nagios nagios-plugins nagios-plugins-all

If apache is not already running:-

/sbin/chkconfig --levels 345 httpd on
/sbin/service httpd start (or restart if already running)

Create a nagios administrative user:-
htpasswd -c /etc/nagios/passwd nagios-admin (enter password)
(NB nagios-admin is used in localhost.cfg but nagiosadmin is used in cgi.cfg though
commented out. The online documentation uses nagiosadmin)

Check with web browser:- http://localhost/nagios/ (must have trailing slash)

Make some configuration files from the supplied samples:-

cd /etc/nagios
for f in *-sample; do cp $f `basename $f -sample`; done
cd /etc/nagios/private
for f in *-sample; do cp $f `basename $f -sample`; done

The samples run 5 checks for the localhost.

(Optional: add an email alias for nagios in /etc/aliases
and run /usr/bin/newaliases. See /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg)

Start up nagios:-

/sbin/chkconfig --levels 345 nagios on
/sbin/service nagios start

Have another look at the web browser - click on 'Service Detail' at the
left hand side - it should show the 5 local tests as either 'OK' or 'PENDING'.
They should all eventually turn 'OK' (unless one is actually failing).

You can then configure checks for the hosts you eventually want to monitor.

I hope this is useful to at least one person!

[maartenweijer]

This looks very promising! I will give it a try :-)

[maartenweijer]

Works like a charm :-) Now let' s take a look in the configuration files. Thanks a lot! Very simple and good guide!

[andy11261]

Hi mwhiby,

I wanted to thank you for the information, regarding the configuration steps for getting nagios running on Fedora from a RPM package. I loaded the nagios 2.9.1-fc7 RPM, using yumex, on Fedora 7 (x86_64 architecture), and followed your instructions. It seems to be working great. I'll be modifying the configuration file and trying some of the plugins next.

I was wondering, where did you find out how do the steps you posted?

Thanks,
Andy

Originally Posted by mwhidby

If you want to install from the RPMs via yum then this worked for me on FC6:-

To install:-

yum install nagios nagios-plugins nagios-plugins-all

If apache is not already running:-

/sbin/chkconfig --levels 345 httpd on
/sbin/service httpd start (or restart if already running)

Create a nagios administrative user:-
htpasswd -c /etc/nagios/passwd nagios-admin (enter password)
(NB nagios-admin is used in localhost.cfg but nagiosadmin is used in cgi.cfg though
commented out. The online documentation uses nagiosadmin)

Check with web browser:- http://localhost/nagios/ (must have trailing slash)

Make some configuration files from the supplied samples:-

cd /etc/nagios
for f in *-sample; do cp $f `basename $f -sample`; done
cd /etc/nagios/private
for f in *-sample; do cp $f `basename $f -sample`; done

The samples run 5 checks for the localhost.

(Optional: add an email alias for nagios in /etc/aliases
and run /usr/bin/newaliases. See /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg)

Start up nagios:-

/sbin/chkconfig --levels 345 nagios on
/sbin/service nagios start

Have another look at the web browser - click on 'Service Detail' at the
left hand side - it should show the 5 local tests as either 'OK' or 'PENDING'.
They should all eventually turn 'OK' (unless one is actually failing).

You can then configure checks for the hosts you eventually want to monitor.

I hope this is useful to at least one person!

[mwhidby]

Really I only installed the RPMs and worked out from the nagios documentation (http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/installing.html) what had been done and what remained to be configured. I'm happy you found it useful.