How to Install Nagios 4.1 (Monitoring Server) on CentOS / RedHat
Nagios is the most popular, open source, powerful monitoring system. It enables organizations to identify and
resolve IT infrastructure problems before they affect critical business processes. Nagios has capability of monitoring application, services, entire IT infrastructure.
This is Part-1 of complete article How to Setup Nagios Monitoring Server with NagiosQL on CentOS/ RHEL 6/5, In this part you will find the steps to setup Nagios Monitoring Server on CentOS and RedHat systems.
We assume that you have fresh installed CentOS or Red Hat , So our first requirement is to install Apache and PHP first on CentOS 6.5_x64_minimal. Use the following commands to complete it.
# yum install httpd php php-cli gcc glibc glibc-common gd gd-devel net-snmp wget unzip
# service httpd start
Now create a new nagios user account and setup a password to this account
# useradd nagios
# passwd nagios
Now create a groud for nagios setup “nagcmd” and add nagios user to this group. Also add nagios user in apache group.
# groupadd nagcmd
# usermod -a -G nagcmd nagios
# usermod -a -G nagcmd apache
After installing required dependencies and adding user accounts. Lets start with Nagios core installation. Download latest nagios
core service from official site.
# cd /opt/
# wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/nagios/nagios-4.1.1.tar.gz
# tar xzf nagios-4.1.1.tar.gz
# cd nagios-4.1.1
# ./configure --with-command-group=nagcmd
# make all
# make install
# make install-init
# make install-config
# make install-commandmode
Now use below command to setup apache configuration for Nagios installation.
# make install-webconf
We need to setup apache authentication for user Nagios admin. Do not change this username. else you would required more
changes in configuration.
# htpasswd -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users nagiosadmin
Now restart Apacheservice to make the new settings take effect.
# service httpd restart
After installing and configuring Nagios core service, Download latest nagios-plugins
source and install using following commands.
# cd /opt
# wget http://nagios-plugins.org/download/nagios-plugins-2.1.1.tar.gz
# tar xzf nagios-plugins-2.1.1.tar.gz
# cd nagios-plugins-2.1.1
Now compile and install nagios plugins
# ./configure --with-nagios-user=nagios --with-nagios-group=nagios
# make
# make install
Use the following commands to verify nagios install and start nagios core service.
# /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
# service nagios start
Also configure nagios service to start on system start
# chkconfig --add nagios
# chkconfig nagios on
Nagios creates its own apache configuration file /etc/httpd/conf.d/nagios.conf. There are no need to make any changes to it. Simply open below url in browser. [change domain name with your domain orip]
http://mon1.shreeniraula.com.np/nagios/
Prompting for Apache Authentication Password –
Nagios After login screen –
Now you have successfully installed and configured Nagios core service in your system. This much for Step 1 Installation of Nagios core 4.1.1. Please stay in touch for further information.