STEP BY STEP NAGIOS CORE 4.3 INSTALLATION ON REDHAT/CENTOS/FEDORA
STEP BY STEP NAGIOS CORE INSTALLATION ON REDHAT/CENTOS/FEDORA
Introduction
In this article we are going to discuss on How to Install Nagios Core 4.3 on CentOS/Redhat. Nagios Core is a Open Source Software is a System and Network Monitoring tool developed by Worldwide Nagios Community on year 1999. It comes with wide range of features used to Monitor Servers and System Health, Networking devices like Switch, Router, Applications and so on. It’s an Cross Platform application available for all kind of Operating Systems (Linux, Microsoft Windows, Vmware ESX).
Nagios Core capable to Provide below features :
- Nagios Core can be used to Monitor Server Health, Networking Devices like Switch, Routers..etc, Services, Applications..etc.
- Gives alerts of Servers and Applications Outage.
- Nagios Core capable of send alerts of any critical issues through different medium like SMS, Emails.
- Can be download Historical Reports of Network Issues and Outage’s and so many other things.
- Supports Network Protocols like HTTP, FTP, POP3, SSH…etc..
- Provides Log Files Support for each and every operations.
Not only this much, There are so many other features you will able to get from Nagios Core.
My Nagios Core Server Details :
IP Address : 192.168.0.103
Follow the Below steps to Install Nagios Core :
We need to install some packages and dependencies before Nagios Core Installation. So Follow the below steps to do so.
Before Installation of Nagios Core 4.3 we have to install LAMP Stack. to do so refer the below command. Here I used httpd* and php* so that all packages related httpd and php will install which is needed by nagios core.
[root@localhost ~]# yum -y install httpd* php* mysql mysql-server # Installing LAMP Stack
Now start the apache service.
[root@localhost ~]# /etc/init.d/httpd start # Starting Apache Service
Starting httpd: [ OK ]
Start the httpd service on Startup.
[root@localhost ~]# chkconfig --level 35 httpd on # Start httpd service on Startup
To confirm apache service started you can access the default home page of apache by URL : http://localhost
Apache Default Homepage
Nagios Core required some more Packages and Dependencies. To install so refer the below command.
[root@localhost ~]# yum -y install gd gd-devel gcc glibc glibc-common net-snmp
Now we have to download latest version of Nagios Core Package and Its required Plugins.
- nagios-4.3.2.tar.gz
- nagios-plugins-2.2.1.tar.gz
To do so create a directory named nagios. refer the below command.
[root@localhost ~]# mkdir nagios # Create a Directory [root@localhost ~]# cd nagios/ # Changing Directory
Now follow the below commands to download both Packages.
- Downloading nagios-4.3.2.tar.gz.
[root@localhost nagios]# http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/nagios/nagios-4.x/nagios-4.3.2/nagios-4.3.2.tar.gz bash: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/nagios/nagios-4.x/nagios-4.3.2/nagios-4.3.2.tar.gz: No such file or directory [root@localhost nagios]# wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/nagios/nagios-4.x/nagios-4.3.2/nagios-4.3.2.tar.gz --2017-05-21 03:25:17-- http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/nagios/nagios-4.x/nagios-4.3.2/nagios-4.3.2.tar.gz Resolving downloads.sourceforge.net... 216.34.181.59 Connecting to downloads.sourceforge.net|216.34.181.59|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found Location: https://excellmedia.dl.sourceforge.net/project/nagios/nagios-4.x/nagios-4.3.2/nagios-4.3.2.tar.gz [following] --2017-05-21 03:25:17-- https://excellmedia.dl.sourceforge.net/project/nagios/nagios-4.x/nagios-4.3.2/nagios-4.3.2.tar.gz Resolving excellmedia.dl.sourceforge.net... 202.153.32.19 Connecting to excellmedia.dl.sourceforge.net|202.153.32.19|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 11096863 (11M) [application/x-gzip] Saving to: “nagios-4.3.2.tar.gz” 100%[=========================================================================================>] 11,096,863 681K/s in 14s 2017-05-21 03:25:32 (752 KB/s) - “nagios-4.3.2.tar.gz” saved [11096863/11096863]
- Downloading nagios-plugins-2.2.1.tar.gz
[root@localhost nagios]# wget http://nagios-plugins.org/download/nagios-plugins-2.2.1.tar.gz --2017-05-21 03:27:04-- http://nagios-plugins.org/download/nagios-plugins-2.2.1.tar.gz Resolving nagios-plugins.org... 72.14.186.43 Connecting to nagios-plugins.org|72.14.186.43|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 2728818 (2.6M) [application/x-gzip] Saving to: “nagios-plugins-2.2.1.tar.gz” 100%[=========================================================================================>] 2,728,818 3.86M/s in 0.7s 2017-05-21 03:27:05 (3.86 MB/s) - “nagios-plugins-2.2.1.tar.gz” saved [2728818/2728818]
As you can see below we have successfully downloaded both packages.
[root@localhost nagios]# ls -l total 13508 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 11096863 May 9 10:16 nagios-4.3.2.tar.gz -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 2728818 Apr 19 09:04 nagios-plugins-2.2.1.tar.gz
Now follow the below steps to Configured Nagios Core 4.3. First we have to create a User named “nagios“. and then set Password for that.
[root@localhost ~]# useradd nagios # Creating a User [root@localhost ~]# passwd nagios # Set Password for the User Changing password for user nagios. New password: Retype new password: passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.
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Now create a Group named “nagcmd“.
[root@localhost ~]# groupadd nagcmd
Now we have to add two users to nagcmd Group i.e. nagios and apache.
[root@localhost ~]# usermod -a -G nagcmd nagios [root@localhost ~]# usermod -a -G nagcmd apache
You can confirm the same by using below command.
[root@localhost ~]# id nagios uid=501(nagios) gid=501(nagios) groups=501(nagios),502(nagcmd) [root@localhost ~]# id apache uid=48(apache) gid=48(apache) groups=48(apache),502(nagcmd)
After completing the necessary steps let’s go ahead and extract the downloaded Packages i.e. Nagios Core 4.3 and it’s Plugin.
- Extracting Nagios Core Package.
[root@localhost nagios]# tar -xzvf nagios-4.3.2.tar.gz # Extracting Nagios Core
2. Extracting Nagios Plugin Package.
[root@localhost nagios]# tar -xzvf nagios-plugins-2.2.1.tar.gz # Extracting Nagios Plugin
After extract the packages you will get two directories. Highlighted below.
[root@localhost nagios]# ls -l total 13516 drwxrwxr-x. 18 root root 4096 May 9 10:03 nagios-4.3.2 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 11096863 May 9 10:16 nagios-4.3.2.tar.gz drwxr-xr-x. 15 root root 4096 Apr 19 09:04 nagios-plugins-2.2.1 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 2728818 Apr 19 09:04 nagios-plugins-2.2.1.tar.gz
Let’s first Install the Nagios Core Package. To do so refer the below steps.
[root@localhost nagios]# cd nagios-4.3.2 # Changing the directory
[root@localhost nagios-4.3.2]# ls
base config.sub docs indent-all.sh lib module README.asciidoc test worker
cgi configure doxy.conf indent.sh LICENSE nagios.spec sample-config THANKS xdata
Changelog configure.ac functions INSTALLING Makefile.in nagios.sysconfig subst.in t-tap
common contrib html install-sh make-tarball pkginfo.in t update-version
config.guess daemon-init.in include LEGAL mkpackage README tap UPGRADING
Then run configure script to compile the Package.
[root@localhost nagios-4.3.2]# ./configure # Executing configure Script
After complete the above process run make all command.
[root@localhost nagios-4.3.2]# make all
& then use make install command to install the Nagios Core Package.
[root@localhost nagios-4.3.2]# make install
After installation completed you will able to see the below message at the end of the installation which is asking us to install three scripts i.e. init, commandmode and config. Highlighted below.
*** Main program, CGIs and HTML files installed *** You can continue with installing Nagios as follows (type 'make' without any arguments for a list of all possible options): make install-init - This installs the init script in /etc/rc.d/init.d make install-commandmode - This installs and configures permissions on the directory for holding the external command file make install-config - This installs sample config files in /usr/local/nagios/etc make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/nagios/nagios-4.3.2'
So follow the below steps to Install all three Scripts.
- Installing init Script.
[root@localhost nagios-4.3.2]# make install-init # Install init Script
/usr/bin/install -c -m 755 -d -o root -g root /etc/rc.d/init.d
/usr/bin/install -c -m 755 -o root -g root daemon-init /etc/rc.d/init.d/nagios
*** Init script installed ***
- Installing Command Mode Script
[root@localhost nagios-4.3.2]# make install-commandmode # Installing CommandMode Script
/usr/bin/install -c -m 775 -o nagios -g nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/var/rw
chmod g+s /usr/local/nagios/var/rw
*** External command directory configured ***
- Installing config Script.
[root@localhost nagios-4.3.2]# make install-config # Installing Config Script
/usr/bin/install -c -m 775 -o nagios -g nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc
/usr/bin/install -c -m 775 -o nagios -g nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects
/usr/bin/install -c -b -m 664 -o nagios -g nagios sample-config/nagios.cfg /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
/usr/bin/install -c -b -m 664 -o nagios -g nagios sample-config/cgi.cfg /usr/local/nagios/etc/cgi.cfg
/usr/bin/install -c -b -m 660 -o nagios -g nagios sample-config/resource.cfg /usr/local/nagios/etc/resource.cfg
/usr/bin/install -c -b -m 664 -o nagios -g nagios sample-config/template-object/templates.cfg /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/templates.cfg
/usr/bin/install -c -b -m 664 -o nagios -g nagios sample-config/template-object/commands.cfg /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/commands.cfg
/usr/bin/install -c -b -m 664 -o nagios -g nagios sample-config/template-object/contacts.cfg /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/contacts.cfg
/usr/bin/install -c -b -m 664 -o nagios -g nagios sample-config/template-object/timeperiods.cfg /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/timeperiods.cfg
/usr/bin/install -c -b -m 664 -o nagios -g nagios sample-config/template-object/localhost.cfg /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/localhost.cfg
/usr/bin/install -c -b -m 664 -o nagios -g nagios sample-config/template-object/windows.cfg /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/windows.cfg
/usr/bin/install -c -b -m 664 -o nagios -g nagios sample-config/template-object/printer.cfg /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/printer.cfg
/usr/bin/install -c -b -m 664 -o nagios -g nagios sample-config/template-object/switch.cfg /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/switch.cfg
*** Config files installed ***
Remember, these are *SAMPLE* config files. You'll need to read
the documentation for more information on how to actually define
services, hosts, etc. to fit your particular needs.
Now Install Nagios and Apache Web Configuration Files.
[root@localhost nagios-4.3.2]# make install-webconf # Installing Webconf Script
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 sample-config/httpd.conf /etc/httpd/conf.d/nagios.conf
if [ 0 -eq 1 ]; then \
ln -s /etc/httpd/conf.d/nagios.conf /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/nagios.conf; \
fi
*** Nagios/Apache conf file installed ***
Now we are done with Nagios Core 4.3 Installation. Normally Nagios dont have own Authentication System So we have to configure Apache Authentication using htpasswd command. Refer the command below.
[root@localhost ~]# htpasswd -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users nagiosadmin New password: Re-type new password: Adding password for user nagiosadmin
Here nagiosadmin is the name of the user for authentication.
Then restart the apache Package to refresh the Installation.
[root@localhost ~]# /etc/init.d/httpd restart Stopping httpd: [ OK ]
Then start the Nagios Core Service.
[root@localhost ~]# /etc/init.d/nagios start Starting nagios: done.
Configure the Nagios core Service to start at startup.
[root@localhost ~]# chkconfig --level 35 nagios on
Now you can bypass the Apache Port i.e. 80 from Iptables or stop the IPtable Service. Here I am going to stop the Iptable Service.
[root@localhost ~]# /etc/init.d/iptables stop iptables: Setting chains to policy ACCEPT: filter [ OK ] iptables: Flushing firewall rules: [ OK ] iptables: Unloading modules: [ OK ]
We need SELinux in Permissive Mode so to do so you can refer the below command.
[root@localhost ~]# setenforce 0 # Set SELinux in Permissive Mode
Confirm the SELinux Status you can use the below command.
[root@localhost ~]# getenforce Permissive
We have successfully installed the Nagios Core 4.3 Package. But there is some bugs in Nagios Core hence we have install the given Plugin’s which we have downloaded from Official Website of Nagios Core.
So to Install the Nagios Core Plugin follow the below command.
[root@localhost nagios]# cd nagios-plugins-2.2.1 # Change the Directory
[root@localhost nagios-plugins-2.2.1]# ls
ABOUT-NLS ChangeLog configure.ac lib nagios-plugins.spec.in plugins REQUIREMENTS
acinclude.m4 CODING COPYING m4 NEWS plugins-root SUPPORT
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS config.h.in FAQ Makefile.am NPTest.pm plugins-scripts tap
aclocal.m4 config.rpath gl Makefile.in NP-VERSION-GEN po test.pl.in
AUTHORS config_test INSTALL mkinstalldirs perlmods README THANKS
build-aux configure LEGAL nagios-plugins.spec pkg release tools
Compile the Nagios Core Plugin Package and Install it using below commands.
[root@localhost nagios-plugins-2.2.1]# ./configure # Compile the Package [root@localhost nagios-plugins-2.2.1]# make # Make the Packages ready for Installation [root@localhost nagios-plugins-2.2.1]# make install # Install the Package
Once everything done restart the Apache and Nagios Core Service’s.
[root@localhost ~]# /etc/init.d/httpd restart Stopping httpd: [ OK ] Starting httpd: [ OK ] [root@localhost ~]# /etc/init.d/nagios restart Running configuration check... Stopping nagios: done. Starting nagios: done.
Now go to your Internet Browser and enter the below URL.
http://IP_ADDRESS_OF_SYSTEM/Nagios
eg: Here my Nagios Server IP Address is 192.168.0.103 so the URL would be http://192.168.0.103/nagios
Snap 1 :
Nagios Core Authentication
Here just enter the Username i.e. nagiosadmin that we have created for apache authentication and it’s password.
Snap 2 :
Nagios Core Dashboard
OR you can access the same by localhost also.
http://localhost/nagios
Nagios Core Homepage
So This is How we can install Nagios Core 4.3 on CentOS/Redhat. If you found this article useful then Like Us, Share Us, Subscribe our Newsletter OR if you have something to say then feel free to comment on the comment box below.
