Nagios4
Download and compile latest nagios from http://sourceforge.net/projects/nagios/files/:
cd /usr/src wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/nagios/files/nagios-4.x/nagios-4.0.8/nagios-4.0.8.tar.gz/download -O nagios-4.0.8.tar.gz tar -xzf nagios-4.0.8.tar.gz apt-get install -y apache2 libapache2-mod-php5 build-essential libgd2-xpm-dev libssl-dev cd nagios-4.0.8 ./configure --exec-prefix=/usr/local/nagios/ --prefix=/usr/local/nagios/ --with-nagios-user=nagios --with-nagios-group=nagios --with-command-user=nagios --with-command-group=nagcmd groupadd -g 9000 nagios groupadd -g 9001 nagcmd useradd -u 9000 -g nagios -G nagcmd -d /usr/local/nagios -c 'Nagios Admin' nagios adduser www-data nagcmd make all make install make install-init make install-config make install-commandmode make install-webconf htpasswd -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users nagiosadmin
Download and compile latest nagios plugins
from: http://www.nagios.org/download/plugins
cd /usr/src wget http://nagios-plugins.org/download/nagios-plugins-2.0.3.tar.gz tar -xzf nagios-plugins-2.0.3.tar.gz cd nagios-plugins-2.0.3/ ./configure --with-nagios-user=nagios --with-nagios-group=nagios --with-openssl=/usr/bin/openssl --enable-perl-modules --enable-libtap make make install
Change startup options for nagios vim /etc/init.d/nagios //add following lines after # Short-Description ... line
# Default-start: 2 3 4 5 # Default-Stop:
Run commands
chmod +x /etc/init.d/nagios update-rc.d nagios defaults
Install nagios dependences
apt-get install -y nagios-nrpe-plugin
Install mail client
apt-get install -y sendmail-bin sendmail heirloom-mailx
At end of /etc/mail/sendmail.mc switch Masq.options with DefaultMailerOpt to be in right order like this:
.... dnl # Masquerading options FEATURE(`always_add_domain')dnl MASQUERADE_AS(`vm-debian')dnl FEATURE(`allmasquerade')dnl FEATURE(`masquerade_envelope')dnl dnl # Default Mailer setup MAILER_DEFINITIONS MAILER(`local')dnl MAILER(`smtp')dnl
And regenerate:
m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
HTTPS enable SSL for nagios:
mkdir /etc/apache2/ssl cd /etc/apache2/ssl openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:4096 -keyout my.nagiosserver.key -out my.nagiosserver.crt a2enmod ssl
vim /etc/apache2/conf.d/nagios.conf
uncomment all SSLRequireSSL
vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/default //replace existing data with:
<VirtualHost *:443> ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost ServerName my.nagiosserver.crt DocumentRoot /var/www/my.nagiosserver <Directory /> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None </Directory> <Directory /var/www/my.nagiosserver> Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride All Order allow,deny allow from all </Directory> SSLEngine On SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/my.nagiosserver.crt SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl/my.nagiosserver.key </VirtualHost>
service apache2 restart
create nagios-www (web pages)
mkdir /var/www/my.nagiosserver cp -r /usr/src/nagios-4.0.8/html/* /var/www/my.nagiosserver cp /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/ /usr/local/nagios/libexec/ chown -R nagios:nagios /usr/local/nagios/libexec/
For debian7 - wheezy
To create privileges for www-data to restart nagios (to reload config from voipmonitor gui)////
chown www-data -R /var/lib/nagios3/spool/checkresults chown -R nagios:www-data /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios chown -R www-data /usr/local/nagios/var/spool/checkresults chown www-data:nagioscmd /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd apt-get install sudo
vim /etc/sudoers //add line www-data after root .. line
root ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL www-data ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/killall, /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios ...
in GUI Settings->Systemconfiguration->:
Enable nagios: TRUE Nagios user: nagios Path to nagios binary: /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios Path to nagios.cfg: /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/nagios.cfg Path to vm.cfg: /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/vm.cfg Path to status.dat: /var/cache/nagios3/status.dat Command which reload config: /usr/bin/killall -HUP nagios run sudo before reload command: TRUE
source: http://midactstech.blogspot.cz/2013/09/how-to-install-nagios-on-debian-wheezy.html