Install and Configure Pre-requisites for Nagios

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Jan 152008
 

As part 1 of the four part installation procedure of Nagios Open Source Monotioring Solution, this covers the basics and installation and configuration of pre-requisites for Nagios before proceeding to the actual installation of Nagios binaries.

 The Pre-requisites that needs to be installed and configured for Nagios are

GNU compiler Collection (debian gcc package)
Make package to install the binaries (make)
Apache Webserver (apache2)
PHP 5 (php5)
php5-gd php5-cgi modules
Nagios Users
Setup Nagios Root Directory
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Good Nagios Plugins on the web

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Jan 022008
 

Nagios Plugins are available from download on the main Nagios site and the Nagios Exchange website. However, there are a lot of resource out their on the internet where some good plugins are found. I’ve just the ones I know.

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How to Install & Upgrade Nagmin for Nagios 1.x

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Jan 012008
 

Nagmin is webmin module for Nagios and is a versatile tool that manages and compliments Nagios. Unfortunately, Nagios will only support the Nagios 1.x versions and not the 2.x versions for the reason that the MySQL database support is no more available on Nagios 2.x versions. Nagmin had its very active work done sometime in 2004 and unfortunate it is not taken any further. However, in its last available state, it is still a very powerful tool to administer Nagios. Being an Admin myself, I wouldn’t prefer a different admin tool than Nagmin for Nagios.

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