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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

So, lets get started.

Install GNU Compiler Collection

debian4r2:~# aptitude install gcc

Install Make package

debian4r2:~# aptitude install make

Install Apache 2 Webserver

debian4r2:~# aptitude install apache2

Install PHP 5

debian4r2:~# aptitude install php5

Install PHP5 module php5-gd & php5-cgi

debian4r2:~# aptitude install php5-gd

debian4r2:~# aptitude install php5-cgi

Now, lets create users and groups for nagios

Create user nagios

debian4r2:~# useradd nagios

This creates user “nagios” and the group “nagios”

Create group nagioscmd for command file (external commands)

debian4r2:~# groupadd nagcmd

Add user “nagios” and “www-data” (the user that runs the apache webserver) to this group

debian4r2:~# usermod -G nagcmd nagios

debian4r2:~# usermod -G nagcmd www-data

Create the Nagios root directory

debian4r2:~# mkdir /user/local/nagios

Chown the ownership of the group to the nagios user and group

debian4r2:~# chown nagios:nagios /user/local/nagios

Thats it done, Nagios is now ready to be installed on the server. Follow the next steps to complete the installation.

Step2. Install Nagios Binaries & CGI

Step3. Install Nagios Plugins

Setp4. Setup web interface and CGI Authentication

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