Nagios Basic Setup
Basic Setup
On fedora or CentOS just install the RPM for Nagios and the plugins
yum install nagios
Edit the config files in /etc/nagios/objects
Check the config files are valid by typing
nagios -v /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg
Start nagios by typing
/etc/init.d/nagios restart
WebGUI Addons
Lilac is a configuration tool written in PHP to manage Nagios configurations
Install Lilac
Add dirctory where downloaded to apache
Run Setup by typeing: http://localhost/lilac/install.php
Note: Fedora 11: php-posix is provided by php-process
Run Lilac at: http://orasos/lilac/index.php
Login to Nagios test server
at: http://orasos/nagios/index.php
User: nagiosadmin
Password: visit
Overview of Nagios Object Definitions