Category: linux

This post will help you to know How to install Nagios Core server 4.4.3 on RHEL 6/7 & CentOS 6/7.

Nagios is a powerful monitoring tool. It will help to monitor a infrastructure.

It will monitor applications, service and entire infrastructure.

Required Packages:

1. httpd
2. php
3. php-cli
4. gcc
5. unzip
6. wget
7. glibc
8. glibc-common
9. gd
10. gd-devel
11. net-snmp

[root@nagiosrv ~]yum install httpd php php-cli gcc unzip wget glibc glibc-common gd gd-devel net-snmp

As we have installed httpd and this will be useful when we access the Nagios core to manage through web console.

 [root@nagiosrv yumrepo]# systemctl start httpd 

Now create Nagios user account using below command:

[root@nagiosrv yumrepo]# useradd Nagios
[root@nagiosrv yumrepo]# passwd nagios
Changing password for user nagios. 
New password: 
BAD PASSWORD: The password contains the user name in some form 
Retype new password: 
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully. 

Now we need to create a group “nagcmd” to setup Nagios and then add the users “nagios” & “apache”   to be a part of group: nagcmd

[root@nagiosrv yumrepo]# groupadd nagcmd
[root@nagiosrv yumrepo]# usermod -a -G nagcmd nagios 
[root@nagiosrv yumrepo]# usermod -a -G nagcmd apache

Ñow its time to start Nagios Core server installation

Since Nagios third party tool, we need to download first for installation using below commands:

[root@nagiosrv ~]# cd /opt
[root@nagiosrv opt]# wget https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagioscore/releases/nagios-4.4.3.tar.gz 
[root@nagiosrv opt]# tar -xvf nagios-4.4.3.tar.gz 
[root@nagiosrv nagios-4.4.3]# ./configure --with-command-group=nagcmd 
[root@nagiosrv nagios-4.4.3]# make all 
[root@nagiosrv nagios-4.4.3]# make install
[root@nagiosrv nagios-4.4.3]# make install-init
[root@nagiosrv nagios-4.4.3]# make install-daemoninit
[root@nagiosrv nagios-4.4.3]# make install-commandmode
[root@nagiosrv nagios-4.4.3]# make install-config
[root@nagiosrv nagios-4.4.3]# make install-exfoliation

Now configure Apache for Nagios installation using below command:

[root@nagiosrv nagios-4.4.3]# make install-webconf

Will configure Apache authentication for nagiosadmin which is default user. Don’t change this username. If you are changing then need to do more changes in configuration file.

[root@nagiosrv nagios-4.4.3]# htpasswd -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users nagiosadmin

Now restart the apache

[root@nagiosrv nagios-4.4.3]# systemctl restart httpd

As a next step need to install Nagios plugins, once installed Nagios core using below commands:

[root@nagiosrv nagios-4.4.3]# cd /opt
[root@nagiosrv opt]# wget http://nagios-plugins.org/download/nagios-plugins-2.2.1.tar.gz
[root@nagiosrv opt]# tar -xvf nagios-plugins-2.2.1.tar.gz
[root@nagiosrv opt]# cd nagios-plugins-2.2.1

Now install and compile the plugins using below command:

[root@nagiosrv nagios-plugins-2.2.1]# ./configure --with-nagios-user=nagios --with-nagios-group=Nagios
[root@nagiosrv nagios-plugins-2.2.1]# make
[root@nagiosrv nagios-plugins-2.2.1]# make install

We installed Nagios core and plugins. So, now will check and verify the configuration using below command:

[root@nagiosrv nagios-plugins-2.2.1]#
/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg

The output should give 0 Errors and 0 Warnings. If you get the same, then will start the Nagios like below

[root@nagiosrv nagios-plugins-2.2.1]# systemctl start
nagios     

Check SELinux mode using below command:

[root@nagiosrv ~]getenforce
Enforcing

If SELinux is in Enforcing mode, Than change it to Permissive mode or disable it like below

[root@nagiosrv ~]# setenforce 0

Now make sure to enable web server permanently in firewall using below command:

[root@nagiosrv ~]# firewall-cmd --permanent
--add-service=http

Execute below command to make affect in firewall changes which we did using our previous command

[root@nagiosrv ~]# firewall-cmd –reload

Finally we have done everything and now will check whether the web console working on not

Enter url like below in your web browser and replace the IP_ADDR with your server ip

http://IP_ADDR/nagios

It will ask for the username and password. Remember that we already created a user name “nagiosadmin”. We can use that to login the console.

Enter the nagiosadmin credentials and the web console looks like below

From the left side pan click on “Hosts” and it will show list of hosts which is added for monitoring.
Since, we doesn’t added any host, it will show only localhost, which is Nagios server like below

Finally we installed and configured Nagios server. Thanks for readin

We are going to see how to use awk command in Linux in this post.

It’s a scripting language and it’s used to generate Reports and Data Manipulation.

Syntax:

#awk <option> 'criteria {action}' input_file > output_file

Awk command to print file content:

[root@localhost ~]# awk '{print}' testfile.txt
Abu 1234
Thahir 5678
Tharun 9101
Rishi 2345

Above example is only to print all the content of a file.

Awk command to print the lines which match with the given pattern:

[root@localhost ~]# awk '/Rishi/{print}' testfile.txt
Rishi 2345

awk command to split a line to fields:

$1 will be considered the first word as the first field in a line. accordingly $2,$3, etc…

[root@localhost ~]# awk '{print $2}' testfile.txt
1234
5678
9101
2345
[root@localhost ~]#

Built-in variables in awk:

NF:     We can print the last field of the lines by using NF in awk command

Example: 

[root@localhost ~]# awk '{print $NF}' testfile.txt
25000
30000
20000
15000

NR:     Using NR built-in option, we can print the specific fields along with line numbers and can print all content of a file along with the line numbers. Also, we can print the range of lines using NR in awk command.

Examples:

1. Displaying specific row with a specific field in a file

[root@localhost ~]# awk 'NR==2 {print $1,$3}' testfile.txt
Thahir 30000

2.Displaying content of a range of lines(from 2 to 4th line)

[root@localhost ~]# awk 'NR==2, NR==4 {print $1,$3}' testfile.txt
Thahir 30000
Tharun 20000
Rishi 15000

 

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