How to install Nagios in ubuntu 9.x and 10.x

Written by Mel Kham on April 15, 2010. Posted in Linux tutorials

Nagios is a popular open source computer system and network monitoring software application. It watches hosts and services, alerting users when things go wrong and again when they get better.

Nagios was originally designed to run under Linux, but also runs well on other Unix variants. It is free software, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.

Before to start, if you want to install Nagios in fedora ,RHEL or centos please read our previous tutorial

I- Install Apache, PHP and some needed libraries

First we will install apache , php and needed librairies

Install some necessary compilers using the command :

sudo  apt-get install build-essential

Install GD Libraries using the command :

sudo apt-get install libgd2-xpm-dev

Install Apache2

sudo apt-get install apache2

Install PHP for apache 2 :

sudo apt-get install php5-common php5 libapache2-mod-php5

Now configure Apache to use PHP:

Open apache2.conf file

sudo vi   /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

and add this line

DirectoryIndex index.html index.php index.cgi

Now restart your apache

sudo  /etc/init.d/apache2   restart

II- Install and Configure Nagios :

Now lets install and configure Nagios

First download the latest core nagios from nagios website and before installing create a user to run the service and a group to run external commands:

 * sudo useradd -m nagios

 * sudo passwd nagios

 * sudo groupadd nagcmd

 * sudo usermod -a -G nagcmd nagios

 * sudo usermod -a -G nagcmd www-data

Now install the Nagios tarballs that were downloaded previously:

tar -zxvf nagios-3.2.1.tar.gz

Then cd the the extracted folder and install

cd nagios-3.2.1

sudo ./configure --with-command-group=nagcmd

sudo make all

sudo make install

sudo make install-init

sudo make install-config

sudo make install-commandmode

sudo make install-webconf

Add a user for the Nagios interface:

sudo  mkdir  /usr/local/nagios/etc

Create a new password

sudo htpasswd -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users nagiosadmin

Output

New password:
Re-type new password:
pirat9@pirat9-desktop:~/Downloads/nagios-3.2.1$

Now add Nagios directory to apache, first open apache.conf :

sudo vi /etc/apache2/apache.conf

and add these lines :

ScriptAlias /nagios/cgi-bin /usr/local/nagios/sbin

Options ExecCGI

AllowOverride None

Order allow,deny

Allow from all

AuthType Basic

AuthUserFile /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users

Require valid-user

Alias /nagios /usr/local/nagios/share

Options None

AllowOverride None

Order allow,deny

Allow from all

AuthType Basic

AuthUserFile /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users

Require valid-user

save and exit then restart apache2

sudo  /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Install Nagios Plugins :

Now we have to install Nagios plugins, first download the file from nagios website, then extract it using the command :

tar -zxvf  nagios-plugins-1.4.14.tar.gz

Cd the extracted folder and install the plugins

 cd nagios-plugins-1.4.14

 sudo ./configure --with-nagios-user=nagios --with-nagios-group=nagios

sudo make

sudo make install

Create a link to start the service:

sudo ln -s /etc/init.d/nagios /etc/rcS.d/S99nagios

ls -altr

Output

total 20

-rw-r–r– 1 root root 447 2009-09-07 20:58 README

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2010-04-04 22:10 S70x11-common -> ../init.d/x11-common

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2010-04-04 22:10 S70screen-cleanup -> ../init.d/screen-cleanup

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2010-04-04 22:10 S55urandom -> ../init.d/urandom

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 2010-04-04 22:10 S49console-setup -> ../init.d/console-setup

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2010-04-04 22:10 S37apparmor -> ../init.d/apparmor

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2010-04-04 22:10 S25brltty -> ../init.d/brltty

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2010-04-04 22:10 S13pcmciautils -> ../init.d/pcmciautils

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2010-04-04 22:10 S06keyboard-setup -> ../init.d/keyboard-setup

drwxr-xr-x 132 root root 12288 2010-04-15 01:45 ..

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2010-04-15 02:09 S99nagios -> /etc/init.d/nagios

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-04-15 02:09 .

Please before running the configuration check and copy all config files from your nagios directory to /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/ and /usr/local/nagios/etc/

config file ‘/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/commands.cfg’…

object config file ‘/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/contacts.cfg’…

object config file ‘/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/timeperiods.cfg’…

object config file ‘/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/templates.cfg’…

object config file ‘/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/localhost.cfg’…

Verify the config:

sudo /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg

Output :

Nagios Core 3.2.1

Last Modified: 03-09-2010

License: GPL

Website: http://www.nagios.org

Reading configuration data…

Read main config file okay…

Processing object config file ‘/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/commands.cfg’…

Processing object config file ‘/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/contacts.cfg’…

Processing object config file ‘/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/timeperiods.cfg’…

Processing object config file ‘/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/templates.cfg’…

Processing object config file ‘/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/localhost.cfg’…

Read object config files okay…

Running pre-flight check on configuration data…

Checking services…

Checked 8 services.

Checking hosts…

Checked 1 hosts.

Checking host groups…

Checked 1 host groups.

Checking service groups…

Checked 0 service groups.

Checking contacts…

Checked 1 contacts.

Checking contact groups…

Checked 1 contact groups.

Checking service escalations…

Checked 0 service escalations.

Checking service dependencies…

Checked 0 service dependencies.

Checking host escalations…

Checked 0 host escalations.

Checking host dependencies…

Checked 0 host dependencies.

Checking commands…

Checked 24 commands.

Checking time periods…

Checked 5 time periods.

Checking for circular paths between hosts…

Checking for circular host and service dependencies…

Checking global event handlers…

Checking obsessive compulsive processor commands…

Checking misc settings…

Total Warnings: 0

Total Errors: 0

Things look okay – No serious problems were detected during the pre-flight check

pirat9@pirat9-desktop:~/Downloads/nagios-3.2.1$

Now start Nagios:

sudo /etc/init.d/nagios start

Now you are ready to use Nagios, open your browser and type :

   http://hostname/nagios or http://ip/nagios

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Rudiger Wolf

Hi

When I do “ls -altr” as per instructions I do not get dir listing you do. Can you please calrify what dir I should be in at that point in time?

Thaanks
Rudi
pirat9

This just listing of /etc/rcS.d/S99nagios.
its not verry important
Lynn

Hi, I followed this how-to exactly, and I cant get nagios to start. I can get to the web interface, but when I click on anything it gives me an error stating:
Error: Could not read host and service status information!

When I checked the nagios logs I see:
[1272750947] Nagios 3.2.1 starting… (PID=28967)
[1272750947] Local time is Sat May 01 17:55:47 EDT 2010
[1272750947] LOG VERSION: 2.0
[1272750947] Finished daemonizing… (New PID=28970)
[1272750947] Caught SIGSEGV, shutting down…

What can I try now to get nagios starting?
coldsystem

Lynn
what is the output of your
sudo /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
Pirat9

Please post your problem on the forum with screen shots . and we will solve this together.
Thanks
Corzo

Lynn, did you make it work? im having the same problem…
Joe

so how would I go about unistalling? Is there a straightforward way to remove nagios?
pirat9

rm -rf /usr/local/nagios /etc/init.d/nagios
taivna

hi sir. Your advice is best.

but my apache failed.

II- Install and Configure Nagios : last row

Problem: AllowOverride not allowed here

PLS HELP ME!!!
- Fefo
  
  hi. i wrote the same witch is in the document. but it showed the following error:
  
  * Restarting web server apache2 Syntax error on line 240 of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf:
  AllowOverride not allowed here
  
  what can i do?
  thx
  - http://RE:AllowOverridenotallowedhere Ryan
    
    I had the same problem but it looks like you made the changes in apache2.conf and the instructions actually say apache.conf without the 2.
    
    I may have done it wrong but Nagios is running now.
taivna

my nagios fine working but apache have problem.

AllowOverride not allowed her
taivna

Oh sorry it is my fault. I add some changes apache2.conf. it was wrong.

kk sorry Sir.
pirat9

you are welcome :)
tomw

Hi, I’d also like to install nagvis to Ubuntu 9.10…do you have or know of a similar step by step guide for this that follows on from installing nagios(as per above)?
Mad

Thanks for your efforts but I had to stop in the middle of getting complete.

You described:
sudo vi /etc/apache2/apache.conf
but there is’nt such a file, did you mean
sudo vi /etc/apache2/apache2.conf?

If so, (I used it instead) I got errormessages that AllowOverride None ist not allowed than I restart apache service
Also I got a warning message, that the SriptAlias directive will probably never match because it overlaps an earlier SriptAlias.

Any help is appreciated very much an urgendly needed.

Best regards
Mad
Jim

Worked perfectly for me. Thanks for the help!
Anonymous

Hi,

Great job !!! It works very well.

However I got a question about one of your steps that isn’t very clear.

Where you wrote:
“Please before running the configuration check and copy all config files from your nagios directory to /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/ and /usr/local/nagios/etc/”

FROM what directory are you talking about?
Because you haven’t listed that directory and thus I have no idea which directory you are writing about.

Please advise.
Thanks and Cheers!
khaled

how can add user in nagios
khaled

how can add user in nagios
krushna

How to configure nagios in ubuntu 10.04.
pirat9

How to add user is :
sudo htpasswd -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users nagiosadmin

or

sudo htpasswd -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users userX
pirat9

krushna,

check your config,
sudo /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
rm

Below are all the commands – to cut and paste
to a file

note: Nagios dir has both tar files
note: apache2 conf lines at end of this list

Robert

================

sudo apt-get install apache2
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install libgd2-xpm-dev
sudo apt-get install php5-common php5 libapache2-mod-php5
sudo apt-get install vim
sudo vim /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
sudo useradd -m nagios
sudo passwd nagios
sudo groupadd nagcmd
sudo usermod -a -G nagcmd
sudo groupadd nagcmd
sudo usermod -a -G nagcmd nagios
sudo usermod -a -G nagcmd www-data

cd Nagios/
ls
tar -xvf nagios-3.2.1.tar.gz
cd nagios-3.2.1
sudo ./configure -with-command-group=nagcmd
sudo make all
sudo make install
sudo make install-init
sudo make install-config
sudo make install-commandmode
sudo make install-webconf
sudo mkdir /usr/local/nagios/etc
sudo htpasswd -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users nagiosadmin
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

cd Nagios/
tar -xvf nagios-plugins-1.4.14.tar.gz
cd nagios-plugins-1.4.14
sudo ./configure –withnagios-user=nagios –with-group=nagios
sudo ./configure –with-nagios-user=nagios –with-group=nagios
sudo make
sudo make install
sudo -ln -s /etc/init.d/nagios /etc/rcS.d/S99nagios
sudo ln -s /etc/init.d/nagios /etc/rcS.d/S99nagios
sudo /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
sudo /etc/init.d/nagios start
sudo htpasswd -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users nagiosadmin
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

## ADD the following to the end of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

# added for nagios
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php index.cgi

ScriptAlias /nagios/cgi-bin/ “/usr/local/nagios/sbin”

Options ExecCGI
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users
Require valid-user

Alias /nagios/ “/usr/local/nagios/share”

Options None
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users
Require valid-user

## the end of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
rm

Fixed typo “withnagos”
previous post cut off end

Robert

=====

cd Nagios/
tar -xvf nagios-plugins-1.4.14.tar.gz
cd nagios-plugins-1.4.14
sudo ./configure –with-nagios-user=nagios –with-group=nagios
sudo make
sudo make install
sudo -ln -s /etc/init.d/nagios /etc/rcS.d/S99nagios
sudo ln -s /etc/init.d/nagios /etc/rcS.d/S99nagios
sudo /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
sudo /etc/init.d/nagios start
sudo htpasswd -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users nagiosadmin
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

## ADD the following to the end of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

# added for nagios
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php index.cgi

ScriptAlias /nagios/cgi-bin/ “/usr/local/nagios/sbin”

Options ExecCGI
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users
Require valid-user

Alias /nagios/ “/usr/local/nagios/share”

Options None
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users
Require valid-user

## the end of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
rm

not all charaters are cut and paste see correction below:

Robert

=====

the apache2.conf

ScriptAlias /nagios/cgi-bin/ “/usr/local/nagios/sbin”

greater-then Directory less-then

options go here

greater-then slash Directory less-then

Alias /nagios/ “/usr/local/nagios/share”

greater-then Directory less-then

options go here

greater-then slash Directory less-then
Saroj, Ox

Hi there,

I am getting ‘Syntax error on line 243 of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf: AllowOverride not allowed here
error message, could someone please let me know what is causing this issue?

Many thanks,
Saroj
Ox
SysAdmin74

Thanks for the awesome instructions! It worked perfectly!
JM

Call me apache deficient but I can’t seem to get one thing working. I can’t seem to view the system from anywhere outside of the VLAN that the server resides in. I know this has to be a simple solution but I’ve been all over with no luck.
Mart

The information below is already in /etc/apache2/conf.d/nagios.conf causing the error – "Syntax error on line 243 of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf: AllowOverride not allowed here" I left it in the nagios.conf file and everything appears to be working.

———# added for nagios
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php index.cgi

ScriptAlias /nagios/cgi-bin/ "/usr/local/nagios/sbin"

Options ExecCGI
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users
Require valid-user

Alias /nagios/ "/usr/local/nagios/share"

Options None
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users
Require valid-user

## the end of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
——-
http://www.unixmen.com pirat9

JM – Works great from my desktop

try to desactivate selinux and adjust Iptables and will be fine
nnamdi

nice how too. work well for me but i want to know can i monitor a windows network with this app. cos i was looking for something like OSmonitor for windows can it do something like that. i use ubuntu myself
Carlos

Just to say it works like a charm, on 10.04, i tried first 3-4 times on 10.10 but got authentication errors, or folders were not created and so on, thats for beta testing!
Anyway, it works, and now, whats next??
Pirat9

NEXt is to add your windows and other machines to nagios server. if you need to know how ?just consult other tutorial how to add a client to nagios server
Carlos

Im setting up Nagios to monitor our SQL servers, the vpns lan to lan and the server replication. Do you know of any link you could recomend?
Once i finish with that i guess i would have had enough flight hours to be able to get more funtionality but till then i need some help here.
Thank you.
Pirat9

To check mysql with the nagios plugin check_mysql_query,
add the following line in the nrpe.cfg file :
command[check_mysqld]=/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_mysql_query -q ‘select 1+2′ -u nagiosCheck -p ‘password’ -w 3:3 -c 3:3
Carlos

To check the basic vital stats of ms boxes you can follow this link (superb, i tried and works)
http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2008/07/how-to-monitor-remote-windows-machine-using-nagios-on-linux/
Once you do that, it will ping the server (you can asume with that that the vpn is up), and will give you basic info, uptime, cpu-ram loads, etc
Still looking to know how to monitor replication status for SQL servers (we moved from mysql for replication purposes)
Matt

Just wantted to say that the article works great! Thank you for taking the time to post
jiji

plz can you help me i can’t install the Nagios tarballs ,i downloaded the latest core nagios
nagios-3.2.2.tar.gz but when i taped this line:
tar -zxvf nagios-3.2.2.tar.gz this lines appears to me:tar: nagios-3.2.2.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

i tryed so many times but the same msg appear plzzzz help :cry:
pirat9

jiji;
try this in one command (copy and past)
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/nagios/nagios-3.x/nagios-3.2.2/nagios-3.2.2.tar.gz?r=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nagios.org%2Fdownload%2Fcore%2Fthanks%2F&ts=1285143357&use_mirror=netcologne; tar -zxvf nagios-3.2.2.tar.gz
- jiji
  
  plz help i just started my project and i should finished soon i think that the problem is with tar because the file that i downloaded is ok and exist i don’t know ,can i have ur email or msn plz
jiji

pirat9 i did exactely what you told me but look
jeny@ubuntu:~$ wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/nagios/ nagios-3.x/nagios-3.2.2/nagios-3.2.2.tar.gz? r=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nagios.org%2Fdownload%2Fcore% 2Fthanks%2F&ts=1285143357&use_mirror=netcologne; tar -zxvf nagios-3.2.2.tar.gz
–2010-09-22 05:35:24– http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/nagios/
Resolving downloads.sourceforge.net… 216.34.181.59
Connecting to downloads.sourceforge.net|216.34.181.59|:80… [1] 4049
[2] 4050
tar: nagios-3.2.2.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
[2]+ Done ts=1285143357
jeny@ubuntu:~$ connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 404 Not Found
2010-09-22 05:35:25 ERROR 404: Not Found.

–2010-09-22 05:35:25– http://nagios-3.x/nagios-3.2.2/nagios-3.2.2.tar.gz?
Resolving nagios-3.x… failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address `nagios-3.x’
–2010-09-22 05:35:25– http://r=http://www.nagios.org/download/core%25/
Resolving r=http://www.nagios.org/download/core%… failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address `r=http://www.nagios.org/download/core%’
–2010-09-22 05:35:25– http://2fthanks//
Resolving 2fthanks/… failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address `2fthanks/’

…..i don t know what s the problem its work well for the other what s wrong with :(
can i have ur email or msn or skype plz
jiji

[quote=jiji]plz help i just started my project and i should finish it soon i think that the problem is with tar because the file that i downloaded is ok and exist i don’t know ,can i have ur email or msn plz[/quote]
- lim
  
  i got the same problem any one can how?
  
  nagios-3.2.2.tar.gz but when i taped this line:
  tar -zxvf nagios-3.2.2.tar.gz this lines appears to me:tar: nagios-3.2.2.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
  tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
  tar: Child returned status 2
  tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
powershell

please can some one help me?
i’m getting error when doing "sudo mkdir /usr/local/nagios/etc" the error is mkdir: canot create directory ‘/usr/local/nagios/etc’: no such file or directory
pirat9

powershell

try with option -p

sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/nagios/etc
jiji

worked perfectly for me thx a lot pirat9 ur the best,
Jose Luis MArtinez

this tutorial has some flaws, but with little changes worked very good for me.
Thanks a lot
likith

can anyone plz help me too uninstall nagios from cent os

plz mail me at likith_jogi@yahoo.com

regards,
Likith
pirat9

likith
to uninstall nagios remove
/usr/share/nagios/*

and remove the link alias nagios from httpd.conf config

Done.
Philip

I have been following these instructions to the T, but I keep getting a Syntax error after editing apache2.conf saying "AllowOverride not allwed here".
I am not seeing a definitive answer on how to correct this error and I am unable to restart apache because of the error.
Can someone explain how to correct this?

Thanks
- motzilla
  
  pirat9, great writeup, thanks for taking the time to do that. I however am getting the same error as several on the page regarding
  
  "AllowOverride not allwed here".
  
  and
  
  The ScriptAlias directive in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf at line 238 will probably never match because it overlaps an earlier ScriptAlias.
  
  I’ve googled both but am coming up empty handed. Do you have suggestions on getting these errors resolved?
  
  thx in advance.
Motzilla

I was having the error mentioned in my above post but just figured it out.

I had to include the to the alias syntax, see below for anyone else having the issue.

ScriptAlias /nagios/cgi-bin "/usr/local/nagios/sbin"

Options ExecCGI
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users
Require valid-user

Alias /nagios "/usr/local/nagios/share"

Options None
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users
Require valid-user
- Motzilla
  
  ok nevermind, i see what’s happening now. It seems the comments plugin here is parsing out the key syntax from peoples posts…
  
  i took a screenshot and have posted it here:
  http://i553.photobucket.com/albums/jj375/motzilla/random/ScreenShot043.png
  - http://enteryoursiteURL... Smakodak
    
    Hi Motzilla
    The picture is gone. Is there any possibillity that you can post it again.
    
    Thanks Anders
    - mency
      
      It is necessary to bound the commands with "directory" tags to resolve the "AllowOverride not allowed here" errors
      
      I have just found out the snippet required at
      http://pastebin.com/eHSWLarZ
mat

Tnx for the writeup. But as many before me, i 2 have a following problem with apache:

"AllowOverride not allwed here".

and

The ScriptAlias directive in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf at line 238 will probably never match because it overlaps an earlier ScriptAlias.

Thank u in advance!
lim

nagios-3.2.2.tar.gz but when i taped this line:
tar -zxvf nagios-3.2.2.tar.gz this lines appears to me:tar: nagios-3.2.2.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
http://www.aloser.rs tepisi

Great post! Does anyone know how to change home page on ubuntu 10.04?
Manoj

Hi,
Awesome steps to configure Nagios..
I have installed it on Ubuntu 10.04

& works Perfectly…

Thanks for posting this article…

Regards
Manoj
http://enteryoursiteURL... Amit

THank you so much for this help.
http://www.italic-solution.com/ Yulianto Sidabutar

These Informations is very usefull and work.. :-)

Thx for the contributer..
Devu

Hi thank you 4 ur usefull info which i couldnt get any where,
But my system showling

"[b]Not Found
The requested URL /nagios was not found on this server.
Apache/2.2.16 (Ubuntu) Server at 1.23.199.62 Port 80"[/b]

please do help to this
Anonymous

Can’t nobody take the liberty to create one global installer for all linux software that can be accepted for all linux based OS. Untill then, how great linux might be as OS, it will be always a minor player in the world.
- pirat9
  
  i’m working on one article. how to install nagios in 1 command ?. please stay checking our website about this how to .
LostZ

i Have followed steps and everything is right but when i try to access through web it wont take user and password what could i have done wrong
Clistion

ERROR

step sudo vi /etc/apache2/apache.conf

in really:

the conf file nagios in

/etc/apache2/conf.d/nagios.conf
- ana howa ana
  
  Can be. because with the new nagios config. the conf file will be sent to apache2 conf directory
http://enteryoursiteURL... Fafaquelfes

can any body show me the /etc/apache2/apache2.conf file with the correct pasted change as I don’t really understand when I should place the greater than and the Less than ( >
http://enteryoursiteURL... Sintex

Hi,
Myself and a few others seem to be having a few issues when trying to install this,

After I have updated the Apache2.conf file and restart the service I get -
[warn] The scriptAlias directive in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf at line 241 will probably never match because it overlaps an earlier scriptAlias.
syntax error on line 224 of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf: AllowOverride not allowed here.

Any ideas as this is a real blocker might have to rebuild and start again.
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hunhun

hey i cant edit my apache.conf it is only a read only file and i badly cant add any text on the line..

can you teach me how to write on that file..
http://servertechz.com/?s=nagios maki

hii

good article..i completed installing nagios with out any issues with the help of this post..good work..:)
Sinto

Hi All,
There is a small change in this document while installing nagios-3.3.1 installation.
After untar the nagios core file you need to execute the below command line. then only it will compile properly.

./configure

sed -i ‘s:for file in includes/rss/*;:for file in includes/rss/*.*;:g’ ./html/Makefile
sed -i ‘s:for file in includes/rss/extlib/*;:for file in includes/rss/extlib/*.*;:g’ ./html/Makefile

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1814086
Itsupport

it is giving error {AllowOverride not allowed here
Action ‘configtest’ failed.
The Apache error log may have more information.
…fail!)
- Tony
  
  I was having the same issue, I found that the actual file to edit is referenced here:
  
  http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/nagioscore/3/en/cgisecurity.html
  - Austin
    
    Am I messing something up? I don’t have an httpd directory. I also tried changing the nagios.conf in conf.d. Any thoughts?
Anonymous

im new for nagios i installed using above document when i hit the url in browser like “localhost/nagios” it comes service temporary unavailable please let me know the solutions
Sudhirayrota

awesome
Sudhirayrota

when installing nsclient++ on windows machine make sure to check all the plugins this will overcome the error of plugins missing and connection refused…hope this helps someone..
Ankur Trapasiya

Excellent guide to install nagios.. Thanks a lot… :-)
Morininglightz

I edit file “apache.conf”
and add those lines stated in this website..
from line “ScriptAlias /nagios/cgi-bin /usr/local/nagios/sbin” to line “Require valid-user”

When I try to restart my apache, it show these errors:
……/etc/apache2/apache2.conf at line 238 will probably never match because it overlaps an earlier ScriptAlias.
Syntax error on line 242 of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf:
AllowOverride not allowed here

May I know what had gone wrong? I find the content f apache.conf, there is no “Scriptalias” in the file initially. What can I do to add those lines into the file?
monaliza

hi, how delete nagios on ubuntu 10.10, plz heip me, hanks
Fmp

How to resolve this?

[warn] The ScriptAlias directive in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf at line 232 will probably never match because it overlaps an earlier ScriptAlias.
Syntax error on line 234 of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf:
AllowOverride not allowed here
Action ‘configtest’ failed.
The Apache error log may have more information.
…fail!
- Pirat9
  
  Please note , that this method is working only for old ubuntu . if you are running thge new ubuntu release. the apache config will not work
  - Fmp
    
    i was able to fix it with series of google searching, but to track back the procedures i’ve done. Personally, i was not able to follow it :-(
    It’s like just hitting your head against the wall.
Guest

Hello
simple and clear, good article
Tks
allyourbase

Then, please remove the “10.x” in the title of the post, as the same error message will occur on a Ubuntu 10.04 server system!
Anonymous

Attention: The file apache.conf in ubuntu 10.04 to forward is /etc/apache2/conf.d/ path and we need modify the following file: nagios.conf. That file contains the information refered to nagios and all the necessary options to make it works, even we don’t need to add lines neither

Ladi Oyekanmi

June 19, 2013 | #

Could you please assist in step by step on how to install nagios on solaris

Adhraa

Greate tutorial :)

pigmej

June 18, 2013 | #

Just one thing:

What about pep8 in your python code ? How can you give ‘tutorials’ on quite popular website, of such a bad quality ?

Amit Rai

I just renamed shared.xml and it logged in and created a new shared.xml.

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