Add Linux host to nagios server

WRITTEN BY PIRAT9 ON J UNE 22, 2009. POSTED IN LINUX TUTORIALS

Nagios is the industry standard in enterprise-class monitoring for good reason. It allows you to gain insight into your network and fix problems before customers know they even exist. Its stable, scalable, supported, and extensible. We did show you before how to install Nagios in this Tutorial So today will be how to add Linux client to the Nagios server . To start , In the remote host add nagios user : /usr/sbin/useradd nagios passwd nagios

We need two packages . Nagios-plugin and Nrpe (download the latst version from the nagios web site) Compile and install the plugins. (1.4.13) ./configure make make install The permissions on the plugin directory and the plugins will need to be fixed at this point, so run the following commands. chown nagios.nagios /usr/local/nagios chown -R nagios.nagios /usr/local/nagios/libexec Install XINETD . Fedora/centos/RHEL

yum Install xinetd In other Linux distro please use : apt-get (UBUNTU/DEBIAN) or zypper (OPENSUSE) or your slackware download manager . Install the NRPE daemon Download the source code tarball of the NRPE addon (visit http://www.nagios.org/download/ for links to the latest versions). At the time of writing, the latest version of NRPE was 2.12. cd ~/downloads wget http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/nagios/nrpe-2.12.tar.gz Extract the NRPE source code tarball. tar xzf nrpe-2.12.tar.gz cd nrpe-2.12 Compile the NRPE addon. ./configure makeall Install the NRPE plugin (for testing), daemon, and sample daemon config file. make install-plugin make install-daemon make install-daemon-config Install the NRPE daemon as a service under xinetd. make install-xinetd Edit the /etc/xinetd.d/nrpe file and add the IP address of the monitoring server to the only_from directive.

only_from = 127.0.0.1 Add the following entry for the NRPE daemon to the /etc/services file. nrpe 5666/tcp # NRPE Restart the xinetd service. service xinetd restart Test the NRPE daemon locally Its time to see if things are working properly Make sure the nrpe daemon is running under xinetd. netstat -at | grep nrpe The output out this command should show something like this: tcp 0 0 *:nrpe *:* LISTEN if you are using the IPtables please add this line : iptables -I RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p tcp -m tcp dport 5666 -j ACCEPT Save the new iptables rule so it will survive machine reboots. service iptables save NRPE commands You can test some of these by running the following commands: /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H localhost -c check_users /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H localhost -c check_load /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H localhost -c check_hda1 /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H localhost -c check_total_procs /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H localhost -c check_zombie_procs

Now back to your Nagios Server , and Install NRPE deamon : Download nrpe and extract. /configure make all Install the NRPE plugin make install-plugin check of nrpe is working we will check the nrpe in the remote host 10.1.1.56 : [root@Nagios-Server nrpe-2.12]# /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H 10.1.1.56 NRPE v2.12 Now in the nagios server : Go to Cd /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects Cp linux-server.cfg linux-remotemachine.cfg Open linux-remotemachine.cfg and edit the hostname and IP adress Save exit Cd /usr/local/nagios/etc Vi nagios.cfg Add this line : # Definitions for monitoring the local (Linux) host #cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/localhost.cfg cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/Nagios-server.cfg cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/remote-machine.cfg

save and exit fine : now check if you nagios server nagios can start without errors /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg Nagios 3.1.0 Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Ethan Galstad (http://www.nagios.org) Last Modified: 01-25-2009 License: GPL 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/Nagios-server.cfg Processing object config file /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/Tornado01.cfg Processing object config file /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/Tornado02.cfg Read object config files okay Running pre-flight check on configuration data Checking services Checked 25 services. Checking hosts Checked 3 hosts. Checking host groups

Checked 3 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 Now restart nagios with [root@Nagios-Server etc]# service nagios restart Running configuration checkdone. Stopping nagios: done. Starting nagios: done. Open your nagios page and see is done !

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