Add a server in Nagios for monitoring

  ########################## How to add a server in Nagios? ####################################### 1. Make a directory in /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/ with client’s name. We should group all the host.cfg file of the client in this directory. 2.Make the host.cfg file as host_name.cfg where host_name is the hostname of the server 3. Add the following sections to the host_name.cfg Note: […]

Install the NRPE service on a Windows host

The below are the steps which will explain us how to install nagios NRPE client on windows.. * Download the latest version of NRPE_NT currently nrpe_nt.0.8b-bin.zip from http://sourceforge.net/projects/nrpent/files/nrpent/0.8b/nrpe_nt.0.8b-bin.zip/download * Now, you should extract the files to a directory and open a command prompt and change directory to the nrpe_nt’bin directory and to install the service type […]

Install Nagios in the LINUX server

The following article will help you to install nagios in the LINUX server. ========= Installing Nagios on Linux Presumptions: 1. Apache is already installed in /usr/local/apache2 2. Default server is test.example Installing Nagios: ================= 1. Download tar ball from http://www.nagios.org extract it 2. Go to the extracted directory and give following commands: # ./configure –prefix=/usr/local/nagios […]