Nagios Mobile Install Core/XI

[mikew]

After installing these on several different types of systems I documented it in case someone else could benefit.

Installation
The installation is assuming that you are installing on CentOS, have compiled your Nagios install and are using PHP 5.1 or greater. This install will include instructions on how to use apc to cache your status data for faster page loads.

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   cd /tmp
   wget http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/exchange/nagiosmobile/nagiosmobile.tar.gz
   tar zxvf nagiosmobile.tar.gz

   cd /nagiosmobile   
   ./INSTALL.php

If you see errors on the location of files you will need to modify the path in /usr/local/nagiosmobile/include.inc.php.
Install several requirements.

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   yum install php-pear php-devel httpd-devel pcre-devel

Edit /etc/php.ini

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extension=apc.so
apc.enabled= 1

Install APC

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   pear install pecl/apc
downloading APC-3.1.9.tgz ...
Starting to download APC-3.1.9.tgz (155,540 bytes)
.................................done: 155,540 bytes
54 source files, building
running: phpize
Configuring for:
PHP Api Version:         20041225
Zend Module Api No:      20050922
Zend Extension Api No:   220051025
Enable internal debugging in APC [no] :


You will be asked a number of questions, just take the defaults.


Modify /etc/httpd/conf.d/nagiosmobile.conf to either use Nagios Core or Nagios XI, comment out the lines you will not use. The example is set up for Nagios XI.

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#modify this file to fit your apache configuration
Alias /nagiosmobile "/usr/local/nagiosmobile"
<Directory "/usr/local/nagiosmobile">
#  SSLRequireSSL
   Options None
   AllowOverride None
   Order allow,deny
   Allow from all
#  Allow from 127.0.0.1
######use the below lines for Nagios XI
AuthName "Nagios Monitor XI"
  AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /usr/local/nagiosxi/etc/htpasswd.users
######Use the below lines for a SOURCE install of Nagios Core
#   AuthName "Nagios Access"
#   AuthType Basic
#   AuthUserFile /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users
   Require valid-user
</Directory>


Edit /usr/local/nagiosmobile/include.inc.php if the installation of nagiosmobile showed any errors. For example, this system is using a RAM disk so the status.dat location had to be modified.

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#status_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/status.dat
status_file=/ramdisk/status.dat


Restart your web server.

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service httpd restart

Usage
NagiosMobile can now be accessed at http://nagios_ip/nagiosmobile.

That should make it easier for those of you using CentOS.

[pouda]

work very well on my nagios XI

Thnaks you very much for this nice guide ..

[pouda]

do you know if Nagios xi is using APC too ? if not how to enable it ? or if it's a bad idea to do it ... let me know

[mguthrie]

Nagios XI is using a DB backend, which is actually still preferable than using APC. The reason for APC with Nagios Mobile is that it's fetching it's data from the status.dat file and the objects.cache file so that it works with any Nagios install, and parsing status info from large files is much slower than pulling from a database.

I tried some experiments with XI and APC a while back, but because of the more advanced filtering that is done in XI it had unpredictable results.

[pouda]

Ok no problem ... it's clear for me ...

[pouda]

Hi i've a little problem wit one of nagios server ..

i would install apc service for faster webpage...

it's a remote installation and i need to set http_proxy variable ... i found the way to solve this issue but!!
The proxy need an authentication and!!! i wrote ..

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pear config-set http_proxy http://rworobel@dmvstafr.fr.fto:password@proxy.dmv-stainless.com:8080
pear list-all

i retreived this message

The problem is coming that in username i've an @-sign ...but i didn't find how to escape this character by something else...

Someone could help me ?

Thanks bye.

[mguthrie]

For posts like this, I would suggest starting a new thread. However, it looks like you might need to use a hex value for that character so that it's url encoded.
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp