Unattended install of Nagios-DevOps

[dfmco]

I am looking for a way to build a Nagios XI Server from scripts so that I can spin up a new instance with all installed components, configuration, users, custom time periods, etc. in one shot. I would like to do this to decrease the likelihood of errors and to streamline the process.

[mcapra]

Do you have current configuration automation tools you're using? (Chef, Ansible, Salt, etc) +1 for official playbooks/cookbooks/states because that'd be just so dang neat to have

Initial setup shouldn't be much more complicated than spinning up a clean minimal CentOS/RHEL machine then running the fullinstall script included with Nagios XI.

Typically you can get the full set of all this stuff:

installed components, configuration, users, custom time periods, etc

By making a Nagios XI backup:
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ios-XI.pdf

So you'd essentially make a "clean" backup with all the bare minimum configuration elements. Then have your automation tools be responsible for pulling down that artifact and running restore_xi.sh against it.

[tmcdonald]

Thanks for the assist, @mcapra!

I actually wrote a *very* basic Ansible script for installing the latest Nagios XI:

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---
- hosts: centos
  remote_user: root
  tasks:

  - name: Download latest XI source
    get_url:
      url: http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagiosxi/xi-latest.tar.gz
      dest: "/tmp/xi-latest.tar.gz"
      force: yes
      validate_certs: no

  - name: Untar source tarball
    unarchive:
      src: "/tmp/xi-latest.tar.gz"
      dest: "/tmp/"
      copy: no

  - name: Run install
    shell: "./fullinstall -n"
    args:
      chdir: "/tmp/nagiosxi"

It's not something we can necessarily support/guarantee, but I have been using it in my testing workflow for weeks and it has been solid. Feel free to use it for the XI install portion - the rest is up to you, but Ansible has been my go-to for quite a while and I have had no complaints.

[dfmco]

Thanks! I will be sure to post modifications of the scripts back here to help others.

[scottwilkerson]

Thanks @dfmco!