Please help to install and give me exactly link

[nagios_az]

Hello all,

I am going to implement Nagious for monitoring applications only, other features not essential (need) for me.


Please provide me exactly link to deploy this feature.

I have downloaded Nagious_XI -> nagios-3.2.3 for Linux (Centos distributor)

But unfortunately I lost step and I remember I made

make install

make install-init

make install-config


but now I want to continue, and I need only deploy nagious for application monitor.

Please give me advice and detail info, exactly path.

Thank you beforehand.

[mguthrie]

I'm a little unclear on your install steps. Nagios XI and Nagios Core and two different pieces of software and have very different install processes.

If you want to use Nagios XI (commercial software with 60 trial):
Here's the downloads page, which has a pre-installed VM, or the source installer for a manual installation. This page also has the links for the installation instructions:
http://library.nagios.com/library/produ ... downloads/

Use you want to use Nagios Core (community project/free)
http://www.nagios.org/download/

For a core install, the make commands are:
make all
make install
make install-init
make install-config
make install-commandmode
make install-webconf

restart your apache server

[nagios_az]

Thank you for your reply.

First of all I want to use nagios for monitoring several applications (which was developed PLSQL, JAVA etc).
What do you recommend, which product should I prefer to use?


And, let me inform you that, I have installed VMware on Windows 7 (my base machine) and on it I have created 2 different Linux Distributor, Centos and Ubuntu.

Note: Ubuntu is latest version 10.10

I have created PHP5, appace etc.

And I have made your mentioned commands and after that

root@me-VirtualBox:~/Downloads/nagios-3.2.3# make install-webconf
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 sample-config/httpd.conf /etc/httpd/conf.d/nagios.conf
/usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file `/etc/httpd/conf.d/nagios.conf': No such file or directory
make: *** [install-webconf] Error 1
root@me-VirtualBox:~/Downloads/nagios-3.2.3#

There is no any directory on /etc/httpd

root@me-VirtualBox:~/Downloads/nagios-3.2.3# ls -lrt /etc/ht*
ls: cannot access /etc/ht*: No such file or directory
root@me-VirtualBox:~/Downloads/nagios-3.2.3#


I have granted permission:

drwxrw-rw- 3 me me 4096 2010-11-22 18:10 sample-config



-rwxrw-rw- 1 me me 1010 2010-11-22 18:10 httpd.conf

What should I use?

[mguthrie]

Nagios XI is not supported under Ubuntu, only RHEL, CentOS, and Fedora installations.

For a Nagios Core install please read the documentation:
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/quickstart.html

If you're using ubuntu the web configuration directory is different, it will be /etc/apache2 instead of /etc/httpd

[nagios_az]

Thank you for your quick reply.

Please give me advice, I want to use application monitor feature of nagios, other features not interesting for me (OS monitor, web server monitor etc)

What should I use? I have meant Nagios Core or Nagios XI ?

[nagios_az]

I have already installed Nagios Core and http://localhost/nagios/ opens successfully.
But I am still waiting my previous post question about which NAGIOS tools should I use for monitoring application?

[mguthrie]

Am I correct in understanding that you want to monitor specific applications? Are they local or remote? It all depends on what specifically you want to monitor, and where (local or remote). Nagios can monitor just about anything, and there are new check plugins written every day. My suggestion would be to search http://exchange.nagios.org for the check that you need. I'm not really sure how to answer your question without more information.

[nagios_az]

Yes, you were correct. I want to monitor a lot of applications which was written JAVA, PLSQL etc and this applications work on several application servers (remote hosts).
I will check your links. Thanks for suggestions.

[mguthrie]

What you might need is a plugin that checks for running processes:
http://exchange.nagios.org/index.php?op ... heck_procs