Nagios Support Forum

I finally got the AMI to work in AWS---for some reason not all the image files were allowing me to access the nagios gui from the public dns (guessing they were not installing properly?)

Now I am trying to setup auto-discovery, I am looking at the directions to ssh in and change the root password so I can run a script. So I log in as ec2-user, the login to root with nagiosxi as the password but i get denied. All the documentation suggest this is the default root password?

i am stuck on how to login as root so I can progress with all the features of nagios. Any guidance?

Did you allow port 80 & 22 on the AWS firewall

Actually, in EC2 it is not allowed to offer root access

You should login as ec2-user with the ssh key and then you can run the following to switch to root

Thank you for the replies. Yes Port 22 and 80 were opened. The sudo su worked for the autodiscovery, but I am unable to auto-discover my S3 buckets---doesnt pick them up. Does anyone know how to connect to them for monitoring?

There are no wizards for checking S3 buckets, though you will find a few plugins on the exchange:
Check S3 bucket usage: http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Pl ... ge/details
There are quite a number of aws/ec2 plugins available on the exchange as well:

AWS: http://exchange.nagios.org/index.php?op ... chword=aws
EC2: http://exchange.nagios.org/index.php?op ... chword=ec2

Take some time to peruse the exchange, the community has been very active concerning Amazon's services.