Nagios is a service and resource monitoring system, built to help prevent and fix problems in enterprise infrastructure.
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How do I install nagios?
I keep hearing about Nagios, a really powerful tool for monitoring servers. How do I install it?
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Which mailx package should I install for Nagios?
I'm following the Nagios Ubuntu quickstart instructions. I'm on Ubuntu 10.10 and installing Nagios 3.2.3.
At the bottom of the docs it says I need to install the mailx and postfix packages. ...
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I need a good network monitoring tool
I need to get some good network monitoring tools. I am trying to find out why my office network is so congested/slow, and I need something that will allow me to look at all the machines in the ...
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Can nagios3 automatically generate a network map?
Have just installed nagios3 onto Ubuntu Server 10.04. A clean install. All plugins installed.
The nagios status map only has localhost and gateway discovered. Is there a way for it to scan our ...
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nagios- nrpe installation error(configure: error: Cannot find ssl libraries)
i have installed nagios and i want to install nrpe. While installing NRPE, when i execute (/home/abc/nrpe/configure)
./configure
it stops after reaching the following line
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checking for type ...
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How do I configure nagios with audio notifications?
I need help to configure Nagios to send an Audio notifications for every errors that nagios detects on the network.
I've found on internet to realize that I need to install Festival but I don't know ...
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Why can't the nagios user send mails using “sendmail”?
I have installed nagios for monitoring and sendmail for sending mails. When testing from root account I am receiving mails, but I'm not receiving mails when I send it from nagios account. I have ...
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How can I have nagios alerts emailed to my gmail?
I'd like to set up some sort of mail server to send emails from from my gmail account to another email. How can I do this?
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Why is check_linux_raid missing from nagios plugins in 13.04?
After upgrading to 13.04 my Nagios monitoring started to notify me of a problem with my raid setup (mdadm raid). After some investigation it seems the check_linux_raid plugin is not included anymore ...
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Where are Nagios 3 Config Files in Ubuntu 12.04?
I just installed Nagios3 via Synaptic. The package and it's dependencies all installed fine and I log in using a web browser, however I'd like to add hosts now and according to the official Nagios ...
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Start nagios web interface on a different port
I am trying to install nagios but I would like to start the web interface on a port other than 80. I cant seem to find much info on how to do that. Any help is appreciated. Thanks
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Where Are My Config Files In Nagios?
I installed Nagios by following the steps here.
I wonder where will be config file are. I can see plenty of places files resides. For example I can see nagios.cfg in two places :
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Nagios Notification via Ubuntu notify-osd
I have been looking around for a nagios plugin that offers the ability to have alerts for my hosts and services that i monitor to come through to my ubuntu pc in the form of an onscreen notification.
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nagios3 Error: Could not read object configuration data!
I have a brand new install of nagios3 on ubuntu 12.04. After I log in to the web interface and click any link I get the error:
Error: Could not read object configuration data!
Here are some things ...
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What's the best way to install the GD graphics library for Nagios?
While trying to install Nagios 3.2.3, I ran their ./configure script and got these errors:
checking for main in -liconv... no
checking for gdImagePng in -lgd (order 1)... no
checking for gdImagePng ...
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Problem with nagios email notification
Recently I am not getting any email notification in nagios. I have tested it by sending emails manually from root user and nagios user and I have got the email successfully. But I am not any email ...
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How can I use aptitude to install Nagios?
I've seen several guides online which describe downloading and building Nagios on Ubuntu servers. Is there also an aptitude package I could use to install Nagios 3?
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How Do I install Nagios Plugin?
I have installed Nagios in my ec2 server. Now I want to install check_snmp plugin. I found that this is not available in :
/usr/local/nagios/libexec
I tried :
sudo apt-get install ...
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How I can install RRD module in perl?
I'm very new to Ubuntu. I'm using Nagios Graph plugin. That plugin needs perl RRD module to be installed on my system.
How I can install that?
Thanks in advance.
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nagios on virtualhost cgi problems
I have been moving my nagios on apaches virtualhost and adding the following configuration file
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
ServerName nagios.example.com
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running /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_apt as nagios user does not return the correct result
I have two servers, both running 12.04 server, and nagios-nrpe-server.
On both, I have configured the command check_apt, which runs /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_apt.
On both, nagios-nrpe-server is ...
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Aptitude installs automatically certain packages
I removed Nagios with sudo apt-get remove --purge nagios3-core nagios3-common and sudo apt-get autoremove but when I use Aptitude to install something else, It automatically installs Nagios again.
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Ubuntu 12.04 failed mysql installation
I have deployed Ubuntu 12.04 on the Amazon Cloud and I am trying to install Nagios and Nconf, while following this guide. When I install the prerequisites, I get this error on installing mysql:
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Step by Step Installation of Nagios [duplicate]
I'm a novice linux user and I'm looking for a step by step guide on how to install Nagios to monitor our network usage (bandwidth and all). I've tried installing it a couple of times, but it seems ...
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PNP4Nagios error with Apache
I had a working setup with PNP4Nagios and Nagios. Everything was great.
Friday, I installed NagiosQL.
Since then, PNP4Nagios's web UI doesn't work anymore!
I get this error when trying to access ...
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install nagios3 package on 11.04 [closed]
I recently installed nagios3 using synaptic on 11.04 and am having a hard time locating updated docs. Last time I installed nagios I did it manually, but the updated quickstart doc doesn't account for ...
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Nagios3 crashes with SIGSEGV
I installed nagios3 on ubuntu server 10.04.1. It was working fine.
Today, I found it stopped and when I tried to start it using sudo /etc/init.d/nagios3 start, it did not start. I found this in the ...
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Nagios suddenly stops working
I have configure passive checks on one my host system
for this i am using nsca.
it was running fine.
suddenly host is showing down on the monitoring. but host was fine and running
when i check ...
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Nagstamon doesn't show in Ubuntu 12.04?
I'm trying to do the nagstamon work on Ubuntu 12.04, but after setting my credentials only, the other setting I kept default, it doesn't show anywhere.
I'm sure it's running 'cause of ps aux | grep ...
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How to stop nagios from adding -a at the end of nrpe_check commands
I have a problem running nrpe commands from nagios, I get an error like "no response returned".
In nrpe.conf on the server I'm trying to monitor i have
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Update of nagios3 in repository
When I installed nagios3 through apt-get on my ubuntu precise64 I found out there is out-of-date version 3.2.3.
The newest version is 3.5 right now.
I also checked that for newer versions of ubuntu ...
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NDOUtils installation unable to load data into Mysql database
I have installed nagios server and its Working fine. later i thought of integrating the same with mysql Database via NDOUtils, But when i start the nod2db I m getting an error message in nagios ...
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check_megaraid_sas: Use of uninitialized value in numeric lt () at (eval 1) line 124
Suddenly on of my server showing this error on monitoring.
;Raid Status;-1;**ePN /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_megaraid_sas: Use of ininitialized value in numeric lt () at (eval 1) line 124,.
and ...
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Nagios configuration on ubuntu [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I get permissions to edit system configuration files?
I can't edit the file /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/commands.cfg using "vi" editor
this file is "readonly ...
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nagios check_ping: Invalid hostname/address
I'm trying to setup nagios for a host what has the following webroot: www.example.com/ui/html/, but nagios won't accept as host this kind of host path check_ping: Invalid hostname/address.
Is there a ...
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Debian Squeeze: Why does Nagios stop sending alerts to the server? [closed]
i have client machine and a server configured nagios on clinet to send alert on server to monitor everything is working fine but suddenly client stops sending alerts to the server on server side ...
