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Hi Rashmi.....
see this link if helps you?
http://bb4.com/
http://www.quest.com/bigbrother/
http://bb4.com/docs/Big_Brother_DS.pdf
http://big-brother-professional-edition-client.software.informer.com/
--- On Sun, 11/10/09, pawar_rashmee <[email protected]> wrote:
From: pawar_rashmee <[email protected]>
Subject: [LinuxVadaPav] Re: How to setup Nagios Server on Redhat
To: [email protected]
Date: Sunday, 11 October, 2009, 1:48 PM
Hi Dinesh,
This is what i was looking for couple of days. thanks that you posted it. I
have to install nagios and Bigbrother Professional edition on a linux system in
my office. If you have some more docs on bigbrother pls help me with it or even
if you post some links where i can find "how to" for bigbrother and nagios
please do post it.
Thanks
-Rashmi
--- In linuxvadapav@ yahoogroups. com, dinesh jadhav <din_jadhav2003@ ...>
wrote:
>
>
> How to setup Nagios Server on Redhat
> ============ ========= ========= ====
> 1. Don't install nagios using RPM,instead download the source code tarballs
> of both Nagios and the Nagios plugins (visit http://www.nagios. org/download/
> for links to the latest versions).
> wget http://osdn. dl.sourceforge. net/sourceforge/ nagios/nagios- 3.0.3.tar.
> gz
> wget http://osdn. dl.sourceforge. net/sourceforge/ nagiosplug/
> nagios-plugins- 1.4.11.tar. gz
> 2. Create Account Information
> Become the root user.
> su -l
> 3. Create a new nagios user account and give it a password.
> /usr/sbin/useradd -m nagios
> passwd nagios
> 4. Create a new nagcmd group for allowing external commands to be submitted
> through the web interface. Add both the nagios user and the Apache user to
> the group.
> /usr/sbin/groupadd nagcmd
> /usr/sbin/usermod -G nagcmd nagios
> /usr/sbin/usermod -G nagcmd apache
> 5. Extract the Nagios source code tarball.
> cd ~/downloads
> tar xzf nagios-3.0.3. tar.gz
> cd nagios-3.0.3
> Run the Nagios configure script, passing the name of the group you created
> earlier like so:
> ./configure --with-command- group=nagcmd
> 6. Compile the Nagios source code.
> # make all
> Install binaries, init script, sample config files and set permissions on the
> external command directory.
> # make install
> # make install-init
> # make install-config
> # make install-commandmode
> 7. Customize Configuration
> Sample configuration files have now been installed in the /usr/local/nagios/
> etc directory. These sample files should work fine for getting started with
> Nagios. You'll need to make just one change before you proceed...
> Edit the /usr/local/nagios/ etc/objects/ contacts. cfg config file with your
> favorite editor and change the email address associated with the nagiosadmin
> contact definition to the address you'd like to use for receiving alerts.
> vi /usr/local/nagios/ etc/objects/ contacts. cfg
> 8. Configure the Web Interface
> Install the Nagios web config file in the Apache conf.d directory.
> make install-webconf
> r...@lvs2 nagios-3.0.3] # make install-webconf
> /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 sample-config/ httpd.conf /etc/httpd/conf.
> d/nagios. conf
> 8. Create a nagiosadmin account for logging into the Nagios web interface.
> htpasswd -c /usr/local/nagios/ etc/htpasswd. users nagiosadmin
> Restart Apache to make the new settings take effect.
> service httpd restart
> 9. Compile and Install the Nagios Plugins
> Extract the Nagios plugins source code tarball.
> cd ~/downloads
> tar xzf nagios-plugins- 1.4.11.tar. gz
> cd nagios-plugins- 1.4.11
> 10. Compile and install the plugins.
> ./configure --with-nagios- user=nagios --with-nagios- group=nagios
> make
> make install
> Start Nagios
> 11. Add Nagios to the list of system services and have it automatically start
> when the system boots.
> chkconfig --add nagios
> chkconfig nagios on
> Verify the sample Nagios configuration files.
> /usr/local/nagios/ bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/ etc/nagios. cfg
> If there are no errors, start Nagios.
> service nagios start
> 12. Object configuration files
> As mentioned, when the configuration files are split up, Nagios reads the
> data from these files in order for it to process host and service checks
> across the network. Before I begin, detailed documentation of all of the
> options for the template based objects are located at the website.
> # cd /usr/local/nagios/ etc/objects/
> # touch hostgroup.cfg hosts.cfg services.cfg
> # vi localhost.cfg
> Copy the Services Definitions
> # vi services.cfg
> Paste the Services Definitions
> #vi localhost.cfg
> Copy the Host Definitions
> #vi hosts.cfg
> Paste the Host Definitions
> #vi localhost.cfg
> Copy the Host Definitions
> # vi hostgroup.cfg
> Paste the hostgroup Definitions
> Setting up nagios.cfg
> [...@rhel ~] cd /etc/nagios
> [...@rhel nagios] mv localhost.cfg localhost.cfg_ org
> Turn on the allow commands to be executed from the CGI web interface.
> [...@rhel nagios] vi nagios.cfg
> # OBJECT CONFIGURATION FILE(S)
> cfg_file=/etc/ nagios/contacts. cfg
> cfg_file=/etc/ nagios/hostgroup s.cfg
> cfg_file=/etc/ nagios/hosts. cfg
> cfg_file=/etc/ nagios/services. cfg
> cfg_file=/etc/ nagios/timeperio ds.cfg
> # EXTERNAL COMMAND OPTION
> check_external_ commands= 1
> # EXTERNAL COMMAND CHECK INTERVAL
> command_check_ interval= 1
>
>
>
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> 9867011640
>
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> PRAY ABOUT EVERYTHING."
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