How to install and configure nagios nrpe client in Ubuntu with apt-get command A few days back I wrote on how to configure nagios server in Ubuntu 12.04. In this tutorial we will learn how to monitor the ubuntu machines means we will install nrpe in ubuntu machines so that nagios server can monitor it….
Error: Could not stat() command file ‘/var/lib/nagios3/rw/nagios.cmd’! While working on Nagios Server in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS,I was setting external command and stuck with this error message. To solve the problem follow these commands sudo /etc/init.d/nagios3 stop sudo dpkg-statoverride –update –add nagios www-data 2710 /var/lib/nagios3/rw sudo dpkg-statoverride –update –add nagios nagios 751 /var/lib/nagios3 sudo /etc/init.d/nagios3 start…
Sorry, but Nagios is currently not checking for external commands, so your command will not be committed! This message comes on nagios dashboard when externals commands are disable. To enable external commands.Edit the nagios.cfg file and enable the value of check_external_commands parameter. Change the value from 0 to 1 In Debian or Ubuntu: vi /etc/nagios3/nagios.cfg…
How to install nagios server in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS In this tutorial we will learn how to install server in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Nagios is one the robust and very good monitoring server which is highly used in corporate network either it is Small business Unit or big corporate. It also comes with Open source…
Installing Nagios-3.5.0 in CentOS 6.4 This post is updated version of post “https://sharadchhetri.com/2013/02/27/installing-nagios-3-4-4-in-centos-6-3/”. We will use the new EPEL repo rpm i.e epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm.(Today I found that in EPEL repo the nagios 3.5 is available and I tested it in my staging machine) Rest of the steps are same Download the EPEL repo in your system…
How to configure htdigest in nagios server As a security point of view I always prefer to go with htdigest rather than htpasswd method.The reason is htpaswd uses cleartext username and password whereas htdigest uses encryption method. If you have already read my post “How to configure Nagios 3.4.4 in CentOS” there I use the…
In this tutorial we will learn How to install and configure nagios nrpe in CentOS and Red Hat. We will also do some configuration changes in nagios server so that we could monitor the servers. In this scenario we will add a server to monitor. Operating System : CentOS 6.3Nagios Server : hostname: nagios-server ,…
In this article we will solve the problem “”CHECK_NRPE: Error – Could not complete SSL handshake nagios””
Whenever we newly setup the nagios server we mostly get this error “Nagios HTTP WARNING: HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden”. In this article we will solve this problem.
Installing Nagios-3.4.4 in CentOS 6.3 This post is updated version of post “Installing Nagios-3.4 in CentOS 6.3”. The only difference here is , we will use the new EPEL repo rpm i.e epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm. Rest of the steps are same Download the EPEL repo in your system yum install wget (use this command if you do…
Installing Nagios-3.4 in CentOS 6.3 This is how to install nagios 3.4 tutorial for installing nagios-3.4 in CentOS 6.3 in a few steps. rpm -ivh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-7.noarch.rpm yum install nagios nagios-devel nagios-plugins* gd gd-devel httpd php gcc glibc glibc-common Bydefualt on doing yum install nagios, in cgi.cfg file, authorized user name nagiosadmin is mentioned and for…
The article describes encountering a “Forbidden” error while installing Nagios. Despite following the Quick Start guide, login attempts with the nagiosadmin account failed. The issue was resolved by installing the PHP packages, allowing successful access to the Nagios interface.