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Nagios is a powerful monitoring system that enables organizations to identify
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and resolve IT infrastructure problems before they affect critical business
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processes.
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Nagios requires a "nagios" user and group; create these before running the
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SlackBuild script. Examples:
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# groupadd -g 213 nagios
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# useradd -u 213 -d /dev/null -s /bin/false -g nagios nagios
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For some scripts to work, it is necessary to include the 'apache' user in
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the nagios group.
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For some functions (most notably the "map" function), you need to have X
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installed on your server. You do not have to start X though, nagios just
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needs some of the libraries and fonts.
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This SlackBuild installs the basic nagios system in /var/www/htdocs/
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To change the location, set the DOCROOT variable:
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# DOCROOT=/your/docroot/dir ./nagios.SlackBuild
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For a useful setup, you will want to have nagios-plugins installed.
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To configure nagios, some knowledge of httpd is required. Check the included
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'README.SLACKWARE' file for some basic setup instructions. The include file
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for httpd is installed as /etc/httpd/extra/nagios.conf
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Lots of information is available in the included documentation, and even more
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can be found on the nagios site and wiki <http://wiki.nagios.org>.
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