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The Nagios installation consists of creating the user "nagios" with a password, compiling the sources, copying of files and final adjustmensts.

Contents 1 creating the user nagios 2 creating a group to be able to use external commands 2.1 creating a group on Fedora 2.2 creating a group on Debian 2.3 creating a group on OpenSuse 3 download and compile

creating the user nagios

# /usr/sbin/useradd -m nagios
# passwd nagios

creating a group to be able to use external commands

# /usr/sbin/groupadd nagcmd
# /usr/sbin/usermod -G nagios,nagcmd nagios

creating a group on Fedora

$> /usr/sbin/usermod -G nagios,nagcmd apache

creating a group on Debian

$> /usr/sbin/usermod -G nagios,nagcmd www-data

creating a group on OpenSuse

$> /usr/sbin/usermod -G nagios,nagcmd www

download and compile

Although nagios is updated frequently the installation doesn't change. You will find the latest version on the official Nagios website http://www.nagios.org/download/

# cd /usr/local/src/
# wget http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/nagios/nagios-3.0.3.tar.gz

Unpack the archive and change the directory:

# tar -xzf nagios-3.0.3.tar.gz
# cd nagios-3.0.3

configuration and installation:

# ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/nagios --with-command-group=nagcmd --enable-nanosleep --enable-event-broker
# make all
# make install
# make install-init
# make install-commandmode
# make install-config

Nagios is installed so we can continue with the installation of the plugins.