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How to Setup and configure Nagios

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<pre>Note: For the next step make sure you are connected to the Internet to download nagios plugins.</pre>

34. Download the source code tarball of the NRPE addon (visit http://www.nagios.org/download/ for links to the latest versions).

<code>wget http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/nagios/nrpe-2.8.tar.gz</code>

45. Extract the NRPE source code tarball.

56. Compile the NRPE add-on.

<code>./configure </code>

67. Install the NRPE plug-in.

<code>make install-plugin</code>

23. Instal Plugins:

<code>./configure --with-nagios-user=nagios --with-nagios-group=nagios</code>

<code>make install</code>

34. The permissions on the plugin directory and the plugins will need to be changed to nagios user.

<code>chown nagios.nagios /usr/local/nagios</code>

<code>chown -R nagios.nagios /usr/local/nagios/libexec</code>

45. Package xinted is needed.

<code>yum install xinetd</code>

56. Start xinetd service.

<code>service xinetd start</code>

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