Nagios 4 : Install2021/06/03

	Install Nagios 4 which is an enterprise open source monitoring system.
[1]	Install and start Apache httpd, refer to here.
[2]	Install PHP 7.4, refer to here.
[3]	Install Nagios Server. Also Install basic plugins to monitor Nagios Server itself.

# install from EPEL

[root@dlp ~]#

dnf --enablerepo=epel -y install nagios nagios-plugins-{ping,disk,users,procs,load,swap,ssh,http}

[4]	Configure Nagios.

[root@dlp ~]#

vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/nagios.conf

# line 16-17 : change access permission if you need ( also change line 47-48 )

Require all granted
Require host 127.0.0.1

10.0.0.0/24

# add nagios admin user

[root@dlp ~]#

htpasswd /etc/nagios/passwd nagiosadmin

New password:

# set any password

Re-type new password:
Adding password for user nagiosadmin

[root@dlp ~]#

systemctl enable --now nagios

[root@dlp ~]#

systemctl restart httpd

[5]	If SELinux is enabled, change policy.

# install from EPEL

[root@dlp ~]#

dnf --enablerepo=epel -y install nagios-selinux

[root@dlp ~]#

vi nagios-php.te

# create new

module nagios-php 1.0;

require {
        type httpd_t;
        type nagios_spool_t;
        class file { getattr open read };
}

#============= httpd_t ==============
allow httpd_t nagios_spool_t:file { getattr open read };

[root@dlp ~]#

checkmodule -m -M -o nagios-php.mod nagios-php.te

checkmodule: loading policy configuration from nagios-php.te
checkmodule: policy configuration loaded
checkmodule: writing binary representation (version 19) to nagios-php.mod
[root@dlp ~]#

semodule_package --outfile nagios-php.pp --module nagios-php.mod

[root@dlp ~]#

semodule -i nagios-php.pp

[6]	If Firewalld is running, allow HTTP service.

[root@dlp ~]#

firewall-cmd --add-service={http,https} --permanent

success
[root@dlp ~]#

firewall-cmd --reload

success

[7]	Access to [http://(Nagios server's hostname or IP address)/nagios/] from a client which is in the network allowed by Nagios server and authenticate to login with the Nagios administration user [nagiosadmin] you added.

[8]	After successing authentication, Nagios admin site is displayed.

[9]	It's possible to see system status to click [Tactical Overview] and so on.

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