I just installed fully automated nagios on a spare computer. Feb 24, 2012 i just installed fully automated nagios on a spare computer. Nagios xi is the most powerful and trusted network monitoring software on the market. Fan, fully automated nagios est une nouvelle distribution gnulinux. Automated host management in nagios xi nagios labs. Download the source code for the latest stable release of nagios core. For many nagios users, implementing additional configuration tools can ease the task of deploying and managing a nagios configuration. Many admins and engineers who are not familiar with linuxunix commands and architecture prefer to work within windows serverdesktop instead, with a more fully automated approach. It can also create nagios configuration files from the data in the cmdb. Solved how to setup monitoring with fan nagios forum. You can build as many live maps as you need to from visio drawings or any other custom image using nagvis. Apr 30, 20 in this nagios configuration how to guide we will explain most of the files that are needed for nagios to monitor your hosts and services and send alerts.
Apr 11, 2009 fan, fully automated nagios a ete presente sur le salon solution linux 2009 dans une conference officielle. Host groups can make it easier to 1 view the status of related hosts in the nagios web interface and 2 simplify your configuration through the use of object tricks. Fan is available in iso image format and its easy to burn on a cd or dvd. May 01, 2020 prtg network monitor is an allinclusive monitoring software solution developed by paessler. This is a small script which will generate a nagios configuration files, as per the designed template. Customizable dashboards allow for peruser customization. Install fully automated nagios and configure your hosts and services using. It allows you to gain insight into your network and fix problems before customers know they even exist.
I am working with a fan fully automated nagios setup running centreon 2. This document describes how to automate adding and removing hosts and services in nagios xi from the command line. Nagios setup in the cloud and monitor aws ec2 resources on nagios duration. If you have not already downloaded and installed fully automated nagios, then click on the installation guide link fully automated nagios accessing centreon from your web browser assuming you have installed fully automated nagios, and your installation server is up and running, then all that is needed is to type the hostname or the ip address. Copy the link address for the latest stable release so you can download it to your nagios server. Monitoring wizards make it easy to monitor new devices, applications, and services. Fan is linuxbased operating system provided nagios. Fan makes the configuration of nagios very simple by using the centreon. See additional projects that extend nagios core functionality. Nov 28, 2009 fan fully automated nagios fan, fully automated nagios, rencontres mondiales du logiciel libre 2008 fan, fully automated nagios, paris capitale du libre 2008. Configuring nagios can take quite a while, especially if youre firsttime user. See a variety of open source frontends by the community. In this nagios configuration how to guide we will explain most of the files that are needed for nagios to monitor your hosts and services and send alerts.
Fai is a tool for unattended mass deployment of linux. Voici le support qui a servi pour cette presentation. Generate nagios configuration files nagios exchange. Sep 10, 2019 external object configuration files are object definitions which are processed by nagios xi but are not maintained or managed using the nagios xi web gui or configuration database. Nagios core reads its configuration data from text files. Adding new hosts windows fan centreon centreon forum. Jun 24, 2016 automated deployment of nagios client on centos678, rhel678, fedora or freebsd generates hosts and service checks based on ansible inventory generates configuration services based on easytomanage jinja2 templates.
Download the core monitoring engine and a basic web interface. Nagios xi is the easytouse, enterprise version of nagios that features. Thanks a lot, in centreon configurationhostsadd how to add several check command options. Automated deployment of nagios client on centos678, rhel678, fedora or freebsd generates hosts and service checks based on ansible inventory generates configurationservices based on easytomanage jinja2 templates. Fan fully automated nagios monitoring tool unix addiction. Go to admin monitoring config nrds config manager, click on create config, select windows 32 or 64bit from the operating system dropdown menu, and click on the next button.
It is designed as a standalone installation based on centos 5. Nagios core has a rich variety of addons, which provide additional features that are outofscope for nagios core itself. Documentation nagios core configuration overview final thoughts. External configuration files can be either created from scratch and manually maintained or generated from an external source such as an svn server. How to install nagios 4 and monitor your servers on centos 7. It can read nagios configuration files and store the result in the cmdb. Object configuration overview nagios core documentation. You can take one or more virgin pcs, turn on the power, and after a few minutes, the. Nagios configuration how to configure nagios geekpeek. How to install fan fully automated nagios duration. Fan stands for fully automated nagios and it is designed as a quick and easy installation of nagios along with the most used tools in the nagios community. On top of the operating system constraints, there are a ton of plugins and addons that add to the headache of keeping nagios uptodate and functioning properly in. Nagios core allows you to deploy additional frontends to customize the look, feel and function of your ui.
Monitor your entire it infrastructure quickly with the most powerful monitoring solution on the market. Once you have downloaded this software, you can either use the iso image directly to install into a virtualized environment such as virtualbox or vmware or you can choose to burn the iso image to a cddvd and then install directly. This tutorial was tested in ubuntu only, but taking into account that we will be compiling almost everything from source, this instructions might work in other distributions like centos and suse linux as well. Linux, mysql, nagios, nagios plugins, nareto, nagvis, centreon, netsnmp and ndoutils. Installation and configuration of nagios on ubuntu 16 04 duration. Prtg network monitor is an allinclusive monitoring software solution developed by paessler. Nagios xi easy network, server monitoring and alerting. Services are one of the central objects in the monitoring logic. There are several different configuration files that youre going to need to create or edit before you start monitoring anything. This is where the location of nagios log file, status. I looked at the documentation but dont see how to configure a range of ip addresses for monitoring. Jun 27, 2012 this document describes how to automate adding and removing hosts and services in nagios xi from the command line. How to add windows host to nagios monitoring server.
If you need install an application to monitor, with a simple installation and no many configuration or compilation, you can use fan version 2. Fan fully automated nagios fan, fully automated nagios, rencontres mondiales du logiciel libre 2008 fan, fully automated nagios, paris capitale du libre 2008. Fan fully automated nagios goals is to provide a cd based on centos in order to simplify installation of nagios and other nagios tools. This is designed to allow for maximum flexibility with a variety of administrators setups. Some administrators may have need to automate the process of adding and removing hosts and services in nagios xi for use with cloud computing or large environments where solutions like puppet or chef may already be implemented. These include configuration frontends, performance graphing, autodiscovery, and distributed monitoring. Nagios is a free opensource enterpriseclass monitoring system released under gpl license. While it will not install natively on a windows server, you can use our prepackaged vm and install it on a virtual box with a program like vmware player, hyperv or vsphere. Equipped with an easytouse, intuitive interface with a cuttingedge monitoring engine, prtg network monitor optimizes connections and workloads as well as reduces operational costs by avoiding outages while saving time and controlling service level agreements slas.
We assume that youve already installed and configured nagios server according to our following guides. Onecmdb is an open source cmdb, configuration management database, as defined by itil. Nagios xi extends on proven, enterpriseclass open source components to deliver the best network, server and application monitoring solution for todays demanding organizational requirements. Its a system to install and configure linux systems and software packages on computers as well as virtual machines, from small labs to largescale infrastructures like clusters and virtual environments. Jan, 2020 many admins and engineers who are not familiar with linuxunix commands and architecture prefer to work within windows serverdesktop instead, with a more fully automated approach. Nagios xi was built to run natively on centosrhel, debian, and ubuntu linux. At the time of this writing, the latest stable release is nagios 4. Verify your nagios core configuration nagios core documentation.
Oct 08, 2014 fan stands for fully automated nagios and it is designed as a quick and easy installation of nagios along with the most used tools in the nagios community. Download the latest nagios core plugins package 50 plugins. Centreons aiopsready it monitoring platform provides holistic visibility to complex it workflows from cloudtoedge. Go to the nagios downloads page, and click the skip to download link below the form. If youre not yet at least somewhat familiar with puppet, this article might seem rather sparse on explanation. I have better luck getting centreon to work if i use the webpage for everything.
Download fully automated nagios from this page, you must choose either a 32bit or 64bit version of the software. This is a grooving process before it was all manual but slowly we are getting a more automated installation process so hopefully this will keep improving in the future as well and some of the steps might go away. External object configuration files are object definitions which are processed by nagios xi but are not maintained or managed using the nagios xi web gui or configuration database. Fan est distribue sous forme dimage disque, et donc tres facile a installer. Webbased configuration provides advanced configuration features.