How to Install the Nagios Plugins on CentOS Linux

Installing Nagios Plugins for CentOS

Hi! The Tutorial shows you Step-by-Step How to Install Nagios 4 Plugins on CentOS GNU/Linux.

The Nagios Plugins allow you to monitor hosts, devices, services, protocols, and applications with Nagios.

Moreover, the Nagios Workflow Management Features are:

• Monitoring: IT staff configure Nagios to monitor critical IT infrastructure components
• Alerting: Nagios sends alerts when critical infrastructure components fail and recover
• Response: IT staff can acknowledge alerts and begin resolving outages and investigating security alerts immediately
• Reporting: Reports provide a historical record of outages, events, notifications, and alert response for later review
• Maintenance: Scheduled downtime prevents alerts during scheduled maintenance and upgrade windows
• Planning: Trending and capacity planning graphs and reports allow you to identify necessary infrastructure upgrades before failures occur.

1. Open a Shell Terminal emulator window
   Start Typing ‘term’ on Desktop.
   (Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)

   

   In case first see: Terminal QuickStart Guide.

2. How to Install Nagios Core for CentOS

   Nagios Core Installation

   Nagios Core Setup

3. Download Latest Nagios Plugins Linux Source

   Nagios Plugins tar.gz Archive

   Nagios Plugins

4. Extracting Nagios Plugins.

   

   Or from Command Line:

   tar zxvf ~/Downloads/nagios-plugins*.tar.gz -C /tmp/

5. Compiling and Installing Nagios Plugins on CentOS.

   cd /tmp/nagios-plugins*

   ./configure --with-nagios-user=nagios --with-nagios-group=nagios

   make

   sudo make install