Installing Nagios Plugins for openSUSE
Hi! The Tutorial shows you Step-by-Step How to Install Nagios 4 Plugins on openSUSE 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.
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How to Install Nagios Core for openSUSE
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Open a Shell Terminal emulator window
Start Typing ‘term’ on Desktop.
(Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)In case first see: Terminal QuickStart Guide.
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Download Latest Nagios Plugins Linux Source
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Extracting Nagios Plugins.
Or from Command Line:
tar zxvf ~/Downloads/nagios-plugins*.tar.gz -C /tmp/
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Compiling and Installing Nagios Plugins on openSUSE.
cd /tmp/nagios-plugins*
./configure --with-nagios-user=nagios --with-nagios-group=nagios
make
sudo make install