Comments on: Nagios Network Monitoring System Setup in Ubuntu

By: Gavin

Gavin — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:55:53 +0000

Hi, great tutorial! although I have encountered a small problem. Everything installed fine and I followed all of the steps up to number 7.

Then I get this message:
#/etc/init.d/nagios start

starting nagios;No directory, logging in with Home=/

any ideas?

By: RBD1987

RBD1987 — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 14:43:52 +0000

HI, Pleaaaase help me i follow this tuto step by steeep but i have this!

/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios - /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
-bash: /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios: No such file or directory

Thank you in advance.
rahma

By: Nooby

Nooby — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:13:18 +0000

Hi Gays,

I followed these instructions. It seems like everything is OK
But, when I try to start nagios: “/etc/init.d/nagios start”
I got following massage:

“su:Permission denined
(Ignored)
done”

I try to start nagios as a root.
Do you have any idea what is the problem ?
I’ve checked permissions for almost all files and folders and it seems everything is OK.

Could you please help
Thank you in advance.
Poul.

By: Bob Conner

Bob Conner — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:04:51 +0000

I am just curious what makes them different?(If there even is a difference).

What effect does the Oxygen have on Hydrogen?

Is HHO still explosive?

Also is HHO made by putting negative and positive charge into water,which then causes the water to bubble is this HHO?(or something else?)

--Thanks ahead of time.

By: nagnoob

nagnoob — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:23:20 +0000

Hi,

Cool article, followed it step by step but got this: -
root@ubuntu:/usr/local/nagios/etc# /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
bash: /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios: No such file or directory

There is no bin directory in .usr/local/nagios.

By: Jack

Jack — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 13:13:59 +0000

This article is just perfect!

By: thiyagi

thiyagi — Fri, 20 May 2011 14:59:51 +0000

thanks for the tutorial..

By: ghostmac

ghostmac — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:55:09 +0000

I just wanted to say thank for a great tutorial! Worked like a charm. For those who follow this and get handed a file when attempting to access Nagios via a browser for the first time, you need to install PHP (apt-get install php5-gd).

By: sfcg

sfcg — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 17:03:06 +0000

LOL. Nevermind. I just authorized my user for everything in cgi.cfg.

Thanks!

Chris

By: sfcg

sfcg — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 16:45:48 +0000

This is an awesome article. I was able to bring up the app no problem. I’ve read nearly 100 pages in a nagios manual and learned all about the objects, and the cfg files and how they interact.

I’m however running into a problem where the web interface is telling me I don’t have permission for anything:

“It appears as though you do not have permission to view information for any of the hosts you requested…”

I get this for all pages that are supposed to display objects.

I followed the intructions here:

http://onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2002/09/26/nagios.html?page=3

But no dice. Any input?

Thanks,

Chris

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:35:45 +0000

5) Configure the Web Interface

Install the Nagios web config file in the Apache conf.d directory.

#make install-webconf

WHAT file and WHERE do you execute this? I have tried 10 times and ALWAYS get the same ERROR. Nothing to execute as commands not there.

Why not say WHERE and HOW to execute this. and WHAT file. This is why open source doesn’t work instructions are ALWAYS Half given and it is expected that we all created the software. COMPLETE instructions are requested

By: cerealmonster

cerealmonster — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:57:08 +0000

Nuno:

I was running into the same issue, and I discovered I had forgot to install the PHP package on the nagios server. I ran apt-get install php5-gd, rebooted apache and rebooted nagios.

By: Santa monica chiropractor

Santa monica chiropractor — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 20:04:23 +0000

I have the same thing:
My directory only goes as far as
/usr/loca/nagios/etc
Contents are
cgi.cfg
commands.cfg
localhost.cfg
nagios.cfg
resourced.cfg
Any help please?

By: Denise Wyly

Denise Wyly — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 11:02:39 +0000

Could you explain more about the second paragraph.

By: Odyas

Odyas — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 12:20:38 +0000

Hi,
I did not get the objects directory after I followed all the steps, am I missing something?

My directory only goes as far as
/usr/loca/nagios/etc
Contents are
cgi.cfg
commands.cfg
localhost.cfg
nagios.cfg
resourced.cfg
Any help please?

By: fersil

fersil — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 20:52:44 +0000

Nuno, tray this:
htpasswd -c /etc/nagios/htpasswd.users nagios
or
htpasswd2 -c /etc/nagios/htpasswd.users nagios

boa sorte

By: Nuno

Nuno — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 09:17:55 +0000

Hi, it is indeed a good walk through but, i had no errors installing and configuring everything but when i open the web browser for the nagios administration page, i cannot view it it just gives me a file for download and i cannot view the page. it asks me for a username and password before it gives the file for downloading, the file contains html information. i think is something related with apache.

can anyone help me please?
this is not the first time this happens to me and i cannot solve it.

By: lcd monitor deals

lcd monitor deals — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:18:33 +0000

great, user friendly guide, i’ve been looking for something like this. I like how detailed it is. thanks!

By: Steve Mustafa

Steve Mustafa — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 06:01:54 +0000

Nice thanks. I would have added also installing php since its required and since you’ve already mentioned installing apache, otherwise, smooth like silk

By: Brandon Perry

Brandon Perry — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 18:13:00 +0000

you should also chsh to /bin/false or something for the nagios user