Install Nagios Plugins and NRPE Addon

Posted September 2nd, 2008 by Perk1z

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root@titik [~/herman]# wget http://transact.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/nagiosplug/nagios-plugins-1.4.12.tar.gz
–10:41:05– http://transact.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/nagiosplug/nagios-plugins-1.4.12.tar.gz
Resolving transact.dl.sourceforge.net… 202.55.147.10
Connecting to transact.dl.sourceforge.net|202.55.147.10|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 1831377 (1.7M) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: `nagios-plugins-1.4.12.tar.gz’

100%[=======================================>] 1,831,377 218K/s in 9.2s

10:41:15 (195 KB/s) - `nagios-plugins-1.4.12.tar.gz’ saved [1831377/1831377]

root@titik [~/herman]# wget http://transact.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/nagios/nrpe-2.12.tar.gz
–10:42:18– http://transact.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/nagios/nrpe-2.12.tar.gz
Resolving transact.dl.sourceforge.net… 202.55.147.10
Connecting to transact.dl.sourceforge.net|202.55.147.10|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 405725 (396K) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: `nrpe-2.12.tar.gz’

100%[=======================================>] 405,725 166K/s in 2.4s

10:42:21 (166 KB/s) - `nrpe-2.12.tar.gz’ saved [405725/405725]

root@titik [~/herman]# tar zxvf nagios-plugins-1.4.12.tar.gz
nagios-plugins-1.4.12/
nagios-plugins-1.4.12/gl/
nagios-plugins-1.4.12/gl/m4/
nagios-plugins-1.4.12/gl/m4/lib-link.m4
nagios-plugins-1.4.12/gl/m4/include_next.m4
nagios-plugins-1.4.12/gl/m4/strndup.m4
nagios-plugins-1.4.12/gl/m4/onceonly_2_57.m4
nagios-plugins-1.4.12/gl/m4/inttypes_h.m4
nagios-plugins-1.4.12/gl/m4/sockpfaf.m4
nagios-plugins-1.4.12/gl/m4/mountlist.m4
nagios-plugins-1.4.12/gl/m4/strdup.m4
nagios-plugins-1.4.12/gl/m4/stdint.m4
nagios-plugins-1.4.12/gl/m4/getaddrinfo.m4
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nagios-plugins-1.4.12/perlmods/Class-Accessor-0.31.tar.gz
nagios-plugins-1.4.12/perlmods/Math-Calc-Units-1.06.tar.gz
nagios-plugins-1.4.12/command.cfg.in
nagios-plugins-1.4.12/CODING
root@titik [~/herman]# cd nagios-plugins-1.4.12/
root@titik [~/herman/nagios-plugins-1.4.12]# ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install… /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane… yes
checking for gawk… gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)… yes
checking build system type… i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type… i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for gcc… gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name… a.out
checking whether the C compiler works… yes
checking whether we are cross compiling… no
checking for suffix of executables…
checking for suffix of object files… o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler… yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g… yes
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config.status: creating po/Makefile
–with-apt-get-command:
–with-ping6-command: /bin/ping6 -n -U -w %d -c %d %s
–with-ping-command: /bin/ping -n -U -w %d -c %d %s
–with-ipv6: yes
–with-mysql: /usr/bin/mysql_config
–with-openssl: yes
–with-gnutls: no
–enable-extra-opts: no
–with-perl: /usr/local/bin/perl
–enable-perl-modules: no
–with-cgiurl: /nagios/cgi-bin
–with-trusted-path: /bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
root@titik [~/herman/nagios-plugins-1.4.12]# make
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/herman/nagios-plugins-1.4.12′
Making all in gl
make[2]: Entering directory `/root/herman/nagios-plugins-1.4.12/gl’
{ echo ‘/* DO NOT EDIT! GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY! */’; \
cat ./alloca.in.h; \
} > alloca.h-t
mv -f alloca.h-t alloca.h
rm -f configmake.h-t configmake.h
{ echo ‘/* DO NOT EDIT! GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY! */’; \
echo ‘#define PREFIX “/usr/local/nagios”‘; \
echo ‘#define EXEC_PREFIX “/usr/local/nagios”‘; \
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Making all in po
make[2]: Entering directory `/root/herman/nagios-plugins-1.4.12/po’
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all’.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/herman/nagios-plugins-1.4.12/po’
make[2]: Entering directory `/root/herman/nagios-plugins-1.4.12′
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all-am’.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/herman/nagios-plugins-1.4.12′
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/herman/nagios-plugins-1.4.12′
root@titik [~/herman/nagios-plugins-1.4.12]# make install

root@titik [~/herman]# tar zxf nrpe-2.12.tar.gz root@titik [~/herman]# cd nrpe-2.12 root@titik [~/herman/nrpe-2.12]# ./configure root@titik [~/herman/nrpe-2.12]# make all root@titik [~/herman/nrpe-2.12]# make install-plugin
cd ./src/ && make install-plugin
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/herman/nrpe-2.12/src’
/usr/bin/install -c -m 775 -o nagios -g nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/libexec
/usr/bin/install -c -m 775 -o nagios -g nagios check_nrpe /usr/local/nagios/libexec
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/herman/nrpe-2.12/src’
root@titik [~/herman/nrpe-2.12]# make install-daemon
cd ./src/ && make install-daemon
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/herman/nrpe-2.12/src’
/usr/bin/install -c -m 775 -o nagios -g nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/bin
/usr/bin/install -c -m 775 -o nagios -g nagios nrpe /usr/local/nagios/bin
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/herman/nrpe-2.12/src’
root@titik [~/herman/nrpe-2.12]# make install-daemon-config
/usr/bin/install -c -m 775 -o nagios -g nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 -o nagios -g nagios sample-config/nrpe.cfg /usr/local/nagios/etc