Tuesday, 20 August 2013

Check_MK, one of the best plugin for Nagios

Check_MK is a collection of extensions for the IT-Monitoring-Kernel of Nagios and together with this, and ideally also with PNP4Nagios and NagVis constitutes a complete IT-Monitoring-System. Check_MK is 100% Open-Source and is available under the terms of the GNU GPL.

View homepage to get full information:
http://mathias-kettner.com


First must install nagios: view here

After download and extract from :
http://mathias-kettner.com/check_mk_download.html



Install
Must install libapache2-mod-python first.

Go to extracted folder in terminal.
sudo -s
./setup.sh

Next next next and next.
setup progress will auto detect elements.


setup check_mk

Type y, Enter

Restart nagios and apache2 services
service nagios restart
service apache2 restart


This is the result (image from wiki):



Error when run

When I restart linux, having an error
"Livestatus problem: Cannot connect to  'unix:/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/live': [Errno 111] Connection refused"
This is because pemission, use commands:

chown nagios.nagcmd /usr/local/nagios/var/rw
chmod g+rwx /usr/local/nagios/var/rw
chmod g+s /usr/local/nagios/var/rw

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