Setting up the Nagios software for standard IT infrastructure monitoring purposes on our Alpine Linux virtual machine
?Welcome back to another tutorial from our Alpine Linux explorations tutorial series.
This time we are going to run the Nagios software on our Alpine Linux virtual machine for standard IT infrastructure monitoring purposes.
?We need to complete several steps to get it working correctly.
1. We need to power on our Alpine Linux virtual machine from the Oracle Virtual Box Manager.
2. Once our Alpine Linux virtual machine execution environment has fully booted we are ready to begin the process – system ready.
?3. We need to open the Linux Terminal.
?4. We need to switch to the root user to run the necessary commands to install the Nagios software correctly.?
?5. We first need to update our Alpine Linux virtual machine execution environment. First, run the command ‘apk update’.
?6. We then need to run the command ‘apk upgrade’.
?7. Now the Alpine Linux virtual machine execution environment is fully updated.?
?8. We need to run the command ‘reboot’.
9. Now we need to log back in, open the Linux Terminal again and switch to the root account.
10. We need to install the Lighttpd webserver to support our Nagios software.
11. We have successfully installed the Lighttpd webserver onto our Alpine Linux Virtual machine execution environment.
12. Our Lighttpd webserver is active and running on our Alpine Linux Virtual Machine execution environment.
13. We need to enable the option for fast CGI.
14. The option for fast CGI is now enabled.
15. We can now install the PHP support packages necessary for our Nagios software.
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16. We are ready to install the support PHP packages.
17. We can now restart our Lighttpd webserver to enable the new changes we just made.
18. MySQL support must also be added to enable our Nagios software.
19. MySQL support is fully enabled.
20. We can now move to our next step.
21. We can now add the Nagios software to our Alpine Linux Virtual Machine execution environment.
22. We have started the Nagios daemon on our Alpine Linux Virtual Machine execution environment.
23. We must create the Symlink to enable the usage of the Nagios software web interface using our Lighttpd webserver.
24. We must also change permissions to fully enable the functionality of our Nagios software.
25. Nagios is active and running on our Alpine Linux Virtual Machine execution environment.
26. It is alive!
27. We have Victory!
28. The Nagios software is now actively running and ready to be configured to our needs.
29. We can now run the poweroff command to shut down our Alpine Linux Virtual Machine execution environment.
That was most enjoyable. See you in the next one!
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