SDSC "nagios" roll

Overview

This roll bundles the Nagios cluster monitoring package.

For more information about the various packages included in the nagios roll please visit their official web pages:

Nagios is a powerful monitoring system that enables organizations to identify and resolve IT infrastructure problems before they affect critical business processes.
NSCA, the Nagios Service Check Acceptor is a Linux/Unix daemon allows you to integrate passive alerts and checks from remote machines and applications with Nagios.

Requirements

To build/install this roll you must have root access to a Rocks development machine (e.g., a frontend or development appliance).

If your Rocks development machine does not have Internet access you must download the appropriate nagios source file(s) using a machine that does have Internet access and copy them into the src/<package> directories on your Rocks development machine.

Dependencies

The sdsc-roll must be installed on the build machine, since the build process depends on make include files provided by that roll.

Building

To build the nagios-roll, execute this on a Rocks development machine (e.g., a frontend or development appliance):

% make 2>&1 | tee build.log

A successful build will create the file weka-*.disk1.iso. If you built the roll on a Rocks frontend, proceed to the installation step. If you built the roll on a Rocks development appliance, you need to copy the roll to your Rocks frontend before continuing with installation.

Installation

To install, execute these instructions on a Rocks frontend:

% rocks add roll *.iso
% rocks enable roll nagios
% cd /export/rocks/install
% rocks create distro
% rocks run roll nagios | bash

Testing

The nagios-roll includes a test script which can be run to verify proper installation of the roll documentation, binaries and module files. To run the test scripts execute the following command(s):

% /root/rolltests/nagios.t

sdsc / nagios-roll