CentOS - Oct 2017 - Not Able to Configure Nagios Server 4.3.4 in Centos 7

Hi Team,


I was trying to install the Nagios server in Centos 7.
I had downloaded and unzipped the Nagios server and it's plugins file.

As per the installation instructions I ran the commands in the concerned folders
of ./configure , make , make install for both the core and the Nagios plugins.

I am not able to figure out the issue behind that it is not working
It did got installed using yum which was a previous 4.3.2 that that had it's
own errors and wanted me to update with no update of it available in the epel
repository.

Can anyone help with this ?

TIA
Abhinay

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> As per the installation instructions I ran the commands in the concerned
> folders of ./configure , make , make install for both the core and the
Nagios
> plugins.
> 
> I am not able to figure out the issue behind that it is not working It did
got
> installed using yum which was a previous 4.3.2 that that had it's own
errors
> and wanted me to update with no update of it available in the epel
> repository.
What's not working?  Did it compile correctly?  Nagios needs some extra
packages to for all of its features to work.  These can be installed via YUM
even if you compile Nagios itself from source.

Also, if you install Nagios from source, SELinux will prevent it from doing a
lot of stuff by default.  However, it's entirely possible to run Nagios with
SELinux in Enforcing mode with the right policy.

Thanks for your reply


Actually the case is that the compiling  process and make all, make install
processes didn't report any errors but when I trying to access or start the
service Nagios it gives me an error stating it's unable to find that
service.

This happens with me when I try to manually install the applications from
source.
Am I missing any important step in the installation process that could be
causing this issue.

Thanks and Regards,
Abhinay

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From: CentOS <centos-bounces at centos.org> on behalf of Chris Beattie
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Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 8:16:00 PM
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Subject: Re: [CentOS] Not Able to Configure Nagios Server 4.3.4 in Centos 7
> As per the installation instructions I ran the commands in the concerned
> folders of ./configure , make , make install for both the core and the
Nagios
> plugins.
>
> I am not able to figure out the issue behind that it is not working It did
got
> installed using yum which was a previous 4.3.2 that that had it's own
errors
> and wanted me to update with no update of it available in the epel
> repository.
What's not working?  Did it compile correctly?  Nagios needs some extra
packages to for all of its features to work.  These can be installed via YUM
even if you compile Nagios itself from source.

Also, if you install Nagios from source, SELinux will prevent it from doing a
lot of stuff by default.  However, it's entirely possible to run Nagios with
SELinux in Enforcing mode with the right policy.
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On 24 October 2017 at 08:57, Abhinay Khanna <abhinaykhanna15 at
outlook.com> wrote:
> Hi Team,
>
>
> I was trying to install the Nagios server in Centos 7.
> I had downloaded and unzipped the Nagios server and it's plugins file.
>
I am the maintainer of the Nagios package in EPEL so I may be able to help here.

I am guessing you are downloading the nagioscore zip file from the github?
> As per the installation instructions I ran the commands in the concerned
folders of ./configure , make , make install for both the core and the Nagios
plugins.
>
> I am not able to figure out the issue behind that it is not working
The default nagios configure will put things in many 'strange' places
which may work on some sort of BSD but do not work with most of the
Linux. There are a lot of configure options one needs to pass which
are in the src.rpm spec file which you can see at
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/nagios/tree/master

I hate to say this but a make install may have pushed files and
permissions all over this system so you are going to need to either
spend some time cleaning or redeploy.

If you want to make an updated rpm because I am not caught up:

yum install epel-releast
yum install fedpkg
fedpkg clone --anonymous nagios
cd nagios
fedpkg switch-branch epel7
fedpkg srpm
[This will make a src.rpm of the latest code.]
download the source code you want.
edit the spec file to point to the new src code.
check to see if a patch-0000 is turned on in the spec file. If it is
comment it out as it will contain a src diff to the maintenance
upstream branch
fedpkg mockbuild
start debugging what might have not worked or you will have fixed rpms
in results/

> It did got installed using yum which was a previous 4.3.2 that that had
it's own errors and wanted me to update with no update of it available in
the epel repository.
>
There is an update in epel-testing. I am looking for people to test it
so I can push it to stable.
> Can anyone help with this ?
>
> TIA
> Abhinay
>
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Hi Guys,

Thanks for helping out with things. I appreciate your help

The issue is resolved.

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From: CentOS <centos-bounces at centos.org> on behalf of Chris Beattie
<cbeattie at unitrends.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 8:16:00 PM
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Re: [CentOS] Not Able to Configure Nagios Server 4.3.4 in Centos 7
> As per the installation instructions I ran the commands in the concerned
> folders of ./configure , make , make install for both the core and the
Nagios
> plugins.
>
> I am not able to figure out the issue behind that it is not working It did
got
> installed using yum which was a previous 4.3.2 that that had it's own
errors
> and wanted me to update with no update of it available in the epel
> repository.
What's not working?  Did it compile correctly?  Nagios needs some extra
packages to for all of its features to work.  These can be installed via YUM
even if you compile Nagios itself from source.

Also, if you install Nagios from source, SELinux will prevent it from doing a
lot of stuff by default.  However, it's entirely possible to run Nagios with
SELinux in Enforcing mode with the right policy.
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