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Nagios Remote (client setup)

This page describes details on how to setup a Nagios remote (monitored) server. This is to be monitored by the monitor server (Nagios) - docker - talked about here Docker Cheatsheet.

Setup User

useradd monitor
passwd -l monitor
su - monitor
mkdir .ssh
cd .ssh
touch authorized_keys
chmod 700 .
chmod 600 authorized_keys
cat >> authorized_keys

Install nagios-plugins

yum install epel-release
yum install nagios-plugins-disk
yum install nagios-plugins-load
yum install nagios-plugins-users