Install and Configure Nagios for PostgreSQL/PPAS on Linux
One of my Colleague had asked how he can use Nagios for PostgreSQL Monitoring. So, I thought of writing steps to show the blog readers about nagios Configuration for PostgreSQL/PPAS. Following are the steps: 1. Download Nagios Core wget http://nagios.sourceforge.net/download/cvs/nagios-HEAD.tar.gz 2. For Installing Nagios, following packages would be required,so make sure you have them installed on your server. gcc make binutils cpp libpq-dev libmysqlclient15-dev libssl0.9.8 libssl-dev pkg-config apache2 libgd2-xpm libgd2-xpm-dev libgd-tools libpng12-dev libjpeg62-dev perl libperl-dev libperl5.8 libnet-snmp-perl 3. Create nagios user and group as given below: [root@localhost]# useradd nagios [root@localhost]# passwd nagios [root@localhost]# groupadd nagcmd [root@localhost]# usermod -G nagcmd nagios [root@localhost]# usermod -G nagcmd apache 4. Now, untar Nagios Core/Nagios Plugin using following command: tar -xvf nagios-HEAD.tar.gz 5. Now configure Nagios