Comments on: Installing Nagios with MacPorts

By: Mike (owner)

Mike (owner) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:23:12 +0000

I’ve fixed the mistake in step 4, thanks for that. I didn’t get very far with this, Nagios seems more painful to configure than any piece of software should ever be. For a network that’s constantly adding and updating devices, it’s not very useful.
I can say I got the thing running successfully with these steps, but that’s about as far as I got with it.

By: Mortimer Plantagenate

Mortimer Plantagenate — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:03:54 +0000

I’m very appreciative someone is assuming the entire groundwork is laid by MacPorts to get this going, thanks a lot for this.
Not to be anal or anything, I still don’t have this working yet in Snow Leopard or Leo(second fresh setup with 403 access denied errors) but it’s only been a short while I’ve been trying.
For the sake of completeness, it seems a bit out of order that the nagios-specific ScriptAlias comes before the Alias additions to the file, is that required?
It is obvious that a MacPorts-installed Apache2 is being installed as well, but that’s not mentioned.
Also, step 4 assumes the working directory is /opt/local/etc/nagios, so you may want to throw in a “cd ..” at the beginning of that step.
Please understand I just want to verify I’m doing the steps correctly before I tinker with users and chown(wasn’t there supposed to be a nagioscmd group as well?)

By: Clinton Blackmore

Clinton Blackmore — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:24:06 +0000

Fair enough. Thanks.

By: Mike (owner)

Mike (owner) — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:32:29 +0000

Pretty much anything I’d guess. It’s not a terribly complicated piece of software! “sudo port install nagios” is the easiest way to find out.

By: Clinton Blackmore

Clinton Blackmore — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:10:29 +0000

I’m glad to stumble upon this. Any ideas which variants of OS X this’ll build and run on properly (Tiger Server, Leopard Client, … ?)