Nagios

For any of you using Nagios Administrator, and you’re native English speakers, the fact that it always defaults to German may irk you. Here’s how to do it. Thanks to h-w on the Nagios Portal Forums. # cd /var/www/nagiosadmin # cd apps/backend/config/ # nano i18n.yml and change the default_culture: de to default_culture: en # cd /var/www/nagiosadmin # ./symfony clear-cache Now you should be good to go and it will load up in english....

It’s easy, once you have nagiosadministrator installed, you’ll probably notice there’s no easy way to actually reach nagios. To add a quick button to the toolbar to do this, follow these steps: SSH to server running nagios/nagiosadministrator Go to your nagios administrator directory, ours is /var/www/nagiosadmin Now, edit the menu file # nano apps/backend/lib/topMenu.class.php Now, change the first class topMenu from this class topMenu { protected static $items = array( 'contact' => 'Contacts', 'contactgroup' => 'Contact Groups', 'os' => 'Operating Systems', 'service' => 'Services', 'hostgroup' => 'Host Groups', 'host' => 'Hosts', 'command' => 'Commands', 'template' => 'Templates', 'generator' => 'Generator' ); to this...

Gone are the days of tedious console only configuration of Nagios. While it’s an excellent system monitoring tool, it can be a little daunting to configure and setup. Not to mention editing 5 or 6 configuration files when adding one host. In April 2008, Nagios Administrator was released, which promises to deliver an easy to use administration interface for configuring your Nagios installation with ease. The interface allows for adding contacts, contact groups, services, operating systems, and other settings....