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Nagios installation path

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Can i install nagios in any path ?
or it should be in /usr/local/nagios?

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04.20.2008 at 02:17PM PDT, ID: 21397626

Rank: Guru

omarfarid:

You can install it under any directory. It is up to you to install it any where you like. The path /usr/local is more convenient since many S/W packages also install under it and many users will look under this dir for installed S/W binaries.

04.20.2008 at 02:24PM PDT, ID: 21397648

Rank: Wizard

duncan_roe:

You can build nagios to install anywhere.
Note that in the example above, you are actually installing nagios in /usr/local - the nagios directory is part of the installation.
You change the install directory by using the --prefix= directive to configure prior to running make.
If you have an already-built package, you likely have to put it where it was built for. There are lots of files in the share subdirectory of nagios, and the software might have trouble finding them if nagios/ were put elsewhere.
What exactly is the problem you have?

04.20.2008 at 02:37PM PDT, ID: 21397677

jaisonshereen:

i have to setup monitor for database ...
ie : select * from dual
must work and need to be monitored by nagios.

But..oracle is running in Oracle db account and there is no permission to mkdir even...
so i though of going to another account ..aphilips and create my directory over there.. and install nagios..
and monitor oracle...!!

it is possible right ?

04.20.2008 at 02:40PM PDT, ID: 21397690

Rank: Guru

omarfarid:

Yes it is possible but the other account should be able to use oracle if you want to run sql scripts, etc

04.20.2008 at 02:53PM PDT, ID: 21397714

Rank: Wizard

duncan_roe:

Is this a problem with the user that runs nagios, rather than the location of the install?

04.20.2008 at 02:59PM PDT, ID: 21397732

jaisonshereen:

i dont have permission to create folders in both the user accounts ... how can i proceed with this ?

04.20.2008 at 03:02PM PDT, ID: 21397739

jaisonshereen:

i havent installed nagios ..i am going to install it ... so its not a problem with nagios ..because i am not created any user for nagios specifically....

do i need to create another user account for nagios ? or can i use the existing one.. ie : oralcedb were oracle is running ( but this account have any permission to create a directory )

how can i proceed ?

04.20.2008 at 03:02PM PDT, ID: 21397741

Rank: Guru

omarfarid:

Which directories you have perms over?

Can you run the installation as root? I think you need to be root if you wants to install under /usr/local

04.20.2008 at 03:13PM PDT, ID: 21397778

jaisonshereen:

ok... then i ll ask the client for root credentials and update here .. thanks cya!!

04.20.2008 at 06:07PM PDT, ID: 21398161

Rank: Wizard

duncan_roe:

As a non-privileged user, you could build nagios from source to install in your home directory:

./configure --prefix=<home directory>
make
make install

but running it with your user only gives access to information that you are allowed to access

04.21.2008 at 03:32AM PDT, ID: 21400133

jaisonshereen:

duncan roe:->

i did the same .... but its not working ...showing errors!

i ran ./configure with the arguments and i "make all" it succeeded then i used make " make install" it gave some errors and said it failed ...

i was not in root account...i was in oracledb account where oracle is running ...

04.21.2008 at 05:54AM PDT, ID: 21401106

Rank: Wizard

duncan_roe:

What errors did it give exactly?
What were the arguments you gave to configure?

04.21.2008 at 02:44PM PDT, ID: 21406353

jaisonshereen:

The command is this :

                       
             ./configure --prefix=/home/oracledb/nagios-3.0.1 --with-cgiurl=/home/oracledb/nagios-3.0.1/cgi --with-htmurl=/home/oracledb/nagios-3.0.1 --with-nagios-user=oracledb --with-nagios-grp=corpdb

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04.21.2008 at 02:55PM PDT, ID: 21406448

jaisonshereen:

Review the options above for accuracy. If they look okay,
type 'make all' to compile the main program and CGIs.

Its configured successfully ..but
when i shoot this command

make all

Below is the error i am getting :

                       
         
           
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             ROOT@pythia# make all
cd ./base && make
gcc -g -O2 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -DNSCORE  -c  ../common/snprintf.c
In file included from ../common/../include/config.h:327,
                 from ../common/snprintf.c:108:
/home/gnu-sol/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.5/2.7.2/include/dlfcn.h:53: warning: `RTLD_NOW' redefined
../common/../include/config.h:111: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
/home/gnu-sol/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.5/2.7.2/include/dlfcn.h:54: warning: `RTLD_GLOBAL' redefined
../common/../include/config.h:107: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
gcc -g -O2 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -DNSCORE -o nagios nagios.c broker.o nebmods.o checks.o config.o commands.o events.o flapping.o logging.o macros-base.o notifications.o sehandlers.o skiplist.o utils.o retention-base.o xretention-base.o comments-base.o xcomments-base.o objects-base.o xobjects-base.o statusdata-base.o xstatusdata-base.o perfdata-base.o xperfdata-base.o downtime-base.o xdowntime-base.o  ../common/snprintf.o     -lm  -lpthread -ldl -lrt
gcc: ../common/snprintf.o: No such file or directory
In file included from ../include/config.h:327,
                 from nagios.c:38:
/home/gnu-sol/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.5/2.7.2/include/dlfcn.h:53: warning: `RTLD_NOW' redefined
../include/config.h:111: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
/home/gnu-sol/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.5/2.7.2/include/dlfcn.h:54: warning: `RTLD_GLOBAL' redefined
../include/config.h:107: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `nagios'
Current working directory /home/oracledb/nagios-3.0.1/base
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all'
ROOT@pythia# ^C
ROOT@pythia#
           
         

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04.21.2008 at 03:00PM PDT, ID: 21406482

Rank: Wizard

duncan_roe:

This install will try to create /home/oracledb/nagios-3.0.1/nagios/ - do you have access to do that?
Also, doesn't the cgi directory have to be where your web server expects to find it?

04.21.2008 at 03:07PM PDT, ID: 21406537

jaisonshereen:

i dont have permission to apply command "mkdir" so i dont think access to do that .. and i cannot proceed with installation ..right?

04.21.2008 at 03:09PM PDT, ID: 21406547

jaisonshereen:

Any changes need to made to ./config command ?

04.21.2008 at 03:28PM PDT, ID: 21406685

Rank: Wizard

duncan_roe:

Posted before I saw your latest post. You're building for Solaris - please mention that in future questions if you are sending them to the Linux topic area - it's fine that you do, just helps to know.
This is a bit strange. You have a couple of warnings about redefinitions but no error, then gcc has not made the .o file.. This has nothing to do with the configured install directory by the way, it's a straight-out build problem.
`RTLD_NOW' and `RTLD_GLOBAL' have no business being in config.h: they are part of libdl. You could try the effect of removing the offending lines (compare them first with the "official" lines in /lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.5/2.7.2/include/dlfcn.h). The file is there instead of /usr/include because it's a "fixed" version, created during the installation of gcc. This has likely confused configure, so it has put those lines in config.h.
Gcc 2.7.2 (and indeed Solaris 2.5) are very old, I guess you know that. That could lead to problems building some sources, but I don't think that's the problem here.
The only error I can see is:

gcc: ../common/snprintf.o: No such file or directory

That file should have been created by the line:

gcc -g -O2 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DNSCORE -c ../common/snprintf.c

which only got warnings. But for some reason it wasn't. As I said before, try removing the offending lines from config.h.

Also, you might like to try just "make" instead of "make all". This will make the default target, which may not be "all". Solaris 2.5 has snprintf - Nagios has no need to make its own copy.

04.21.2008 at 03:30PM PDT, ID: 21406700

Rank: Wizard

duncan_roe:

It doesn't matter where you install the nagios executable, so you can proceed from that point of view.

04.21.2008 at 03:42PM PDT, ID: 21406773

jaisonshereen:

I applied the command that u provide its show the error below :

                       
             ROOT@pythia#  gcc -g -O2 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -DNSCORE  -c  ../common/snprintf.c
gcc: ../common/snprintf.c: No such file or directory
gcc: No input files
gcc: ../common/snprintf.c: No such file or directory
gcc: No input files

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04.21.2008 at 03:43PM PDT, ID: 21406779

jaisonshereen:

mkdir command is working... sorry for confusing !!

04.21.2008 at 04:06PM PDT, ID: 21406904

jaisonshereen:

Where is config.h i cannot see that file in my folder ...to remove offending lines ?

04.21.2008 at 06:02PM PDT, ID: 21407443