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Install Nagios Core and Nagios Plugins - Nagios Tutorial
From the course: Learning Nagios
Install Nagios Core and Nagios Plugins
- [Tutor] Nagios.com has a pretty detailed set of quick-start guides for getting basic Nagios Core server and plugins installed. We'll be walking through the instructions for Ubuntu 16.04, that are on the Nagios website, I'll be including an abbreviated version with the Exercise Files, that you can use for copying and pasting. I think it's better to run through these one by one, while you're learning, instead of trying to run all of them at once, that helps you see all the steps of the process. To get started, we'll head over to our Nagios Vagrant box and I'll log in with vagrant ssh nagios, you should be able to run all of these commands as the Nagios user, because we're using Sudo, so I'll copy the first two commands, this installs the prerequisites and this should take a minute, depending on your internet speed, I'll clear the screen before we move on. Nagios has been around a long time and some of this is a bit old school, for example, we'll be compiling this from source, rather…
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