Nagios Plugins Quick-and-Dirty Installation Instructions -------------------------------------------------------- 0) If using the CVS tree, you need m4, automake, and autoconf. To start out, run: # aclocal # autoconf # autoheader # automake or you can run ./tools/setup Currently we are only supporting autoconf 2.13 and automake 1.4p5. Support for the latest autoconf and automake are in the works. 1) Run the configure script to initialize variables and create a Makefile, etc. ./configure --prefix=BASEDIRECTORY --with-nagios-user=SOMEUSER --with-nagios-group=SOMEGROUP --with-cgiurl=SOMEURL a) Replace BASEDIRECTORY with the path of the directory under which Nagios is installed (default is '/usr/local/nagios') b) Replace SOMEUSER with the name of a user on your system that will be assigned permissions to the installed plugins (default is 'nagios') c) Replace SOMEGRP with the name of a group on your system that will be assigned permissions to the installed plugins (default is 'nagios') d) Replace CGIURL with the path used to access the Nagios CGIs with a web browser (default is '/nagios/cgi-bin') 2) Compile the plugins with the following command: make all 3) Install the compiled plugins and plugin scripts with the following command: make install NOTE: The installation procedure will attempt to place the plugins in a 'libexec/' subdirectory in the base directory you specified with the --prefix argument to the configure script. 4) Verify that your host configuration file (hosts.cfg) for Nagios contains the correct paths to the new plugins. That's it. If you have any problems or questions, feel free send mail to nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net or nagiosplug-help@lists.sourceforge.net Please send patches and bugs to nagiosplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net and post them on http://sourceforge.net/projects/nagiosplug.