Implementar nconf en fedora

QUICK AND EASY NCONF INSTALLATION TUTORIAL:
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By Mike Hansen

The goal of this tutorial is to install and configure NConf. NConf is a web based tool for configuring and managing Nagios. Nagios is a great tool for monitoring the health of your network. This tutorial presupposes that you have already used the previous two tutorials to install Linux, Nagios, install MySQL2, have an Internetconnection, and have machines to monitor. The first two tutorials helps with such common tasks as starting and stopping services, accessing the Linux command line as root user, etc.

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Downloading and Installing NConf Configuring the NConf Installation Configuring Nagios to Use NConf Generated Setup

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Names of all products herein are used only to identifyproducts and the names are the trademarks of their respective owners. MontanaPBS makes no claim of ownership or association with the products or companies that own them. Copyright © 2011 by MontanaBPS/ Michael Hansen. MontanaPBS Montana State University VCB 183 – P.O. Box 173340 Bozeman, MT 59717-3340 USA Phone: +1.406.994.3437 Fax: +1.406.994.6545 URL: http://www.montanapbs.org 2 If MySQL is notinstalled, use the yum command to install at the console prompt: yum install mysql*

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Quick & Easy NConf Installation Tutorial – Published: 8/4/2011 Version: 1.00 Copyright © 2011 MontanaPBS/Michael Hansen. All rights reserved.

Downloading and Installing NConf: The first step is to download NConf. Go to http://www.nconf.org.

Click on the “Download” link.

Click on the link to the versionyou want to download and then click on the “Downloads” icon.

Quick & Easy NConf Installation Tutorial – Published: 8/4/2011 Version: 1.00 Copyright © 2011 MontanaPBS/Michael Hansen. All rights reserved.

Select the type of file you want to download

If you downloaded the tar.gz file, follow the next steps: 1. Depending on where you downloaded the .tar.gz file and the filename, the commandto decompress the archive using the gzip command is: a. b. If successful, there is no error message. 2. Expand the archive into the destination directory using the cd and tar commands as follows: a. b. If successful, you should see the files being expanded.

c. 3. Rename the extracted directory to the easier to type “nconf” name using the mv command. a. b. If successful, there is no errormessage.

If you downloaded the zip file, follow the next steps: 1. Depending on where you downloaded the .zip file and the filename, the command to decompress the archive using the cd and unzip commands are: a. b. If successful, you should see the files being expanded.

Quick & Easy NConf Installation Tutorial – Published: 8/4/2011 Version: 1.00 Copyright © 2011 MontanaPBS/Michael Hansen. All rightsreserved.

c. 2. Rename the extracted directory to the easier to type “nconf” name using the mv command. a. b. If successful, there is no error message.

Configuring the NConf Installation: With the software installed, read through the README section on the download page for the latest in settings that need to be changed to get NConf working. You can also find the README file in the/opt/nconf/ directory where NConf is now installed. The current version as of this writing recommends making the following changes to the default Fedora settings: 1. Update the /etc/php.ini file modifying the following settings as needed. As of Fedora 15, only the first item needed changing.

a. 2. Set permissions for NConf to work with the Apache webserver. The easiest way to do this is to set theuser/owner of the /opt/nconf/ directory and subdirectories to the same user as used by Apache, which is usually the user “apache.” The following shows how to use the cd and chown commands to first get into the NConf directory and then change the ownership of the NConf directory and subdirectories to the apache user. a. b. If successful, there is no error message. To check and see if the command was...