Icinga is a popular open source monitoring system that checks hosts and services, and notifies you of their statuses. Icinga is a fork of Nagios, so they are compatible and share many similarities, and it has been gaining popularity due to a more agile development cycle when compared to Nagios.
Icinga keeps watch over networks and any conceivable network resource notifies the user of errors and recoveries and generates performance data for reporting. Scalable and extensible, Icinga can monitor complex, large environments across dispersed locations. For more refer Icinga.org
Step1: Add a Repository
Add repository link to /etc/apt/sources.list file
# vim /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/formorer/icinga/ubuntu xenial main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/formorer/icinga/ubuntu xenial main
# apt-get update
Step2: Install icinga
# apt-get install icinga icinga-doc icinga-idoutils mysql-server libdbd-mysql mysql-client
Once installation done start the icinga service,
# service icinga start
To Check the status,
# service icinga status
Step3: Start apache2 and mysql
# service apache2 restart
# service mysql restart
Step4: Accessing the Icinga User Interface
Go to http://yourhost/icinga, and log in using the icingaadmin login that you set up during the Icinga installation.
You should see that Icinga is monitoring one host, localhost (your Icinga server), and seven services, like this:
The top row shows that the single monitored host is “Up”, and the bottom row shows that there are seven “OK” monitored services.
If the status of localhost is “Down”, you might need to change the permissions of your ping command. Run the following command to allow the nagios user to use the ping command:
# chmod u+s `which ping`
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