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Setup Icinga Monitoring Tool on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7 
Icinga is an open source computer system and network monitoring application. It was originally created as a fork of the Nagios system monitoring application in 2009. 
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Icinga is attempting to get past perceived short-comings in Nagios' development process, as well as adding new features such as a modern Web 2.0 style user interface, additional database connectors (for MySQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL), and a REST API that lets administrators integrate numerous extensions without complicated modification of the Icinga core. 
Before we go ahead, lets install the required packages for Icinga. 
 
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Disable SELinux. 
 
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Reboot once done. 
 
Create icinga user and icinga-cmd group (allowing the external commands to be executed through the web interface) , add  icinga and apache user to the part of icinga-cmd group. 
 
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# groupadd icinga-cmd
# usermod -a -G icinga-cmd icinga
# usermod -a -G icinga-cmd apache</pre>
Download latest Icinga source tarball. 
 
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# wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/icinga/icinga/1.10.1/icinga-1.10.1.tar.gz
# tar -zxvf /tmp/icinga-1.10.1.tar.gz
# cd /tmp/icinga-1.10.1</pre>
Compile and Install Icinga: 
 
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# make all
# make install
# make install-init
# make install-config
# make install-commandmode
# make install-webconf
# make install-idoutils</pre>
Configure Icinga: 
 
Sample configuration files have now been installed in the /usr/local/icinga/etc/ directory. These sample files should work fine for getting started with Icinga. You’ll need to make just one change before you proceed. Edit the /usr/local/icinga/etc/objects/contacts.cfg config file with your favorite editor and change the email address associated with the nagiosadmin contact definition to the address you’d like to use for receiving alerts. 
 
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Change the Email address field to receive the notification. 
 
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Move sample idoutils configuration files to Icinga base directory. 
 
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# mv idomod.cfg-sample idomod.cfg
# mv ido2db.cfg-sample ido2db.cfg
# cd modules/
# mv idoutils.cfg-sample idoutils.cfg</pre>
Create database for idoutils: 
 
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# mysql -u root -p
MariaDB [(none)]> CREATE DATABASE icinga;
MariaDB [(none)]> GRANT USAGE ON icinga.* TO 'icinga'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'icinga' WITH MAX_QUERIES_PER_HOUR 0 MAX_CONNECTIONS_PER_HOUR 0 MAX_UPDATES_PER_HOUR 0;
MariaDB [(none)]> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
MariaDB [(none)]> quit</pre>
Import Database. 
 
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Configure Web Interface: 
 
Create a icingaadmin account for logging into the Icinga web interface. Remember the password that you assign to this user – you’ll need it later. 
 
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Restart Apache to make the new settings take effect. 
 
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Download and Install Nagios Plugins: 
 
Download Nagios Plugins to /tmp directory. 
 
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# wget http://nagios-plugins.org/download/nagios-plugins-2.0.3.tar.gz
# tar -zxvf /tmp/nagios-plugins-2.0.3.tar.gz
# cd /tmp/nagios-plugins-2.0.3/</pre>
Compile and install the plugins. 
 
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# make
# make install</pre>
Starting Icinga: 
 
Verify the sample Icinga configuration files. 
 
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If there are no errors, start Nagios and Idoutils. 
 
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# /etc/init.d/ido2db start</pre>
Start Icinga and Idoutils on system startup. 
 
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# chkconfig icinga on
# systemctl enable httpd.service
# systemctl enable mariadb.service</pre>
Access Web Interface: 
 
Now access Icinga web interface using the following URL. You'll be prompted for the username (icingaadmin) and password you specified earlier. 
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