Hi Folks,

I describe in this part my custom installation of PNP4Nagios for distributed monitoring. Here my plateform, I suppose you can install nagios, thruk, and livestatus broker (unix/tcp socket mode). I have 3 servers :

• server1 : nagios, thruk, livestatus
• server2 :  nagios, livestatus
• server3 :  nagios, livestatus

How it work ?

• PNP4nagios will be installed on server1
• NCPD will be running on on server1
• NFS server will be installed on server1
• Npcdmod broker (npcdmod.o) will be used by server1, server2, server3
• My server1, server2, server3 are Centos 6

Why ? Because Thruk provides a interesting feature, you can build report SLA and integrate PNP graph. Thruk can retrieve graphs of several PNP4Nagios. But you must to define different “action_url” on the host/service definition. Not very easy when you use template. That is why I am going to install a single PNP.

Server1 :

Install pnp4nagios and NFS daemon :

# yum install pnp4nagios nfs

Enabled npcd daemon a boot and restart Apache

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# chkconfig npcd on
# /etc/init.d/httpd reload

Install NFS packages

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# yum install nfs-utils nfs-utils-lib

Configuration NFS /etc/exports

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/var/spool/pnp4nagios/ server2(rw,sync)
/var/spool/pnp4nagios/ server3(rw,sync)

Restart NFS daemon

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# /etc/init.d/nfs restart

To preserve permission on /var/spool/pnp4nagios, nagios user must have the same id on server1, server2, server3.

server1 # id nagios
uid=100(nagios) gid=101(nagios) groups=101(nagios)
server2 # id nagios
uid=100(nagios) gid=101(nagios) groups=101(nagios)
server3 # id nagios
uid=100(nagios) gid=101(nagios) groups=101(nagios)

Configuration NPCD file : /etc/pnp4nagios/npcd.cfg

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perfdata_spool_filename = perfdata-server1
log_level = 1

Restart NPCD daemon

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# /etc/init.d/npcd restart

Configuration Thruk with PNP4nagios. Create .thruk file in Apache home directory (/var/www/.thruk)

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touch /var/www/.thruk
chown apache:apache /var/www/.thruk
vi /var/www/.thruk

Paste the content :

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export PNP_ETC="/etc/pnp4nagios"
export PNP_INDEX="/usr/share/nagios/html/pnp4nagios/index.php"

Restart thruk

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# /etc/init.d/thruk restart

Add broker npcdmod in /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg file

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broker_module=/usr/lib/nagios/npcdmod.o config_file=/etc/pnp4nagios/npcd.cfg

Restart Nagios

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# /etc/init.d/nagios restart

Server2

To use npcdmod.o module, we need install pnp4nagios

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# yum install pnp4nagios

Modify the /etc/pnp4nagios/npcd.cfg file in order to identify perfdata on server2

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perfdata_spool_filename = perfdata-server2

Edit /etc/fstab file to mount NFS share

server1:/var/spool/pnp4nagios    /var/spool/pnp4nagios   nfs    defaults  0 0

Mount /var/spool/pnp4nagios

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# mount /var/spool/pnp4nagios

Edit file /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg and add the npcdmod broker

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broker_module=/usr/lib/nagios/npcdmod.o config_file=/etc/pnp4nagios/npcd.cfg

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# /etc/init.d/nagios restart

Server3

To use npcdmod.o module, we need install pnp4nagios

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# yum install pnp4nagios

Modify the /etc/pnp4nagios/npcd.cfg file in order to identify perfdata on server3

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perfdata_spool_filename = perfdata-server3

Edit /etc/fstab file to mount NFS share

server1:/var/spool/pnp4nagios    /var/spool/pnp4nagios   nfs    defaults  0 0

Mount /var/spool/pnp4nagios

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# mount /var/spool/pnp4nagios

Edit file /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg and add the npcdmod broker

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broker_module=/usr/lib/nagios/npcdmod.o config_file=/etc/pnp4nagios/npcd.cfg

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# /etc/init.d/nagios restart

How NCP daemon works ?

1. Nagios execute plugin
2. Npcdmod Store perfdata into Spool files
3. On server1 npcdmod move Spool file to Spool Directory
4. On server2 or server3 npcdmod move Spool file to NFS Share “Spool Directory”
5. NPCD scan Spool directory
6. Execute perfdata command
7. Update RRD Database
8. Write XML Meta data

Server1

Thruk local config : /etc/thruk/thruk_local.conf

<Component Thruk::Backend>
    <peer>
        name    = server1
        type    = livestatus
        <options>
            peer          = /var/log/nagios/rw/live
            resource_file = /etc/nagios/resource.cfg
        </options>
    </peer>
    <peer>
        name    = server2
        type    = livestatus
        <options>
            peer          = server2:6557
        </options>
    </peer>
    <peer>
        name    = server3
        type    = livestatus
        <options>
            peer = server3:6557
        </options>
    </peer>
</Component>

Thruk interface :  http://server1/thruk/

If you have no graph into pnp4nagios interface, change the log_level in /etc/pnp4nagios/npcd.cfg

log_level=-1

Restart the daemon

/etc/init.d/npcd restart

You see log in /var/log/pnp4nagios/npcd.log file

[02-18-2014 14:03:42] NPCD: No more files to process... waiting for 15 seconds
[02-18-2014 14:03:57] NPCD: Processing file 'perfdata-server2.1392728630'
[02-18-2014 14:03:57] NPCD: Processing file 'perfdata-server3.1392728625'
[02-18-2014 14:03:57] NPCD: No more files to process... waiting for 15 seconds
[02-18-2014 14:04:12] NPCD: Processing file 'perfdata-server2.1392728645'
[02-18-2014 14:04:12] NPCD: Processing file 'perfdata-server3.1392728640'
[02-18-2014 14:04:12] NPCD: No more files to process... waiting for 15 seconds
[02-18-2014 14:04:27] NPCD: Processing file 'perfdata-server2.1392728660'
[02-18-2014 14:04:27] NPCD: Processing file 'perfdata-server3.1392728655'
[02-18-2014 14:04:27] NPCD: No more files to process... waiting for 15 second