Nagios Software Build

Background Information

Nagios  is powerful , enterprise-class host, service, application, and unique network monitoring program.  Designed to be fast, flexible, and stable. This tool is compatible with a variety of commonly used platforms.  The content offers a brief view of the outcome from this software build. The following link will corroborate the information previously mentioned. http://sourceforge.net/projects/nagios/

Here is a brief view of the nagios directory after unpacking the package

[SBR600@localhost nagios-3.2.2]$ ls

base          contrib         LICENSE        pkginfo.in     t-tap

cgi           daemon-init.in  Makefile.in    README         update-version

Changelog     functions       make-tarball   sample-config  UPGRADING

common        html            mkpackage      subst.in       xdata

config.guess  include         module         t

config.sub    INSTALLING      nagios.spec    tap

configure     install-sh      OutputTrap.pm  THANKS

configure.in  LEGAL           p1.pl          tools

Screen capture of build completion

Additional dependencies were needed, and installed using the yum install utility, according to specifications set out in the instruction file. The build was pretty straight forward and took approximately 35 minutes to complete.