This text will assume you have enough knowledge and domain of Nagios and Linux, your Nagios is already deployed and it is in an external server (different where you have your Tiki deployment)
First you need to copy the check_tiky scripts. You can download it from https://sourceforge.net/p/tikiwiki/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/doc/devtools/check_tiki.php. This script is written in PHP. Put it on a path you will remember, for example /usr/local/bin.
Look for your nagios.cfg file, open it and check what directory is pointing the variable cfg_dir. In this case we are going to use /etc/nagios/conf.d/
Create a file at /etc/nagios/conf.d/check_tiki.cfg with the following content:
define command{ command_name check_tiki_bcc command_line /usr/local/bin/check_tiki.php -u $ARG1$ -c bcc --bccwarn $ARG2$ --bcccrit $ARG3$ } define command{ command_name check_tiki_searchindex command_line /usr/local/bin/check_tiki.php -u $ARG1$ -c searchindex --sirwarn $ARG2$ --sircrit $ARG3$ } define command{ command_name check_tiki_db command_line /usr/local/bin/check_tiki.php -u $ARG1$ -c db }
Edit your server definition. Put the following in the proper directory. In our case, it is in the /etc/nagios/objects/servers/ directory. This is a template, your server definition may be more complex than this.
define host{ use linux-server host_name trunk.notre.website alias trunk } define service{ use local-service ; Name of service template to use host_name trunk.notre.website service_description PING check_command check_ping!300.0,20%!500.0,60% notifications_enabled 0 check_interval 10 } define service{ use local-service ; Name of service template to use host_name trunk.notre.website service_description SSH check_command check_ssh notifications_enabled 0 } define service{ use local-service ; Name of service template to use host_name trunk.notre.website service_description HTTP check_command check_http!-H trunk.notre.website notifications_enabled 1 } define service{ use local-service ; Name of service template to use host_name trunk.notre.website service_description TIKI Op Code Cache check_command check_tiki_bcc!http://trunk.notre.website/tiki-monitor.php!80!95 notifications_enabled 1 } define service{ use local-service ; Name of service template to use host_name trunk.notre.website service_description TIKI Index check_command check_tiki_searchindex!http://trunk.notre.website/tiki-monitor.php!80000!95000 notifications_enabled 1 } define service{ use local-service ; Name of service template to use host_name trunk.notre.website service_description TIKI Op Code Cache check_command check_tiki_db!http://trunk.notre.website/tiki-monitor.php notifications_enabled 1 }
You can check your configuration by executing:
nagios -v /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg
If there is an error, you will be notified. After that, you can restart nagios and new monitoring will start.
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