Nagios Virtual Machine

Uses vagrant to create a CentOS 6.5 VM and install with Nagios 3.51 core

Requirements

• Vagrant (http://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html)
• Virtualbox (https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads)

Instructions

Startup

1. Start the virtual machine $ vagrant up
2. Wait until the virtual machines starts and completes provisioning
3. Open your web browser to http://localhost:8080/nagios
4. Credentials nagiosadmin:nagios123.
5. To login onto the host: $ vagrant ssh

Login as the Nagios User

The nagios unix user password is nagios. NOTE: Vagrant performs the port forwarding from 2222 to 22.

1. ssh -l nagios -p 2222 localhost

Suspend

Saves the state of the VM on disk so it can be resumed later

1. vagrant suspend

Resume

Restarts VM from its preserved state.

1. vagrant resume

Shutdown

Completely destroys the VM and it state, but it also frees up all the disk usage associated with the VM instance.

1. Stop and destroy the virtual machine $ vagrant destroy