Fedora 12 + Nagios + PNP4Nagios

Setting up pnp4nagios on Fedora is pretty straightforward.

1. Install pnp4 nagios

yum install pnp4nagios

2. Setup /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg

process_performance_data=1
host_perfdata_command=process-host-perfdata
service_perfdata_command=process-service-perfdata

3. Setup /etc/nagios/objects/commands.cfg to send performance data to pnp4nagios.

define command{
        command_name    process-host-perfdata
        command_line    /usr/bin/perl /usr/libexec/pnp4nagios/process_perfdata.pl -d HOSTPERFDATA
        }

define command{
        command_name    process-service-perfdata
        command_line    /usr/bin/perl /usr/libexec/pnp4nagios/process_perfdata.pl
        }

4. Setup: /etc/nagios/objects/yourserver.cfg

define host {
   name       host-pnp
   action_url /nagios/pnp4nagios/index.php?host=$HOSTNAME$&srv=_HOST_
   register   0
}

define service {
   name       srv-pnp
   action_url /nagios/pnp4nagios/index.php?host=$HOSTNAME$&srv=$SERVICEDESC$
   register   0
}

# a service using pnp
define service {
        use generic-service,srv-pnp
        hostgroup_name generic-hosts
        service_description Memory
        check_command check_nrpe!check_mem
}

5. Restart nagios


Official docs here.