Thruk is a web-based Nagios and Icinga monitoring system that provides a clean and modern interface for managing your monitoring environment. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the steps to install Thruk on Kali Linux latest.
Before installing Thruk, it is important to make sure that your Kali Linux system is up to date. Open a terminal and execute the following commands:
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
Thruk requires several packages to be installed on the system before it can be installed. Execute the following command in the terminal:
sudo apt-get install apache2 libcgi-pm-perl libapache2-mod-perl2 libjson-xs-perl \
libgd-gd2-perl libdbi-perl libdbd-mysql-perl libdbd-pg-perl librrds-perl
Once the dependencies are installed, we can proceed to install Thruk. Follow these steps:
wget -O - http://mirror.thruk.org/pkg/mirror.thruk.org.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb http://mirror.thruk.org/pkg/deb/stable/ /" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/thruk.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install thruk
Select apache2 and press enter.
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To access Thruk, open a web browser and navigate to http://localhost/thruk/.
You will be prompted to enter the admin credentials you created during the installation process. Once you have entered the credentials, click the Login button.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Thruk on Kali Linux. Now you can use it to manage your monitoring environment with ease.
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