How to install Adagios on macOS

Adagios is a web-based Nagios configuration interface designed to make managing Nagios and Nagios-based monitoring system easy and efficient. In this tutorial, we will walk through the steps to install Adagios on macOS.

Prerequisites

• A macOS machine with administrative access.
• Python 2.7 installed on the system.
• Apache HTTP server installed and configured on the system.
• Nagios installed and configured on the system.

Installation

Step 1: Install dependencies

Before installing Adagios, we need to install some dependencies required by Adagios. Open Terminal and execute the following command to install the required dependencies:

sudo pip install -r http://adagios.org/docs/requirements.txt

Step 2: Download Adagios

Next, we need to download the Adagios package. You can download the Adagios package by running the following command on Terminal:

cd /tmp && curl -LOk https://github.com/opinkerfi/adagios/archive/master.zip

Step 3: Install Adagios

To install Adagios, we need to perform the following steps:

1. Extract the downloaded Adagios package using the following command:

   unzip -q /tmp/master.zip -d /tmp/
   

2. CD into the extracted Adagios package directory:

   cd /tmp/adagios-master/
   

3. Install Adagios using the following command:

   sudo python setup.py install
   

Step 4: Configure Adagios

Now we need to configure Adagios. To do that, we need to perform the following steps:

1. Go to the document root directory of Apache HTTP server by executing the following command:

   cd /Library/WebServer/Documents/
   

2. Create a new directory for Adagios by running the following command:

   sudo mkdir adagios
   

3. Open the Adagios configuration file using the following command:

   sudo nano /usr/local/etc/adagios/adagios.conf
   

4. Modify the following parameters in the configuration file based on your environment:

   base_url = /adagios/
   nagios_url = http://localhost/nagios/
   nagios_config = /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
   

   Note that the nagios_url parameter should point to your Nagios configuration URL.

5. Save and close the configuration file by pressing Control + X, then Y, then Enter.

Step 5: Restart Apache

After configuring Adagios, we need to restart the Apache HTTP server to apply the changes. To restart Apache, execute the following command on Terminal:

sudo apachectl restart

Step 6: Access Adagios

Now you should be able to access Adagios by visiting the following URL:

http://localhost/adagios/

You should see the Adagios login page. Use your Nagios credentials to login to Adagios.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Adagios on macOS.

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