sbotools2

Maintenance fork of the original sbotools version 2
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      1 Nagios is a powerful monitoring system that enables organizations to
      2 identify and resolve IT infrastructure problems before they affect critical
      3 business processes.
      4 
      5 Nagios requires a "nagios" user and group; create these before running the
      6 SlackBuild script. Examples:
      7 
      8 	# groupadd -g 213 nagios
      9 	# useradd -u 213 -d /dev/null -s /bin/false -g nagios nagios
     10 
     11 For some scripts to work, it is necessary to include the 'apache' user in
     12 the nagios group.
     13 
     14 For some functions (most notably the "map" function), you need to have X
     15 installed on your server. You do not have to start X though, nagios just
     16 needs some of the libraries and fonts.
     17 
     18 This SlackBuild installs the basic nagios system in /var/www/htdocs/
     19 To change the location, set the DOCROOT variable:
     20 	# DOCROOT=/your/docroot/dir ./nagios.SlackBuild
     21 
     22 For a useful setup, you will want to have nagios-plugins installed.
     23 
     24 To configure nagios, some knowledge of httpd is required.  Check the
     25 included 'README.SLACKWARE' file for some basic setup instructions. The
     26 include file for httpd is installed as /etc/httpd/extra/nagios.conf
     27 
     28 Lots of information is available in the included documentation, and even
     29 more can be found on the nagios site and wiki <http://wiki.nagios.org>.