Ansible Nagios

Ansible role to install Nagios from source.

Features

• Installs and configures Nagios 4 (not currently available through a PPA).
• Installs the Pagerduty integration
• Support for sending notifications via SES
• Installs NRPE, for performing remote checks.
• Installs a recent build of nagios-plugins.

Installation

Ansible Nagios has some dependencies on other roles, checkout librarian-ansible a great tool for managing Ansible dependencies.

Configuration

To get things up and running on an Ubuntu machine, here are the variables you will need to set:

nagios_user: nagiosadmin
nagios_password: nagiosadmin
nagios_host: nagios.example.com
nagios_pagerduty_key: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
nagios_admin_email: [email protected]
nagios_amdin_name: 'Nagios Admin'

nagios_aws_access_key_id: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
nagios_aws_access_key_secret: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
nagios_ses_region: email.us-east-1.amazonaws.com

nagios_enable_pagerduty_notifications: true
nagios_enable_ses_notifications: true

legacy: false # set to true, for older builds of Ubuntu like Precise.

• See /vars/main.yml for more configuration options.

How it Works?

• Create a playbook that references the nagios role.
• Set the appropriate variables.
• Run this role on a clean server.
• You will now be able to access nagios on the host at https://your-host/nagios.

Ansible-Nagios-Config

This Ansible role is designed to be used along with Ansible-Nagios-Config. Use this role to set up Nagios' configuration.

Compatibility

This role has been tested on the following Linux distributions:

Ubuntu:

• Precise.
• Trusty.

Please open an issue if you confirm the role works on other distributions.