Chapter 10: Nagios Integration
210 Console Server & RIM Gateway User Manual
Now you can set the console server to send alerts to the Nagios server
Select Alerts from the Alerts & Logging menu and click Add Alert
In Description enter: Administrator connection
Check Nagios (NSCA)
In Applicable Ports check the serial port that has the router console port attached. In Applicable Hosts check
the IP address/DNS name of the IIS server
Click Connection Alert
Click Apply
Lastly you need to add a User for the client running SDT Connector:
Select Users & Groups from the Serial & Network menu
Click Add User
In Username, enter: sdtnagiosuser, then enter and confirm a Password
In Accessible Hosts click the IP address/DNS name of the IIS server, and in Accessible Ports click the serial
port that has the router console port attached
Click Apply
10.2.3 Set up SDT for Nagios on the central Nagios server
Once the Nagios service, network host and serial port have been configured on the console server you are ready to run
the SDT for Nagios Configuration Wizard on the central Nagios server.
The primary function of the wizard is to connect to each distributed Opengear console server and import configuration into
the central Nagios server. This effectively adds the hosts and service checks you set up on the distributed Opengear
console servers into your central Nagios server.
The wizard is a Linux command line script, and can be downloaded from http://www.opengear.com/download.html Copy
or download the wizard to the central Nagios server and open a command line terminal:
Download the wizard to a location on the central Nagios server
Open a command line terminal and change directory to the location of the wizard
Ensure the wizard script is executable by executing chmod +x sdtnagios-config
Ensure you are running as a user with write permissions to Nagios configuration and web UI files and directories
Execute the wizard script, e.g. ./sdtnagios-config
The wizard will prompt you for the location of some Nagios configuration files (with the option to search), and the IP
addresses and login credentials of the distributed Opengear console servers.
After the distributed configuration has been imported, the wizard will ask if you want to apply the Opengear SDT Nagios
UI theme. This is not required, and simply changes the look and feel of the Nagios UI to that pictured below.