Ansible Playbook for setting up the Nagios monitoring system and clients on CentOS/RHEL.

• Automated deployment of Nagios on CentOS or RHEL
  • Generates service checks, and monitored hosts from Ansible inventory
  • Generates comprehensive checks for the Nagios server
  • Generates comprehensive checks for all hosts/services via NRPE
  • Generates most of the other configs based on jinja2 templates
  • Wraps Nagios in SSL via Apache
  • Sets up proper firewall rules (firewalld or iptables-services)
  • This is also available via Ansible Galaxy

• RHEL7 or CentOS7+ for Nagios server.
• If you require SuperMicro server monitoring via IPMI (optional) then do the following
  • Installperl-IPC-Run and perl-IO-Tty RPMs for RHEL7.
    • I've placed them here if you can't find them, CentOS7 has them however.
  • Modify install/group_vars/all.yml to include supermicro_enable_checks: true

• Sets the nagiosadmin password to changeme, you'll want to change this.
• Creates a read-only user, set nagios_create_guest_user: false to disable this in install/group_vars/all.yml
• Implementation is very simple, with the following resource/service checks generated:
  • Generic out-of-band interfaces (ping, ssh, http)
  • Generic Linux servers (ping, ssh, load, users, procs, uptime, disk space, swap, zombie procs)
  • ELK servers (same as servers plus elasticsearch and Kibana)
  • Elasticsearch (same as servers plus TCP/9200 for elasticsearch)
  • Webservers (same as servers plus 80/TCP for webserver)
  • DNS Servers (same as servers plus UDP/53 for DNS)
  • Jenkins CI (same as servers plus TCP/8080 for Jenkins and optional nginx reverse proxy with auth)
  • Network switches (ping, ssh)
  • Dell iDRAC server checks via @dangmocrang check_idrac
    • You can select which checks you want in install/group_vars/all.yml
      • CPU, DISK, VDISK, PS, POWER, TEMP, MEM, FAN
  • SuperMicro server checks via the IPMI interface.
    • CPU, DISK, PS, TEMP, MEM: or anything supported via freeipmi sensors.
• contacts.cfg notification settings are in install/group_vars/all.yml and templated for easy modification.
• You can turn off creation/management of firewall rules via install/group_vars/all.yml
• Adding new hosts to inventory file will just regenerate the Nagios configs

• Clone repo and setup your Ansible inventory (hosts) file

git clone https://github.com/sadsfae/ansible-nagios
cd ansible-nagios
sed -i 's/host-01/yournagioshost/' hosts

• Add any hosts for checks in the hosts inventory
• The same host can only belong to one host inventory category
• Note that you need to add ansible_host entries only for IP addresses for idrac, switches, out-of-band interfaces and anything that typically doesn't support Python and Ansible fact discovery.
• Anything not an idrac, switch or oobserver should use the FQDN (or an /etc/hosts entry) for the inventory hostname or you may see this error:
  • AnsibleUndefinedVariable: 'dict object' has no attribute 'ansible_default_ipv4'}

[webservers]
webserver01

[switches]
switch01 ansible_host=192.168.0.100
switch02 ansible_host=192.168.0.102

[oobservers]
webserver01-ilo ansible_host=192.168.0.105

[servers]
server01

[jenkins]
jenkins01

[dns]

[idrac]
database01-idrac ansible_host=192.168.0.106

[supermicro-6048r]
web01-supermicro-ipmi ansible_host=192.168.0.108

[supermicro-6018r]

[supermicro-1028r]

• Run the playbook

ansible-playbook -i hosts install/nagios.yml

• Navigate to the server at https://yourhost/nagios
• Default login is nagiosadmin / changeme unless you changed it in install/group_vars/all.yml

• If you're using a non-root Ansible user you will want to edit install/group_vars/all.yml setting, e.g. AWS EC2:

ansible_system_user: ec2-user

• SELinux doesn't always play well with Nagios, or the policies may be out of date as shipped with CentOS/RHEL.

avc: denied { create } for pid=8800 comm="nagios" name="nagios.qh

• If you see this (or nagios doesn't start) you'll need to create an SELinux policy module.

# cat /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -M mynagios
# semodule -i mynagios.pp

Now restart Nagios and Apache and you should be good to go.

systemctl restart nagios
systemctl restart httpd

If all else fails set SELinux to permissive until it's running then run the above command again.

setenforce 1

• If you have errors on RHEL7 you may need a few Perl packages if you opted to include SuperMicro monitoring via:

supermicro_enable_checks: true

• You can view a video of the Ansible deployment here:

• The iDRAC health checks are all optional, you can pick which ones you want to monitor.

• The iDRAC health check will provide exhaustive health information and alert upon it.

.
├── hosts
├── install
│   ├── group_vars
│   │   └── all.yml
│   ├── nagios.yml
│   └── roles
│       ├── firewall
│       │   └── tasks
│       │       └── main.yml
│       ├── firewall_client
│       │   └── tasks
│       │       └── main.yml
│       ├── instructions
│       │   └── tasks
│       │       └── main.yml
│       ├── nagios
│       │   ├── files
│       │   │   ├── check_ipmi_sensor
│       │   │   ├── idrac_2.2rc4
│       │   │   ├── idrac-smiv2.mib
│       │   │   ├── nagios.cfg
│       │   │   └── nagios.conf
│       │   ├── handlers
│       │   │   └── main.yml
│       │   ├── tasks
│       │   │   └── main.yml
│       │   └── templates
│       │       ├── cgi.cfg.j2
│       │       ├── commands.cfg.j2
│       │       ├── contacts.cfg.j2
│       │       ├── dns.cfg.j2
│       │       ├── elasticsearch.cfg.j2
│       │       ├── elkservers.cfg.j2
│       │       ├── idrac.cfg.j2
│       │       ├── ipmi.cfg.j2
│       │       ├── jenkins.cfg.j2
│       │       ├── localhost.cfg.j2
│       │       ├── oobservers.cfg.j2
│       │       ├── servers.cfg.j2
│       │       ├── services.cfg.j2
│       │       ├── supermicro1028.cfg.j2
│       │       ├── supermicro-1028r.cfg.j2
│       │       ├── supermicro-6018r.cfg.j2
│       │       ├── supermicro-6048r.cfg.j2
│       │       ├── switches.cfg.j2
│       │       └── webservers.cfg.j2
│       └── nagios-client
│           ├── handlers
│           │   └── main.yml
│           ├── tasks
│           │   └── main.yml
│           └── templates
│               └── nrpe.cfg.j2
└── meta
    └── main.yml

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