

I’ll start this post by explaining to you what I found to get Nagios quickly on the Raspberry Pi, and why they are bad options for you. What is the best way to get Nagios on Pi? In this post I’ll explain how to install Nagios on your Raspberry Pi to check your network status.īut I’ll start by listing all the ways to get Nagios I found on Internet and to show you why most of them are useless or unsuitable. Nagios is like a failure detector, it will check one thing regularly (like every 5 minutes) and alert you when this check doesn’t work as expected.

Yes, Nagios from source is the best way to monitor your network on Raspberry Pi. Then Nagios Core and its plugins can be installed from source, by downloading the latest version on the official website.Īfter that, the configuration can start to add all the hosts and services to monitor. Nagios requires a few prerequisites: Raspberry Pi OS, Apache and PHP. I’ll explain here what I found and how to do the same step by step.

I saw many how-to guides about NEMS, Nagios3 but nothing perfect with the latest Nagios version. Today I wanted to use my Raspberry Pi to monitor my network with Nagios.īut I was lost trying to find out what was the best option to do this.
