![]() Unpacking the tar file creates a subdirectory called icinga. ![]() The version I’m building seems to be 1.11.7. ![]() The package description file () can be downloaded from AUR with curl. Note that the building must be done as an ordinary user that just has the right to run the ‘sudo’ command (edit /etc/sudoers if needed with visudo). Then let’s create a build directory where we will download the source code for building. As a prerequisite we will need to install the base-devel group package to get all the needed build tools. After building the tool we can install it with pacman. The icinga tool can be build using the build description (PKGBUILD) available in the Arch User Repository (AUR). # useradd -u 667 -g icinga -G http -d /dev/null -s /bin/false icinga I will add a dedicated user account for running the icinga services, let’s call it icinga. I will basically follow the instructions on the Arch Wiki pages.įirst let’s bring the operating system up-to-date. I will start my experiment by installing the icinga version 1. Only the localhost is present at this stage. The screenshot below shows the status screen after installation. ![]() It has a nice web interface where you can quickly check the status of all the hosts. Icinga is an open source host, service and network monitoring server. Now that I have setup my DHCP and DNS servers with dnsmasq my next target is to add some monitoring software to my arch linux RPi box.
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