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Purpose
This document is intended to outline the steps required to manually install Nagios XI on a
Linux machine. Want installation help? We will do it for free.
Target Audience
This document is intended for use by Nagios Administrators who want to manually install Nagios XI on a Linux
machine.
Platform Support
Nagios Enterprises provide support for installing Nagios XI on the following Linux Distributions (only 64-bit
supported):
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
◦ 7.x
◦ 8.x
◦ RHEL requires the Optional software channel to be enabled, further details are located here:
◦ Enabling RHEL Optional Software Channel
• CentOS
◦ 7.x
◦ 8.x
• Oracle Linux
◦ Oracle Linux 7.x
◦ Oracle Linux 8.x
◦ Oracle Linux 7 requires the Optional repository to be enabled, further details are located here:
◦ Enabling Oracle Linux Optional Repository
• Debian
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◦ 9.x
◦ 10.x
• Ubuntu
◦ All active Long Term Support (LTS), these are all the even numbered versions (16, 18, 20)
If you discover bugs or have fixes for installing Nagios XI on other platforms, please let us know. We will do
our best to incorporate your improvements to expand support for additional platforms in future XI releases,
which will make future installation processes smoother for you and your clients.
Installation Prerequisites
Important: Nagios Enterprises highly recommends and will only support installing Nagios XI on a newly
installed, "clean" system (a bare minimal install with nothing else installed or configured).
Attempting to install Nagios XI on a pre-existing system with other applications already installed can cause
the Nagios XI installation process to fail, critical system components and settings (e.g. database servers) to
be modified in a way that negatively affects other applications, and previously installed applications to be
automatically upgraded or removed. While installing XI on a system with other applications is possible, it is
not recommended due to the possible interactions and complexity of multiple components that are required
for Nagios XI to function. If you choose to ignore these warnings, you do so at your own risk.
Other Nagios products (Network Analyzer, Log Server and Fusion) should not co-exist on the same server.
Nagios XI hardware requirements can be found in the following documentation:
Nagios XI Hardware Requirements
Internet access is required for installation and upgrades!
Terminal Access
These instructions require you to establish a terminal session to the server you plan to install Nagios XI on.
You will need to login to your server as the root user to perform the installation (or a user with root privileges).
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Install Nagios XI
There are two methods for installing Nagios XI, they both perform a full installation.
Quick
Execute the following command in your terminal session:
curl https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagiosxi/install.sh | sh
That one command will download and install Nagios XI. Please proceed to the Finalize Installation section.
Manual Download
Alternatively, you can install Nagios XI by issuing the following commands in your terminal session:
cd /tmp
wget https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagiosxi/xi-latest.tar.gz
tar xzf xi-latest.tar.gz
cd nagiosxi
./fullinstall
Note: If you need to install a specific version of Nagios XI, please visit the following page of Nagios XI
versions to obtain the URL, use that in the wget command above:
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagiosxi/versions.php
Please proceed to the Finalize Installation section.
RPM Installation
See Nagios Repositories for instructions on how to install Nagios XI via online RPMs.
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Please proceed to the Finalize Installation section.
Finalize Installation
Once the installation has completed you should see a message like the following:
Nagios XI Installation Complete!
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You can access the Nagios XI web interface by visiting:
http://<server_address>/nagiosxi
Navigate to the user interface by using the URL provided in your terminal session.
You will be presented with the Nagios XI
Installation screen just like this:
You will be first prompted to define the
General System Settings.
Once you've made your desired selections
choose your License Settings.
• Trial – See Starting a Nagios XI Trial
for more information.
• Licensed – Enter your License Key,
Client ID, and Enterprise Key.
• Free – Limited to 7 nodes and 100
host/service checks.
Click Next to proceed.
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The next page provides you with
options for the Admin Account.
The most important setting you
need to change here is the
Administrator Password (you don't
need to use the one that is
randomly generated).
Click Finish Install to save these
settings.
The page will display a spinning
logo while it applies your settings to
Nagios XI.
The Installation Complete screen
will be shown with the username
and password required to login to
Nagios XI.
Click the Login to Nagios XI button to begin.
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The Login Screen will appear,
provide your credentials and then
click the Login button.
You will need to accept the
License Agreement to proceed.
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You will be logged into Nagios XI and be placed
at the home screen.
Finishing Up
This completes the documentation on how to manually install Nagios XI on a Linux machine.
Nagios has a variety of resources to help get you up and running. See below.
Schedule a Quickstart: https://www.nagios.com/services/quickstart/nagios-xi/
Contact Sales: sales@nagios.com
Nagios Support Forums: https://support.nagios.com/forum
The Nagios Support Knowledgebase: https://support.nagios.com/kb
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