# Naemon

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Naemon is the new monitoring suite that aims to be faster and more stable, while giving you a clearer view of the state of your network.

## Installation

Install naemonAUR from the AUR.

Copy `/etc/naemon/examples/*` to `/etc/naemon/conf.d/` if you want some example hosts and services to start with.

Install the plugins from monitoring-plugins as well as fping.

## Web interface

Install thrukAUR, then uncomment:

    /etc/naemon/naemon.cfg

    broker_module=/usr/lib/naemon/naemon-livestatus/livestatus.so /var/cache/naemon/live

Thruk is a fast, modern GUI. Try out the demo[dead link 2021-05-17 ⓘ].

### Apache configuration

Add the http user to the naemon group:

    # usermod -aG naemon http

Load modules and include naemon-thruk.conf:

    /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

    LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
    LoadModule fcgid_module modules/mod_fcgid.so

    Include conf/extra/thruk.conf

Set the thruk_user and thruk_group to naemon:

    /etc/thruk/thruk_local.conf

    thruk_user=naemon
    thruk_group=naemon

Restart httpd and navigate to http://localhost/thruk/

The default username and password is thrukadmin, thrukadmin.

## See also

- FAQ
- op5 on Naemon, Nagios and the future
- Andreas Ericsson: The future of Nagios

Category:

- Network monitoring

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