Creating a Nagios 3.5 on RHEL 5.8 service offering
This topic describes the tasks that you must perform in BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management to create the service offering that the end user can then use to provision the application infrastructure (for example, an OS and an application package). It includes the following topics:
To create the service and the service offering
In the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management Administrator console, you must add a service and a service offering.
For Nagios service blueprint, create a service and service offering based on the available deployment model. The Nagios Content-Pack supports single-tier service deployment model. In the single tier deployment model, Nagios is installed on one instance of a server.
To create a service
To create a service offering
To make the provisioning request
- Access Workspaces > Service Instances to display the Service Instances workspace, and click New Service Request.
- In the New Service Request dialog box, click the server provisioning service you want to display the Submit Request dialog box.
- Enter the data in the required fields to complete the request for an instance of the service request. You can click Next to review the details.
- Click Submit. The request is added to the Pending Activity list in the Service Instances window.
The request status is displayed in the Pending Activity list of the Service Instances window. You can double-click on the service request to see its detailed information.
For more detailed procedures, see Requesting cloud services.
To validate the provisioned components
After provisioning the blueprint, you can validate the Nagios components setup in your environment.
Component name | How to verify | Results |
|---|---|---|
To verify Nagios installation | To verify Nagios installation, run the following command: ps -ef | grep nagios | This command displays following results: avahi 3721 1 0 20:08 ? 00:00:00 avahi-daemon: running [rhel58-nagios.local] nagios 30797 1 0 20:47 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg |
To access Nagios | To access Nagios, visit the following URL: http://Hostname/nagios/ Note: Edit the URL as per your environment.
| Nagios Webpage will display. |
Where to go next
After you have created the service offering, the cloud end user can request a service offering from the My Cloud Services console. To view a list of tasks that the cloud end user can perform to manage your cloud services, see Managing cloud services.