azure-quickstart-templates/nagios-on-ubuntu

Install Nagios Core on Ubuntu Virtual Machines using Custom Script Linux Extension

This template deploys Nagios Core, a host/service/network monitoring solution released under the GNU General Public License. This template also provisions a storage account, virtual network, public IP addresses and network interfaces required by the installation.

Visit the Nagios homepage at http://www.nagios.org for documentation, new releases, bug reports, information on discussion forums, and more.

The template requires the following parameters:

Name	Description
storageAccountName	Unique DNS Name for the storage account where the virtual machine's disks will be placed
adminUsername	Admin user name for the virtual machine
adminPassword	Admin password for the virtual machine
region	Region name where the corresponding Azure artifacts will be created
virtualNetworkName	Name of virtual network
subnetName	Name of the virtual network subnet
addressPrefix	The IP address mask used by the virtual network
subnetPrefix	The subnet mask used by the virtual network subnet
domainName	Domain name of the publicly accessible Apache web server hosting Nagios
tshirtSize	T-shirt size of the Nagios deployment

Topology

The Nagios deployment topology is comprised of a single VM instance that can be customized and scaled up using the tshirtSize parameter. The following table outlines the VM characteristics for each supported t-shirt size:

T-Shirt Size	VM Size	CPU Cores	Memory
Small	Standard_A1	1	1.75 GB
Medium	Standard_D1	1	3.5 GB
Large	Standard_D2	2	7 GB
XLarge	Standard_D3	4	14 GB
XXLarge	Standard_D3	8	28 GB

##Known Issues and Limitations

• A single instance installation Nagios Core is performed by the template
• This template does not install any monitoring targets