i. Create Account Information
Become the root user. You may have to use sudo -s on Ubuntu and other distros.
su -l
Create a new nagios user account and give it a password.
/usr/sbin/useradd nagios
passwd nagios
ii. Install the Nagios Plugins
Create a directory for storing the downloads.
mkdir ~/downloads
cd ~/downloads
Become the root user. You may have to use sudo -s on Ubuntu and other distros.
su -l
Create a new nagios user account and give it a password.
/usr/sbin/useradd nagios
passwd nagios
ii. Install the Nagios Plugins
Create a directory for storing the downloads.
mkdir ~/downloads
cd ~/downloads