This is an ansbile role to install a Nagios controller node. See the nagios-config and nagios-client roles for configure the controller and clients.

Supported/Tested:

• Nagios 4.1.1 installed from source
• Ubuntu 14.04 as deployment node

The following variables are relevant when including this role. NOTE: prefix the name of this role to the variable: (address should be nagios_server_address)

1. add the `nagios_server` role

$ git submodule add https://github.com/futuresystems/ansible-role-nagios-server roles/nagios_server

1. use a playbook similar to the following (you may need to update the cache in another role or playbook):

---

- hosts: nagios-01

  pre_tasks:
    - name: update apt cache
      apt:
        update_cache: yes

  roles:

    - role: nagios_server

      nagios_server_web_admin_password: "{{ secret.nagios.web_admin_password }}"
      nagios_server_address: "{{ global.iface.internal.ipv4.address }}"