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MKLivestatus it's an Event Broker Module that provides an Unix socket to which NagVis (and every similar application) can link to receive real time Nagios data. MKLivestatus requires the php module php-net-socket (Debian) / php5-sockets (SUSE).

You can also install a Nagios alternative front-end (Check MK) completely based on Nagios config files. Check MK requires the Apache Python module, python_module (SUSE).

If you install Check MK, add the following entry in /etc/apache2/sysconfig.d/loadmodule.conf:

LoadModule python_module                  /usr/lib64/apache2/mod_python.so

Add the entry entry python in /etc/sysconfig/apache2 for the keyword APACHE_MODULES:

APACHE_MODULES=".... python"

Installing Check MK as well, it's possible to use the installer to facilitate the process:

1. download the tarball in /download (for example)
2. go to download folder: cd /download
3. extract the content: tar xzf check_mk-version.tar.gz
4. go to the extracted files directory: cd check_mk-version
5. run the script: ./setup.sh
6. answer the questions

The installer modifies the Nagios configuration file (/usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg) by adding the statement to load the broker in Nagios:

# Load Livestatus Module
broker_module=/usr/lib/check_mk/livestatus.o /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/live
event_broker_options=-1

# added by setup.sh of check_mk 
cfg_dir=/usr/local/nagios/etc/check_mk.d

1. download the tarball in /download (for example)
2. goto in download folder: cd /download
3. extract the content: tar xzf nagvis-versione.tar.gz
4. go to the extracted files directory: cd nagvis-versione
5. run the script: ./install.sh