Usage Instructions: For Linux: Connect to your Linux instance via port no. 22 using SSH. Please refer this article: https://docs.thinkwithwp.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/AccessingInstancesLinux.html  Sign-in credentials: Username: ubuntu

1. This software does not store any sensitive customer information.

2. This software does not require any type of data encryption configuration.

3. Programmatic system credentials and cryptographic keys are not required for this product.

4. Run the following command to check the status of the nagios-server: sudo systemctl start nagios.service

5. Create nagiosadmin User Account:

• You'll need to create an Apache user account to be able to log into Nagios. The following command will create a user account called nagiosadmin and you will be prompted to provide a password for the account.

  sudo htpasswd -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users nagiosadmin

• When adding additional users in the future, you need to remove -c from the above command otherwise it will replace the existing nagiosadmin user (and any other users you may have added).

6. Nagios is now running, to confirm this you need to log into the Nagios Web Interface. You can now access it using the URL http://your-server-ip/nagios . You will be asked to authenticate.
   • Provide your Nagios admin username, password and click on the Sign in button. Once you are log in, you should see the Nagios dashboard
   • Click on the Hosts in the left pane, you should see your local server
   • Click on the localhost. You should see your server related information
   • Click on the Services in the left pane, you should see the status of all running services

Below are the minimum external resources subscriber needs to have to use this product: -An Internet Connection is required in order for this product to function as expected. -We recommend keeping your crucial data in a custom made encrypted EBS in order to save from termination in future.