On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 17:05 -0700, Jason Ross wrote:
I tried the rpms but I had already used 3.0 and so it was pretty confusing. I followed the quickstart guide for fedora on the nagios site with only minor changes.
Nagios is up and running, i have it checking linux servers, windows servers, firewalls and a web sensor. I even have it emailing me through my postfix box.
I just have issues with lockups, in truth it could be some thing other than Nagios however, all my other servers run CentOS 4.5 and this one is the only one with the issue, and i have tried it on 2 separate servers, so i assume it is nagios.
Is there a methodology for properly diagnosing issue with nagios and thus eliminating it as the cause??
Jim Perrin wrote:
On Nov 14, 2007 5:09 PM, Jason Ross jross@medvoice.com wrote:
No dice. The entire /var dir is less than 120 megs, and there are no large logs.
Okay, lets back up a bit here, because nagios is definitely not the easiest of applications. Dag/RPMForge maintain rpm packages for nagios, which eliminate 99% of the setup headache. Those packages handle permissions, user creation, etc. Mostly all you have to do is configure the monitoring portion of it, and edit /etc/httpd/conf.d/nagios.conf to allow access as you see fit.
There's a wiki how-to on wiki.centos.org at http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Nagios and while it references older versions of nagios, the instructions still hold true for the 2.x tree.
I have been running with these packages for 3 years- no worries. On Centos since 3.x with nagios 2.x
Works great!
Note that the 3.x tree is still in beta, and has several issues which may keep new users from getting it working properly.
Ditto!