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.

Note that the 3.x tree is still in beta, and has several issues which
may keep new users from getting it working properly.