[CentOS] yum install nagios, adding dag repository

[karl at klxsystems.net]

yeah, I actually had bookmarked your Howto when it came out on the list,
it was perfect timing since last week we had given the go-ahead to do the
full change-over to 64-bit centos, migrating away from Whitebox 32-bit. 
our nagios setup was one of the keys, and the existence of the howto
assured we'd be OK.

still incorporating alot of the tips in it to future endeavours...

-karlski


> karl at klxsystems.net wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm running an Opteron 64 bit server, and in an effort to re-join it to
>> my
>> nagios monitoring, I have tried the install nagios via Yum.
>>
>> When I type:
>>
>> yum install nagios, or nagios-nrpe, or nagios-plugins, I get:
>>
>> "Nothing to do". as output.
>>
>> In wanting to add the DAG repository to my machine, the documentation
>> i've
>> come across seems vague.
>>
>> Can someone advise me on either of these issues?
>>
>> I have come across the following HOWTO, but it kind of jumps around a
>> bit,
>> and the if/else logic is too hard to decipher.
>>
>> http://www.maxsworld.org/?page_id=115
>>
>> Any help is most appreciated...
>
> I apologize for my how-to not being very detailed about setting up Dag's
> repo, but it was intentionally geared toward Nagios, not Dag. I simply
> create a dag.repo file which looks like:
>
> [dag]
> name=Dag RPM Repository For Red Hat Enterprise Linux
> baseurl=http://dag.atrpms.net/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag/
>          http://dag.freshrpms.net/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag/
>
> http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/freshrpms/pub/dag/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag
>          http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag
> enabled=0
> gpgcheck=1
>
> I don't believe this is the preferred way to load Dag's packages,
> however, thus the reason I mention to refer to the documentation for Dag
> in the how-to.
>
> I believe Dag's how-to for setting up access to his repo is to use
> apt-get. So you install things this way, then substitute the "apt-get"
> command for yum.
>
> Max
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> CentOS mailing list
> CentOS at centos.org
> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
>