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 at 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! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20071114/f9e6aede/attachment-0005.html>