Big Sister or Nagios

Good day,

Wich it's the best recomendation for monitoring my small network (40 pcs).

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Thanks for your time,
Regards,
Ing. Juan L. Mera

Juan Mera wrote:
> Good day,
>
> Wich it's the best recomendation for monitoring my small network (40 pcs).
>
I use Nagios, having looked at BS, BB, Zabbix, Midas, Hobbit and others.
I like Nagios since it's easy to customize, has basic WAP support, and
can run checks as often as I like. I have some services checked every
10 seconds, and most of the others can only do 1-minute intervals or
greater.

Lee Garner <lee.spam@leegarner.com> wrote in news:wn9Ef.1862$yL4.799@prv-
forum2.provo.novell.com:

> I like Nagios since it's easy to customize

excuse to bother him in something so evident, can you get me some basic
example? How to configure to web interface?

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Thanks for your time,
Regards,
Ing. Juan L. Mera

Lee Garner <lee.spam@leegarner.com> wrote in news:wn9Ef.1862$yL4.799@prv-
forum2.provo.novell.com:

> I like Nagios since it's easy to customize

With SuSE10 it's enough install Nagios Packages with YaST or i need compile
manually?
How to run nagios-nrpe (Nagios Remote Plug-in Executor). I need run only at
the server side?

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Thanks for your time,
Regards,
Ing. Juan L. Mera

Juan Mera wrote:
> With SuSE10 it's enough install Nagios Packages with YaST or i need compile
> manually?
> How to run nagios-nrpe (Nagios Remote Plug-in Executor). I need run only at
> the server side?
>

If it's in yast, that should work. I got mine from Dag's yum repository
(http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/) and rebuilt the RPM after making
some slight UI modifications. I'm running 2.0rc1 and am pretty happy
with it.

As usual, installing from the RPM puts the files in different locations
than installing from source. If you follow the directions from
www.nagios.org, everything will end up under /usr/local/nagios.

The instructions for configuring the web interface are at
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/installweb.html. Just remember
that your contacts must be able to authenticate via basic authentication
for it to work right.

I run NRPE from xinetd, so /etc/xinetd.d/nrpe looks like this:
# default: on
# description: NRPE
service nrpe
{
flags = REUSE
socket_type = stream
wait = no
user = nagios
server = /usr/local/nagios/bin/nrpe
server_args = -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/nrpe.cfg --inetd
log_on_failure += USERID
disable = no
only_from = 172.1.100.210 172.1.100.221
}

NRPE "runs" either through xinetd or as a daemon on each client. On the
monitoring server you'd have service checks call check_nrpe with the
appropriate arguments. There are some default ones for load and disk
space included with Nagios so you can see how they work.

The easy customization that I referred to is that you can use any
program or script which displays a single line of text and returns a
value of 0 to 3 as a service check.

Lee Garner <lee.spam@leegarner.com> wrote in news:8CvEf.3169$yL4.1799@prv-
forum2.provo.novell.com:

> If it's in yast, that should work. I got mine from Dag's yum repository
> (http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/) and rebuilt the RPM after making
> some slight UI modifications. I'm running 2.0rc1 and am pretty happy
> with it.

a last anxiety,
Dag's yum repository only it's for RedHat and Fedora, are there any RPM to
SuSE10?


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Thanks for your time,
Regards,
Ing. Juan L. Mera

Lee Garner <lee.spam@leegarner.com> wrote in news:8CvEf.3169$yL4.1799@prv-
forum2.provo.novell.com:

> If it's in yast, that should work. I got mine from Dag's yum repository
> (http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/) and rebuilt the RPM after making
> some slight UI modifications. I'm running 2.0rc1 and am pretty happy
> with it

Thanks Lee, I find at Cool Solution my solution, it's very nice to people
with a little linux knowledge as me.

http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/16723.html

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Thanks for your time,
Regards,
Ing. Juan L. Mera

Juan Mera wrote:
> a last anxiety,
> Dag's yum repository only it's for RedHat and Fedora, are there any RPM to
> SuSE10?
>

My experience is that Suse handles standard RPMs fine. One area that
you'd need to examine is the creation of init scripts, but otherwise
regular RH packages should install fine on Suse.

You can always download the .src.rpm and rebuild it, too.