[Nagios-users] Using SLES10 and Nagios 3.x under VMWare
Hi, I've never used SLES10 + Nagios 3.x as a VM Ware box and I wondered if any of you had come across any issues that I should be aware of. (A new environment is being built in this way to replace an old PC running nagios) Basically, the nagios 3.x setup is very simple. We use it to monitor database activity such as RAM or disk usage amongst others using plugins that I wrote. Nagios monitors a few other nodes using ping or ssh but other than that it's not a complicated setup. Any feedback / advice on running Nagios within VM Ware would be really useful. thanks, deborah *** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. Any unauthorised distribution or copying is strictly prohibited. Whilst Kognitio Limited takes steps to prevent the transmission of viruses via e-mail, we can not guarantee that any email or attachment is free from computer viruses and you are strongly advised to undertake your own anti-virus precautions. Kognitio grants no warranties regarding performance, use or quality of any e-mail or attachment and undertakes no liability for loss or damage, howsoever caused. Kognitio Limited, a company registered in England and Wales. Registered number 0212 7833. Registered Office: 3a Waterside Park, Cookham Road, Bracknell, Berks, RG12 1RB. VAT number 864 4378 92. Kognitio Inc, a company incorporated in Delaware, principal office 180 North Stetson, Suite 3500, Chicago, IL 60601, USA *** -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Using SLES10 and Nagios 3.x under VMWare
On Thursday February 19 2009 02:30:29 pm Deborah Martin wrote: Hi, I've never used SLES10 + Nagios 3.x as a VM Ware box and I wondered if any of you had come across any issues that I should be aware of. (A new environment is being built in this way to replace an old PC running nagios) Basically, the nagios 3.x setup is very simple. We use it to monitor database activity such as RAM or disk usage amongst others using plugins that I wrote. Nagios monitors a few other nodes using ping or ssh but other than that it's not a complicated setup. Any feedback / advice on running Nagios within VM Ware would be really useful. thanks, deborah Hi, we've used an vmware image for testing our config and new nagios packages and everything went fine. We now changed to xen guests because I prefer xen ;) I see no problems with running nagios in a virtual machine. Do you use the official packages from SLES or the ones from buildservice? Or do you install nagios from sources? Greetings, Christian *** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. Any unauthorised distribution or copying is strictly prohibited. Whilst Kognitio Limited takes steps to prevent the transmission of viruses via e-mail, we can not guarantee that any email or attachment is free from computer viruses and you are strongly advised to undertake your own anti-virus precautions. Kognitio grants no warranties regarding performance, use or quality of any e-mail or attachment and undertakes no liability for loss or damage, howsoever caused. Kognitio Limited, a company registered in England and Wales. Registered number 0212 7833. Registered Office: 3a Waterside Park, Cookham Road, Bracknell, Berks, RG12 1RB. VAT number 864 4378 92. Kognitio Inc, a company incorporated in Delaware, principal office 180 North Stetson, Suite 3500, Chicago, IL 60601, USA *** --- --- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when ::: reporting any issue. Messages without supporting info will risk being ::: sent to /dev/null -- Christian Schneemann - SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D - 90409 Nürnberg Phone: +49 (0)911 - 740 53 0 e-mail: cschneem...@suse.de - SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Using SLES10 and Nagios 3.x under VMWare
Hi Christian, The vmware environment (i.e Sles10) is built by IT services here so I don't have any insight on this part. I shall then build nagios from source so that I have a more granular control over where things go although it's mostly to standard places i.e /usr/local/nagios etc regards, deborah -Original Message- From: Christian Schneemann [mailto:cschneem...@suse.de] Sent: 19 February 2009 14:17 To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Using SLES10 and Nagios 3.x under VMWare On Thursday February 19 2009 02:30:29 pm Deborah Martin wrote: Hi, I've never used SLES10 + Nagios 3.x as a VM Ware box and I wondered if any of you had come across any issues that I should be aware of. (A new environment is being built in this way to replace an old PC running nagios) Basically, the nagios 3.x setup is very simple. We use it to monitor database activity such as RAM or disk usage amongst others using plugins that I wrote. Nagios monitors a few other nodes using ping or ssh but other than that it's not a complicated setup. Any feedback / advice on running Nagios within VM Ware would be really useful. thanks, deborah Hi, we've used an vmware image for testing our config and new nagios packages and everything went fine. We now changed to xen guests because I prefer xen ;) I see no problems with running nagios in a virtual machine. Do you use the official packages from SLES or the ones from buildservice? Or do you install nagios from sources? Greetings, Christian ** * This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. Any unauthorised distribution or copying is strictly prohibited. Whilst Kognitio Limited takes steps to prevent the transmission of viruses via e-mail, we can not guarantee that any email or attachment is free from computer viruses and you are strongly advised to undertake your own anti-virus precautions. Kognitio grants no warranties regarding performance, use or quality of any e-mail or attachment and undertakes no liability for loss or damage, howsoever caused. Kognitio Limited, a company registered in England and Wales. Registered number 0212 7833. Registered Office: 3a Waterside Park, Cookham Road, Bracknell, Berks, RG12 1RB. VAT number 864 4378 92. Kognitio Inc, a company incorporated in Delaware, principal office 180 North Stetson, Suite 3500, Chicago, IL 60601, USA ** * --- --- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when ::: reporting any issue. Messages without supporting info will risk being ::: sent to /dev/null -- Christian Schneemann - SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D - 90409 Nürnberg Phone: +49 (0)911 - 740 53 0 e-mail: cschneem...@suse.de - SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null *** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. Any unauthorised distribution or copying is strictly prohibited. Whilst Kognitio Limited takes steps to prevent the transmission of viruses via e-mail, we can not guarantee that any email or attachment is free from computer viruses and you are strongly advised to undertake
Re: [Nagios-users] Using SLES10 and Nagios 3.x under VMWare
On Thursday February 19 2009 03:28:53 pm Deborah Martin wrote: Hi Christian, The vmware environment (i.e Sles10) is built by IT services here so I don't have any insight on this part. I shall then build nagios from source so that I have a more granular control over where things go although it's mostly to standard places i.e /usr/local/nagios etc If you want to use rpm packages, there is a project in the openSUSE Buildservice (http://build.opensuse.org). There we package the stable version of nagios and nagios-plugins for easy installation. You can find there some other plugins too, espacially plugins for SLES and openSUSE. Here is a link to the repos, you can use them in yast/zypper/rug if you want ;) http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server://monitoring/version/ Greetings, Christian regards, deborah -Original Message- From: Christian Schneemann [mailto:cschneem...@suse.de] Sent: 19 February 2009 14:17 To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Using SLES10 and Nagios 3.x under VMWare On Thursday February 19 2009 02:30:29 pm Deborah Martin wrote: Hi, I've never used SLES10 + Nagios 3.x as a VM Ware box and I wondered if any of you had come across any issues that I should be aware of. (A new environment is being built in this way to replace an old PC running nagios) Basically, the nagios 3.x setup is very simple. We use it to monitor database activity such as RAM or disk usage amongst others using plugins that I wrote. Nagios monitors a few other nodes using ping or ssh but other than that it's not a complicated setup. Any feedback / advice on running Nagios within VM Ware would be really useful. thanks, deborah Hi, we've used an vmware image for testing our config and new nagios packages and everything went fine. We now changed to xen guests because I prefer xen ;) I see no problems with running nagios in a virtual machine. Do you use the official packages from SLES or the ones from buildservice? Or do you install nagios from sources? Greetings, Christian ** * This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. Any unauthorised distribution or copying is strictly prohibited. Whilst Kognitio Limited takes steps to prevent the transmission of viruses via e-mail, we can not guarantee that any email or attachment is free from computer viruses and you are strongly advised to undertake your own anti-virus precautions. Kognitio grants no warranties regarding performance, use or quality of any e-mail or attachment and undertakes no liability for loss or damage, howsoever caused. Kognitio Limited, a company registered in England and Wales. Registered number 0212 7833. Registered Office: 3a Waterside Park, Cookham Road, Bracknell, Berks, RG12 1RB. VAT number 864 4378 92. Kognitio Inc, a company incorporated in Delaware, principal office 180 North Stetson, Suite 3500, Chicago, IL 60601, USA ** * --- --- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when ::: reporting any issue. Messages without supporting info will risk being ::: sent to /dev/null -- Christian Schneemann - SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D - 90409 Nürnberg Phone: +49 (0)911 - 740 53 0 e-mail: cschneem...@suse.de - SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) --- - -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS
Re: [Nagios-users] Using SLES10 and Nagios 3.x under VMWare
Deborah Martin wrote: I've never used SLES10 + Nagios 3.x as a VM Ware box and I wondered if any of you had come across any issues that I should be aware of. I run Nagios in a dual-CPU VM (CentOS 5.2 guest on VMWare ESX 3.something). Once in a while, Nagios would shut down some time after midnight. I suspect that ESX is pretty busy while the other VMs are being backed up. The system log had entries like this: Jan 7 00:18:17 Monitor2 nagios: Caught SIGSEGV, shutting down... Jan 7 00:18:27 Monitor2 kernel: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 10s! [check_nt:21036] Jan 7 00:18:27 Monitor2 kernel: CPU 1: It didn't happen all the time, and there wasn't much I could do about it when it did happen. I created another Nagios VM identical to the first, except it's got a script which monitors the primary server and takes over if the primary fails. Nagios is not started on the failover server, so it takes very few resources to keep idling along. There are ~550 hosts and ~4500 services being monitored, and the two virtual CPUs run around 80% each in the Gnome system monitor app, and 1.3-2.0 in the load averages. They're both 3.0 virtual GHz, if I recall correctly. I have large installation tweaks turned on as well. The Nagios server is busy enough all the time that the server guys have mentioned going back to physical hardware if I have to add much more. From a user's perspective, I can't tell it's on a VM. I think the slowest part is how quickly my PC can render Nagios' web pages. -- Chris Beattie Nothing in this message is intended to make or accept and offer or to form a contract, except that an attachment that is an image of a contract bearing the signature of an officer of our company may be or become a contract. This message (including any attachments) is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. It may contain information that is non-public, proprietary, privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law or may constitute as attorney work product. If you are not the intended recipient, we hereby notify you that any use, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by telephone and delete this message immediately. Thank you. -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Using SLES10 and Nagios 3.x under VMWare
2009/2/19 Deborah Martin deborah.mar...@kognitio.com: Hi Christian, The vmware environment (i.e Sles10) is built by IT services here so I don't have any insight on this part. I shall then build nagios from source so that I have a more granular control over where things go although it's mostly to standard places i.e /usr/local/nagios etc regards, deborah -Original Message- From: Christian Schneemann [mailto:cschneem...@suse.de] Sent: 19 February 2009 14:17 To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Using SLES10 and Nagios 3.x under VMWare On Thursday February 19 2009 02:30:29 pm Deborah Martin wrote: Hi, I've never used SLES10 + Nagios 3.x as a VM Ware box and I wondered if any of you had come across any issues that I should be aware of. (A new environment is being built in this way to replace an old PC running nagios) Basically, the nagios 3.x setup is very simple. We use it to monitor database activity such as RAM or disk usage amongst others using plugins that I wrote. Nagios monitors a few other nodes using ping or ssh but other than that it's not a complicated setup. Any feedback / advice on running Nagios within VM Ware would be really useful. thanks, deborah Hi, we've used an vmware image for testing our config and new nagios packages and everything went fine. We now changed to xen guests because I prefer xen ;) I see no problems with running nagios in a virtual machine. Do you use the official packages from SLES or the ones from buildservice? Or do you install nagios from sources? Greetings, Christian If you are running a 32 bits machine, you can use the kernel that has VMware's paravirtualization support and ask your infrastructure admin to enable that option in the VM. I'm running nagios v3 from BuildService on a Xen domU with SLES10SP2. Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://cyruspy.wordpress.com -- -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
