I know this is a holy war topic but it is just a matter of preference. I use
CentOS for our Icinga Instances as well as much of our *nix environment. I use
Ubuntu for testing out new software as generally is it is faster and easier to
standup and install packages on.
My main reason for not recommending Ubuntu Server as a choice is for the fact
that you might as well just run Debian, which is one of the defacto choices in
an enterprise environment due to stability, ease of maintenance, and
reliability. My reasons for not recommending Ubuntu in general is that is
makes too many changes to the underlying structure of Linux(file locations,
command substructure, etc). It tends to do things the Ubuntu way, which to
their credit is great for desktop users, but not so great for general
mainstream Linux users. It comes down to the fact that you can learn Ubuntu or
you can learn Linux.
CentOS is not as prone to issue as it is built from Redhat sources but has the
Redhat specific items stripped from it. While it does make a few changes from
a standard(Slackware, LFS) install it is by far, in my opinion, easer to work
with. Stuff is where it belongs and operates how I expect it to.
That being said, Linux is Linux and will generally operate in the same manner.
Pick a distribution and stick with it, you will learn enough that you can take
the general knowledge elsewhere if necessary. I tend to prefer Slackware or
Debian myself for production systems.
As far as Icinga goes, there is really no upside or downside to picking one
distro over the other. I have done stock installs of icinga, rrdtool, and
pnp4nagios on both and they both perform equally well in testing, Cent6 tends
to install less bloat by default but Ubuntu has a minimal install option that
installs the *bare* essentials.
From: Andrew LaPierre [mailto:alapie...@gccsda.com]
Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 10:10 AM
To: icinga-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [icinga-users] Best OS platform
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Jones, Matt
<matt.jo...@monster.com<mailto:matt.jo...@monster.com>> wrote:
It is a very capable OS but my personal thoughts are it is more of a desktop
OS, it is too user friendly for my taste.
Curious, you don't recommend it because it's too user friendly? Do you have
other reasons? :-)
--
Andrew LaPierre
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