All 3 Linux distros you mention run Nagios equally well. The only difference being the Nagios packages, which are all 3rd party. If I had to vote, I'd put RHEL (not Fedora) 1st, Debian 2nd, and Suse 3rd.
My bias towards RedHat is due to their enterprise-friendly Kickstart Installer (which is not necessarily nagios related) Debian probably has better repositories, but you're only installing once and leaving the repositories alone after that. Besides, you'll probably want to keep a copy of the packages that got installed, so in case of a disaster you can recover to the same version, which a repository won't always keep around. -----Original Message----- From: Meyer, David R [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 4:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Nagios-users] Question about Linux Distros All, I am going to convert my nagios-text install (no DB...just flat files) to a "real" install tomorrow. Here is my question... In your experience, which version of Linux is best for Nagios? I have access to Red Hat EL, SUSE, and Debian and am equally comfortable with all of them. BUT...I am a Nagios virgin. Have you noticed one distro being better than another in terms of Nagios installing and running? Also, which backend DB - - MySQL or PostgreSQL? Same experience applies to both. Thanks for your advice! Dav ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] 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
