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. 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