Your first warning that appears is: "You are running an unstable version of Lilac, Unstable versions may not be feature complete and not production, use it at you own risk"
For a complete novice like myself it proves to much of a risk to install, the last thing I want to do is find myself 3 months backwards. Martyn -----Original Message----- From: Taylor Dondich [mailto:tdond...@gmail.com] Sent: 10 March 2009 04:43 To: Martyn Cc: ncc...@gmail.com; nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Any recommendations Please please please. Best Nagios 3.x configuration tool with the most coverage of Nagios 3.x features. Lilac! www.lilacplatform.com Taylor On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Martyn <mar...@chetnet.co.uk> wrote: > Yep I understand, which book to purchase is the question though. > > Building a Monitoring Infrastructure with Nagios > > http://www.amazon.com/Building-Monitoring-Infrastructure-Nagios-Joseph > sen/dp/0132236931/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b > > or > > Nagios 3 Enterprise Network Monitoring: Including Plug-Ins and > Hardware Devices > > http://www.amazon.com/Nagios-Enterprise-Network-Monitoring-Including/d > p/1597492671/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1222355174&sr=8-2 > > Am on the verge of purchasing Nagios 3 ent. > > Thanks > ________________________________ > From: Andrew Davis [mailto:ncc...@gmail.com] > Sent: 09 March 2009 22:11 > To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Any recommendations > > Per the Nagios Exchange site, NagiosWeb only supports up to Nagios > 2.x. It also hasn't been updated since 2006. If you're going to do a > new Nagios install, you should be on 3.x. > > If you're going to try one, you're probably best off with NagMin, but > realistically, unless you're going to make changes in the web > frontend, then crawl your server for what's changed and diff it, you > aren't likely to learn it. I just migrated from BB to Nagios following > Wolfgang Barth's "Nagios 2nd Edition" and its been really helpful to > understand the file structures and command-line, especially if you > want to extend Nagios with trending, etc. So this is where I politely > say "suck it up and read the manual... or at least a good book about > it". :) > > Of course, a few years of experience as a UNIX/Linux admin won't hurt > either... > > A. Davis > Email: ncc...@gmail.com > > "There is no limit to what a man can accomplish > if he doesn't care who gets the credit." - Ronald Reagan > > > Martyn wrote: > > Hi Group, anybody used or can recommend ant of the below, or any > others, I think if I can build a few via a GUI it will give me a better understanding. > > Nagmin > Nagat > Nagiosweb > > Thanks > > Martyn > > ________________________________ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -- Taylor Dondich Check out Lilac, a configuration tool for Nagios 3 at http://www.lilacplatform.com Check out my Shortcut with O'Reilly Press: Network Monitoring with Nagios: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596528195/index.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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