ANN: Nagios 1.0 beta 6 RPM packages for Red Hat Linux

[Karl DeBisschop]

On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 10:29, Ramiro Morales wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've just uploaded to
> 
>   http://www.rmorales.com.ar/rpms/nagios/SRPMS/
> 
> a source package (.srpm) of the Nagios RPM package set I maintain.
> 
> Nagios Version packaged is 1.0 beta 6.
> 
> These packages contain modifications to improve usability 
> on a Red Hat Linux environment as well as some fixes.
> 
> They are based on previous work I had done on a similar 
> package set of NetSaint 0.0.7 (so they inherit some fixes
> and usability modifications I made at that time and remain 
> in the .spec file currently shipped inside the Nagios tarball)
> plus additional Nagios-specific tweaking.

The spec in the nagios CVS tree differs from what you posted. Should I
merge them to the extent feasible?

> (The list of fixes The annoucement email message I sent to the
> netsaint-users mailing list can be fount at:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=1603316
> )
> 
> Also included are three scripts that help in the process
> of migrating from a NetSaint installation to Nagios.
> (among them, a modified version of the status retention
> format conversion Perl script I posted days ago to the
> list:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=1114033&forum_id=
> 1873
> 
> )
> 
> Feedback, bug reports, patches are welcome so I can try to
> get the packages ready for the Nagios 1.0 release.
> For these lucky Red Hat Linux 8.0 users that bought a CD
> set or managed to download the ISO images, I would like
> to hear about your experiences with the package buiding
> process on that platform.
> 
> I'm realizing now I forgot to document in the file below
> (first TODO mod for the next package release) the
> command line switches you can specify at build time to
> rpm/rpmbuild to influence some ./configure
> and run-time behaviour:
> 
> o Performance data handling method to use. By default we will use
>   the file-based one (as existed in NetSaint).
>   You can select the external command based method (the defaut for
>   Nagios) by specifying
>   --define 'PERF_EXTERNAL 1'
> 
>  in the rpm commandline
> 
> 
> o Embedded Perl stuff, specify
>   --define 'EMBPERL 1'
>   in the rpm command-line to enable it.
> 
> An excerpt of the included README.RPM file follows:
> 
> RPM package of Nagios network monitor for Red Hat Linux (RHL) systems
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> * Target supported RHL versions are: 6.2 to 7.3
> 
>   I'll try to test the packages with RHL version 8.0 and to update
>   them if necessary (that RHL release will ship with Apache 2 so
>   I dont'w know if the web interface stuff: CGIs and httpd.conf
>   additions will need to be modified).
> 
> * The packages are derived from a similar set of packages of Nagios'
>   antecessor NetSaint (from the same author Ethan Galstad) that I
>   maintained. The Nagios packages include additional fixes, modi-
>   fications and features.
> 
> * Indeed, this package provides some extra scripts that help to 
>   migrate from a previous installation of my NetSaint 0.0.7 (last
>   official upstream version) RPM packages (last package revision was
>   release 25rm). The scripts are
>   
> 	n2n-config.sh		Convert object definition configuration
> 				files from the old NetSaint line-based
> 				format to the new template based format
> 				used by Nagios. The files with the new
> 				format are created under the
> 				/etc/nagios/netsaint directory so you
> 				can examine them and maybe save a lot
> 				of typing to define again all your
> 				hosts, services contact {,groups}, etc. 
> 				The files located in /etc/nagios are
> 				not affected.
> 
> 	n2n-logs.sh		Copies the archived NetSaint logs from
> 				the location where they were kept in
> 				the NetSaint RPM to where Nagios would
> 				put them so you can keep your historic
> 				data about the status of your services/
> 				hosts. Format hasn't changed between 
> 				NetSaint and Nagios.
> 
> 	n2n-retention.pl	Converts the retention data file
> 				status.sav (if any, that is if you were
> 				using the feature with NetSaint and are
> 				goint to use it with Nagios too) from
> 				the NetSaint format to the Nagios format.
> 
>   and are located in the /usr/lib/nagios directory.
>   
>   Don't forget to stop both NetSaint and Nagios before running these
>   scripts.
> 
> * The packages' pre/post (un)installtion scripts send messages to 
>   syslog to inform of the progress of the actions they perform.
>   All the message are prefixed with the "nagios/rpm" string to faci-
>   litate searching, the priority used is user.notice.
>   
> * When (un)installing the nagios-www sub-package (it contains all the
>   HTML interface stuff plus the CGIs), the package scripts try to
>   detect if Apache is running on the system and then try to
>   
>     o Reload Apache
>     o Gracefully restart Apache
>    
>   in that order (from less to more intrusive) to make the Apache
>   configuration changes performed enter in effect.
> 
>   There is a great degree of variation in the actions supported by the
>   Apache Sys V initscript (/etc/[rc.d/]init.d/httpd) in the supported
>   RHL versions so our scripts take this in account and strive to be
>   well behaved.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> --
> Ramiro
> 
> 
> 
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