AW: Question about Linux Distros

[Sand Philipp]

We run Nagios on Fedora Core 2 without any Problems so far...
Why wouldn't you recommend it to run Nagios on Fedora?

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] Im Auftrag von Tedman Eng
> Gesendet: Freitag, 30. Dezember 2005 03:16
> An: 'Meyer, David R'; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Betreff: RE: [Nagios-users] Question about Linux Distros
> 
> 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:David.Meyer07 at ca.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 4:04 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> 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
> 
> 
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