Question about Linux Distros

[Tedman Eng]

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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