Using SLES10 and Nagios 3.x under VMWare

[Christian Schneemann]

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:cschneemann at suse.de]
> Sent: 19 February 2009 14:17
> To: nagios-users at 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. We now changed to xen guests because I prefer xen
> ;)
>
> I see no problems with running nagios in a virtual machine.
>
> Do you use the official packages from SLES or the ones from buildservice?
> Or do you install nagios from sources?
>
> Greetings,
> 	Christian
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