Using SLES10 and Nagios 3.x under VMWare

[Ciro Iriarte]

2009/2/19 Deborah Martin <Deborah.Martin at kognitio.com>:
> 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
>
>
>
> 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
>

If you are running a 32 bits machine, you can use the kernel that has
VMware's paravirtualization support and ask your infrastructure admin
to enable that option in the VM.

I'm running nagios v3 from BuildService on a Xen domU with SLES10SP2.

Regards,

-- 
Ciro Iriarte
http://cyruspy.wordpress.com
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