<div>Dear Jorg,</div> <div> </div> <div>How are you?</div> <div>Thank you very much for your information.</div> <div> </div> <div>As far as the configuration goes.. I only did:</div> <div> </div> <div><FONT face="Courier New" size=3># cp cgi.cfg-sample cgi.cfg<BR># cp nagios.cfg-sample nagios.cfg<BR># cp minimal.cfg-sample minimal.cfg<BR># cp resource.cfg-sample resource.cfg</FONT></div> <div><FONT face="Courier New" size=3></FONT> </div> <div><FONT face="Courier New" size=3>other than that, nothing has been done..</FONT></div> <div><FONT face="Courier New" size=3>So, i guess, it can only monitor the localhost and basic services.</FONT></div> <div><FONT face="Courier New" size=3></FONT> </div> <div><FONT face="Courier New" size=3>Do you have config file or an example for how to manage a subnet and some of the services (processes, disk spaces....) for some of the hosts on that subnet.</FONT></div> <div><FONT face="Courier
New" size=3></FONT> </div> <div><FONT face="Courier New" size=3>Best regards,</FONT></div> <div><FONT face="Courier New" size=3>Tom Tran</FONT></div> <div><BR><BR><BR><BR><B><I>Jorg.Schulz@systeam.se</I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Hi Tom </FONT><BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>How long did you come with your configuration ?, if you are in the beginning i recommend to read the included Documents that follows with the Nagios installation</FONT> <BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>or http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/ </FONT><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Nagios did not use a database like mysql or others as "buildin". But there is a database support for mysql or PostgreSQL.</FONT> <BR><BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>The default method for storing status data, comments, etc. in Nagios is (and probably will continue to be) in plain old text
files. The standard files used by the default external data routines include the </FONT><A href="http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/configmain.html#status_file"><FONT face=Arial color=blue size=2><U>status file</U></FONT></A><FONT face=Arial size=2>, </FONT><A href="http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/configmain.html#downtime_file"><FONT face=Arial color=blue size=2><U>downtime file</U></FONT></A><FONT face=Arial size=2>, </FONT><A href="http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/configmain.html#comment_file"><FONT face=Arial color=blue size=2><U>comment file</U></FONT></A><FONT face=Arial size=2>, and the </FONT><A href="http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/configmain.html#state_retention_file"><FONT face=Arial color=blue size=2><U>state_retention file</U></FONT></A><FONT face=Arial size=2>. With the default install, extended host and service information is not stored in its own file, but in </FONT><A
href="http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/configextinfo.html"><FONT face=Arial color=blue size=2><U>extended host and service information</U></FONT></A><FONT face=Arial size=2> definitions in the </FONT><A href="http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/configcgi.html"><FONT face=Arial color=blue size=2><U>CGI configuration file</U></FONT></A><FONT face=Arial size=2>. </FONT><BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>The configuration files are under ../nagios/etc directory </FONT><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>There are *-sample.cfg files under the ../nagios/etc directory - for hosts,services and so on ----take a look </FONT><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>I can also recommend a very good book for you -- </FONT><FONT size=2><TT><B>Nagios 2.0 Administration - (helps me very much in my daily work)</B></TT></FONT> <BR><BR><FONT size=2><TT><B>Hope i could help you a little bit....</B></TT></FONT> <BR><BR><FONT size=2><TT><B>regards </B></TT></FONT><BR><BR><FONT
size=2><TT><B>/jörg </B></TT></FONT><BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2> <BR></FONT><IMG src="cid:1065286258000000@web60522.mail.yahoo.com"> <BR><BR><BR> <TABLE width="100%"> <TBODY> <TR vAlign=top> <TD width="40%"><FONT face=sans-serif size=1><B>Tom Tran <thoanluutran@yahoo.com></B> </FONT><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=1>Sent by: nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net</FONT> <div><FONT face=sans-serif size=1>2006-05-31 18:42</FONT> </div> <TD width="59%"> <TABLE width="100%"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD> <DIV align=right><FONT face=sans-serif size=1>To</FONT></DIV> <TD vAlign=top><FONT face=sans-serif size=1>nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</FONT> <TR> <TD> <DIV align=right><FONT face=sans-serif size=1>cc</FONT></DIV> <TD vAlign=top> <TR> <TD> <DIV align=right><FONT face=sans-serif size=1>Subject</FONT></DIV> <TD vAlign=top><FONT face=sans-serif size=1>[Nagios-users] Nagios newbie and some
questions..</FONT></TR></TBODY></TABLE><BR> <TABLE> <TBODY> <TR vAlign=top> <TD> <TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><BR></TR></TBODY></TABLE><BR><BR><BR><FONT size=3>Hello All,</FONT> <BR><FONT size=3> </FONT> <BR><FONT size=3>I am very new to Nagios. I just installed Nagios on my SuSE.... and it looks fine..</FONT> <BR><FONT size=3>However, i have some questions i would like to ask..</FONT> <BR><FONT size=3> </FONT> <BR><FONT size=3>1. Nagios does not use database; so, how they gonna store the data? Config files?</FONT> <BR><FONT size=3>2. I would like to manage all the hosts in my network... How can i do that? where can i find the documents? I did a search and found a lot of stuffs and I still haven't got the guide i need. Please help if you know what links?</FONT> <BR><FONT size=3> </FONT> <BR><FONT size=3>Best regards,</FONT> <BR><FONT size=3>Tom Tran<BR><B><I><BR>"Max H."
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