We run nagios on virtual Opensuse servers without any problems (ESX). All our monitored hosts are windows server 2003 or greater. Before you are going to build an architecture for your own nagios implementation you have to select components - plugins, configuration tools and possibly alternate web interface. This is a brief lists of the components we have implemented: -Nagios 3.2.1 from source -NSClient++ SSL -NagiosQL for configuration -Apache with SingleSignOn implemented -Customized menu for creating custom views and entries All above mentioned components are part of "zero configuration build". Then the esx image is distributed to a data center where the team is trained to use NagiosQL interface only. Later then can maintain their infrastructure on their own. Michal Lackovic <table width=100%> <tr valign=top> <td width=40%>Greg Pangrazio <pangrazi@gmail.com> 08/09/2010 10:50 PM <table border> <tr valign=top> <td bgcolor=white> <div align=center>Please respond to Nagios Users List <nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net></div></table> <td width=59%> <table width=100%> <tr valign=top> <td> <div align=right>To</div> <td>Nagios Users List <nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net> <tr valign=top> <td> <div align=right>cc</div> <td> <tr valign=top> <td> <div align=right>Subject</div> <td>Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Deployment</table> <table> <tr valign=top> <td> <td></table> </table> <tt>I use nagios on Ubuntu both 10.04 and 8.04. I recommend installing from source as it is much more stable and works better with the plugins etc. than the default Ubuntu package. Other than that since you look to be monitoring lots of windows hosts i would suggest checking out wmi which was not too difficult to install on Ubuntu 10.04LTS. Greg Pangrazio On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Jim Avery <jim@jimavery.me.uk> wrote: > On 9 August 2010 17:49, Shane Killian <shane.killian@irishjobs.ie> wrote: > >> I've read a reasonable amount of documentation and learned a little from trial and error but if someone could. Point me in the right direction I'd really appreciate it. > > I think that's the thing - the documentation is great for sorting out > the nitty-gritty but not always so good for understanding how it's all > supposed to work together. > > What I did, and what I recommend anyone new to Nagios to do is to get > hold of one of the books about Nagios - my favourite (and I won't > pretend I've read them all) is the one by Wolfgang Barth published by > No Starch Press. > > </tt><a href=http://nostarch.com/nagios.htm><tt>http://nostarch.com/nagios.htm</tt></a><tt> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by > > Make an app they can't live without > Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge > </tt><a href="http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev"><tt>http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev</tt></a><tt> > _______________________________________________ > Nagios-users mailing list > Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > </tt><a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users"><tt>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</tt></a><tt> > ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. > ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge </tt><a href="http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev"><tt>http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev</tt></a><tt> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net </tt><a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users"><tt>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</tt></a><tt> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. ______________________________________________________________________ </tt>