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Off Topic => Engineering => Topic started by: toasty0 on March 11, 2009, 08:40:09 pm

Title: Nagios
Post by: toasty0 on March 11, 2009, 08:40:09 pm

Hey Nem...

Thoiught you and Bonk would get a kick out lof this. I've been tasked to build a server farm, then insall and configure Nagios http://www.nagios.org/

Ain't that a hoot for a MS fanboy ;)

Title: Re: Nagios
Post by: Nemesis on March 11, 2009, 09:37:15 pm

Never hurts to broaden the resume.  :)  Have fun.

Title: Re: Nagios
Post by: toasty0 on March 11, 2009, 10:40:22 pm

I think the fun part of this will be getting my feet wet with the Linux kernal using the command line.  :multi:

Title: Re: Nagios
Post by: Bonk on March 11, 2009, 11:22:04 pm

Or you could try this ./configure option: --enable-cygwin ;)

I understand it has been built and run successfully under Cygwin.

Alex Peeters put a bunch of work into it. The option is still present in the configure script and I see edits to the Cygwin code as late as 3.0rc2 in the Nagios change log. Should still work by the look of it.

It might be easier to build and set it up on Linux first time though, but giving Cygwin a try might be worthwhile.

I've never used Nagios myself, so am rather confused by the need for windows clients. In my explorations of MRTG I found that SNMP services could be setup with native windows tools on windows boxes, no third party clients needed.

I'll be curious to hear the tale.

Title: Re: Nagios
Post by: Bonk on March 13, 2009, 05:54:08 am

Saw this review today, thought you might be interested:
http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/08/1328247

Title: Re: Nagios
Post by: toasty0 on March 13, 2009, 08:01:23 am

Thanks for the info Bonk. Just placed it on my Amazon wish list. Maybe I can talk the boss into sprining for it.