Can I install Nagios on Linux ?

 
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Old 07-21-2011
Question Can I install Nagios on Linux ?

Can I install Nagios on Linux ?

I want to monotor some Windows and Linux systems through Nagios,
So Can I Install Nagios on LINUX?

Or should I install it on SuseLinux?

I wan to learn more about Nagios , Please guide me properly.
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Old 07-21-2011
Q: Can I install Nagios on Linux (assumed Red Hat)
A: Yes

Code:
# yum whatprovides */nagios
Loaded plugins: rhnplugin
...
nagios-2.12-6.el5.x86_64 : Host/service/network monitoring program

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Old 07-21-2011
So If I want to practice some basic monitoring stuffs of Nagios, can I do it on Vmware machines buy installing Windows XP on one machine and RHEL 5 on another and monitoring XP machine from RHEL5?

Please guide me,I am new to Nagios world.


Question:

1. Which is best site to give basic to advanced information about Nagios?
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Old 07-21-2011
Yes. Realize that "Linux" is not Red Hat. Red Hat is a distribution of Linux. You may want to look at hyperic, by the way. I have found it remarkably easier to get running than Nagios, and it takes nagios plugins.
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Old 07-21-2011
On Suse as root:

Code:
zypper in nagios nagios-plugins nagios-www

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Old 07-21-2011
I think Nagios official documentation is pretty well done. So perhaps you may want to start there: Nagios Core
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Old 07-22-2011
Firstly you install nagios, I can help you for monitoring.
It is not so difficult to understand.

---------- Post updated at 06:33 PM ---------- Previous update was at 12:17 PM ----------

I can configure nagios but I didn't install before.
Maybe below output can help you. Its shows only two packets on our RH.

Code:
# rpm -qa | grep nagios*
nagios-plugins-1.4.14-1.el5.rf
nagios-3.2.1-5.el5.rf
#

Code:
# uname -a
Linux GateWay 2.6.18-194.el5 #1 SMP Tue Mar 16 21:52:43 EDT 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
#

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