Just quick question

[Jim Mozley]

thilanka wrote:

> when you go to install the plugins on a remote host, do you have to compile the 
> 
> plugins on the remote host or can you just copy the plugins from the Nagios 
> 
> host's '/usr/local/nagios/libexec/' on the remote host? The main reason why I 
> 
> am asking this is becuase if you have to download and install the necessary 
> 
> perl modules and other libraries, some machines might already be in production 
> 
> and any changes have to be carefully managed. In most cases the compiling of 
> 
> modules and libraries can have adverse effects on the OS. Just a thought. 
> 
> Hopefully this question is not a dumb one....I hope ....
> 
I think this is correct...

For the C compiled plugins one can copy from the Nagios server if the 
remote has the same OS/Version/Architecture e.g. RH9 to RH9 or Sun4u 
Solaris 8 to Sun4u Solaris 8. It won't work if you copy the Solaris 
binary to RH9 (or whatever its called today).

If its a perl module you will need the libraries on the remote host. You 
could keep this up to date using CPAN (you can even take your own copy 
of CPAN - I do this using rsync then my servers get it from my copy and 
don't need internet access).

Jim



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