Nagios newbie and some questions..

[Tom Tran]

Dear Jorg,
   
  How are you?
  Thank you very much for your information.
   
  As far as the configuration goes..  I only did:
   
  # cp cgi.cfg-sample cgi.cfg
# cp nagios.cfg-sample nagios.cfg
# cp minimal.cfg-sample minimal.cfg
# cp resource.cfg-sample resource.cfg
   
  other than that, nothing has been done..
  So, i guess, it can only monitor the localhost and basic services.
   
  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.
   
  Best regards,
  Tom Tran
  



Jorg.Schulz at systeam.se wrote:
  
Hi Tom 

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 
or http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/ 
Nagios did not use a database like mysql or others as "buildin". But there is a database support for mysql or PostgreSQL. 

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 status file, downtime file, comment file, and the state_retention file. With the default install, extended host and service information is not stored in its own file, but in extended host and service information definitions in the CGI configuration file. 

The configuration files are under ../nagios/etc directory 
There are *-sample.cfg files under the ../nagios/etc directory - for hosts,services and so on ----take a look 
I can also recommend a very good book for you -- Nagios 2.0 Administration - (helps me very much in my daily work) 

Hope i could help you a little bit.... 

regards 

/jörg 

 
 


        Tom Tran <thoanluutran at yahoo.com> 
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Hello All, 
  
I am very new to Nagios.  I just installed Nagios on my SuSE.... and it looks fine.. 
However,  i have some questions i would like to ask.. 
  
1.   Nagios does not use database; so, how they gonna store the data?  Config files? 
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? 
  
Best regards, 
Tom Tran

"Max H." <btmanmeh at verizon.net> wrote: 
Max H. wrote:
> check_snmp_disk.pl -- disk usage info
> check_snmp_mem.pl -- memory info
> check_snmp_procs.pl -- processes info and so on...

Sorry to reply to myself, but I forgot I didn't get the above plugins 
from nagiosexchange. I found them here:



They do have a Solaris section on nagiosexchange, however, along with 
tons of other useful items.

Good luck.

Max



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