Nagios VM

[Tim Van Caeyzeele]

Hi Andreas,

Thanks for your feedback.

Offcourse I'm not using the vmware setup to monitor itself ;) It was monitoring the complete network.
Anyway, I started of with a clean sheet, installed it on a standalone server.

It's rebuilt for 98% which brings me to the part of decent backups...I'm not a linux wizz at all! Would you have some good recommandations for backing up my system in a simple way so I can rebuilt it after a crash ?
Would a ghost image work (just for the OS and plugins) combined with periodical copies of the cfg files ?

Thanks,

Tim.

-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:ae at op5.se]
Sent: maandag 9 juni 2008 14:31
To: Tim Van Caeyzeele
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios VM

Tim Van Caeyzeele wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I was wondering if anyone has a full up and running nagios 3.02
> installation with some extra features in it and is willing to share
> it ? I know some projects exists (nagiosvma/nagios-on-cd/...), but
> they all work on nagios 2x
>
> The reason I'm asking:
>
> I spent 2 weeks configuring nagios 3.02 with several plugins
> (n2rrd/nagvis), customized website and custom check scripts and just
> ended up with a broken hard disk... -> 2 weeks work down the drain
> GRR L
>
> I managed to get some cfg files back however ;)
>
> Before starting back all the way from square, I wanted to check with
> you guys ;)
>

Make frequent backups. Nagios relies heavily on the system clock
running nicely over a long period of time. VMWare isn't very good at
that sort of thing, so you'd be better off running it on a stand-alone
server.

Besides the clock issue, would you *really* want to monitor your VMWare
server from within the VMWare server itself? It's like testing if a gun
works by looking down the barrel and pressing the trigger half a dozen
times.

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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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