Nagios compatibility

[jmoseley at corp.xanadoo.com]

If you're using Redhat, unless there is a specific reason you want to
compile from source, just install Nagios vai yum repository:

yum install nagios
yum install nagios-plugins

That will install everything you need to get going.  It also installs the
/etc/init.d startup script, so you can then run the chkconfig command to
'turn on' the nagios server:

chkconfig --level 2345 nagios on

Using Redhat RPM's via yum package management also makes upgrades a snap.
And if you're using Redhat, CentOS, etc, using yum is one of the major
reasons for running such an operating system.

Unlike a previous poster who stated that repositories are often stale and
do not quickly apply security updates, this is not so for Redhat systems.
Their package maintainers often release package updates for software such
as Nagios within a few days, if not the same day, the software is released.
Security updates are often released the same day.

Yes, if you want to install via yum, delete the Nagios directories you
installed from source.  Might as well delete the user you created as well.
To access the web page, make sure you add a valid user/password to the
password file as defined in /etc/httpd/conf.d/nagios.cnf (assuming you
installed Apache via yum as well).

Good luck!

James Moseley




                                                                           
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Thanks Kevin for the reply,

Kevin Keane wrote:


As your suggestion to remove my existing nagios, is it correct to remove
the
nagios by deleting
every nagios directory in my machine?

(I'm using nagios-3.0.3.tar.gz and  nagios-plugins-1.4.12.tar.gz installer)





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