Any recommendations

[Martyn]

Your first warning that appears is:

"You are running an unstable version of Lilac, Unstable versions may not be
feature complete and not production, use it at you own risk"

For a complete novice like myself it proves to much of a risk to install,
the last thing I want to do is find myself 3 months backwards.

Martyn 

-----Original Message-----
From: Taylor Dondich [mailto:tdondich at gmail.com] 
Sent: 10 March 2009 04:43
To: Martyn
Cc: nccomp at gmail.com; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Any recommendations

Please please please.  Best Nagios 3.x configuration tool with the most
coverage of Nagios 3.x features.  Lilac!

www.lilacplatform.com

Taylor

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Martyn <martyn at chetnet.co.uk> wrote:
> Yep I understand, which book to purchase is the question though.
>
> Building a Monitoring Infrastructure with Nagios
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Building-Monitoring-Infrastructure-Nagios-Joseph
> sen/dp/0132236931/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b
>
> or
>
> Nagios 3 Enterprise Network Monitoring: Including Plug-Ins and 
> Hardware Devices
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Nagios-Enterprise-Network-Monitoring-Including/d
> p/1597492671/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1222355174&sr=8-2
>
> Am on the verge of purchasing  Nagios 3 ent.
>
> Thanks
> ________________________________
> From: Andrew Davis [mailto:nccomp at gmail.com]
> Sent: 09 March 2009 22:11
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Any recommendations
>
> Per the Nagios Exchange site, NagiosWeb only supports up to Nagios 
> 2.x. It also hasn't been updated since 2006. If you're going to do a 
> new Nagios install, you should be on 3.x.
>
> If you're going to try one, you're probably best off with NagMin, but 
> realistically, unless you're going to make changes in the web 
> frontend, then crawl your server for what's changed and diff it, you 
> aren't likely to learn it. I just migrated from BB to Nagios following 
> Wolfgang Barth's "Nagios 2nd Edition" and its been really helpful to 
> understand the file structures and command-line, especially if you 
> want to extend Nagios with trending, etc. So this is where I politely 
> say "suck it up and read the manual... or at least a good book about 
> it". :)
>
> Of course, a few years of experience as a UNIX/Linux admin won't hurt 
> either...
>
>   A. Davis
>   Email:     nccomp at gmail.com
>
>   "There is no limit to what a man can accomplish
>    if he doesn't care who gets the credit." - Ronald Reagan
>
>
> Martyn wrote:
>
> Hi Group, anybody used or can recommend ant of the below, or any 
> others, I think if I can build a few via a GUI it will give me a better
understanding.
>
> Nagmin
> Nagat
> Nagiosweb
>
> Thanks
>
> Martyn
>
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