Installing Nagios Server on a Virtual Machine

[DE/HAM Hoppe, Leif]

Hi Juki,

No problems here, either.
OpenSuSe on Vmware ESX.

regards from Hamburg

cheers
Leif

-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Schneemann [mailto:cschneemann at suse.de]
Sent: Donnerstag, 12. November 2009 13:03
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Installing Nagios Server on a Virtual Machine

Hi,

On Thursday November 12 2009 12:42:47 pm Juki wrote:
> Hello people,
>
> I would like to know if it is advisable (or best practice) to install and
> run a Nagios monitoring server on a virtual machine (in this case, with
> OpenSuSE as the OS) with
> the intention of monitoring physical hardware client machines on the same
> LAN.

we have our Nagios testsystem and some distributed Nagios' running in Xen
guests. We are seeing no problems with doing that.

>
> If so, what known issues should I look out for in this case?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Juki

Greetings,
 Christian

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