Nagios XI question

[Joe Martin]

Thanks Tony.


On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Tony Yarusso <tyarusso at nagios.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 10:45 -0500, Joe Martin wrote:
> > Just exploring using Nagios for monitoring network, Windows, unix,
> > Linux and applications in various ways.  We're thinking Nagios XI
> > looks like a good fit with one exception - the documentation states
> > that Nagios XI is only supported on RHEL, CentOS and Fedora - we're a
> > SLES shop.  Anyone out there runing XI on SLES (specifically SLES 11)?
>
> While the actual code (a mix of C, Perl, and PHP) don't care what
> distribution it is, all of the installation scripts, documentation, cron
> jobs, etc. are tailored for RHEL/CentOS, and it would be very difficult
> to get them properly ported over.  We may expand the distro support in
> the future, but for the time being it is limited to those.
>
> That said, you can still use XI in a SLES shop.  You would need one
> system (or virtual machine) running XI on a CentOS base, but it could
> then monitor your SLES systems as targets.  The documentation for the
> Agent piece currently covers RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, and Debian,
> but that would be quite a bit easier to adapt to SLES than XI itself.
>
> --
> Tony Yarusso
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