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Hmm, that's a very stupid command, how on earth is that in a document? I'd not use that any more.
from this - http://packages.ubuntu.com/quantal/nagios3 - I presume that you can just do a "sudo apt-get install nagios3 nagios3-cgi nagios3-core" and everything else will take care of itself.
NB. Nagios is rubbish.
Last edited by acid_kewpie; 09-19-2012 at 07:01 AM.
Seriously?? What would you recommend - I just need something simple and especially something that would alert me of server problems like hardware about to fail.
Well *I* think it's garbage but it's amazingly popular and does what most people want from it (as long as they do all the hard work themselves). How do you expect to know about things that are "about to fail" in the first place? That's not trivial.
Seriously?? What would you recommend - I just need something simple and especially something that would alert me of server problems like hardware about to fail.
I replaced Icinga+Cacti at our shop with Zabbix and it's been wonderful.
I haven't seen any software that can tell me when a host is "about to fail" but I am extremely sheltered and don't get out much...
What I actually meant by "about to fail" was in relation to what some software already offer: - features like alerting when CPU temp goes too high, hard drive temp goes too high and the likes.
one of the fundamental things about nagios is that it can monitor *any* value at all, by virtue of you having to go write a script to dig out the information you want and make that judgement call within your script. That's either a wonderful thing, or an awful thing, and I'm in the latter. So if you are happy bridging the gap between nagios dumbly running a script it's told and making that script do whatever it is that you want to base it on, then go nagios. It's just that Nagios need to be explicitly told to jump, or not, by independently written scirpts, and nagios itself is just totally dumb from there.
You can compare this to a decent SNMP aware tool like Zabbix (which I'm not actually familiar with) and you can directly tell the service to monitor this cpu oid, that disk space oid and report if they go above of below this or that, without that responsibility leaving the core platform at all.
Last edited by acid_kewpie; 09-20-2012 at 02:56 AM.
one of the fundamental things about nagios is that it can monitor *any* value at all, by virtue of you having to go write a script to dig out the information you want and make that judgement call within your script. That's either a wonderful thing, or an awful thing, and I'm in the latter. So if you are happy bridging the gap between nagios dumbly running a script it's told and making that script do whatever it is that you want to base it on, then go nagios. It's just that Nagios need to be explicitly told to jump, or not, by independently written scirpts, and nagios itself is just totally dumb from there.
You can compare this to a decent SNMP aware tool like Zabbix (which I'm not actually familiar with) and you can directly tell the service to monitor this cpu oid, that disk space oid and report if they go above of below this or that, without that responsibility leaving the core platform at all.
Looks like I'm on your side, Chris.
I'm skipping Nagios and giving a go at Zabbix. I'm definitely not into having to code for every single thing I need.
went through the whole process, setup admin and frontend passwords, etc.. and process completed.
However, now when I try to log into the frontend with http://192.168.0.107/zabbix
instead of getting the zabbix login screen, I get
Code:
You are not logged in.
You cannot view this URL as a guest. You must login to view this page.
If you think this message is wrong, please consult your administrators about getting the necessary permissions.
mysql_connect(): Access denied for user 'zabbix'@'localhost' (using password: YES) [include/db.inc.php:58]
Even if I click on Login, the same page reloads. I've attached a screenshot.
well if there's a mysql permissions error you obviously need to fix that. 5 seconds on google brought up this - http://www.zabbix.com/wiki/howto/ins...g_the_mysql_db, you really should have already found this yourself though...
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