Howard One thing to consider is don't just take the defaults. When I build nagios I go through the entire option tree with ./configure. Same with the plugins. I've seen it place things totally wrong. I'd suggest looking at all the arguments with configure on both parts and make sure they are logical to each other
-Kevin Sent from my iPhone On Dec 27, 2012, at 10:30 AM, "Mark J. Bailey" <[email protected]> wrote: > One thing that attracted me to look at Zabbix is that there is a nagios > plugin "wrapper" that is supposed to let you integrate nagios plugins into > the Zabbix framework. So that was a big +1 to me for Zabbix because of the > plethora of nagios plugins. I think many Zabbix adopters in the Zabbix > community were once "bent" on Nagios too. :) > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Howard White > Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 10:21 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [nlug] Nagios is gonna drive me batt [ y | ier ] > > On 12/27/2012 10:11 AM, Mark J. Bailey wrote: >> Howard, >> >> Are you bent or required on Nagios? Nagios is power horse for sure, >> but a tough dog to master (and I don't own that dog). There are a >> couple of other GPL based alternatives that might suit your purposes >> that (to me) are much easier to deal with *IF* they will do what you > need: >> >> Zenoss (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenoss) >> >> Zabbix (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zabbix) >> >> Both appear to still be in some degree of active development. >> >> I haven't messed with Zenoss yet but Zabbix seemed useful. I think >> Nagios has a web front end too that I have never messed with. >> >> Just tossing these out here FWIW. >> >> Mark > > Always happy to hear about alternatives, Mark. In this case I _am_ bent > on Nagios. (that I am bent is well documented) The challenge here is > that always before I came in the middle after the initial install had the > kinks worked out. > > Howard > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To > unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
