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by ermerzws
Wed Jul 31, 2013 1:23 pm
Forum: Nagios XI
Topic: Nagios UPS management project
Replies: 7
Views: 1594

Re: Nagios UPS management project

Can you set it as redhat or fedora? (centos, fedora and redhat are all really close) Make sure you downloaded the 32bit version of the vm. I downloaded a different version of VMplayer and got it working. Next question, in order to access the web interface nagiosxi needs an IP address, but DHCP is n...
by ermerzws
Wed Jul 31, 2013 12:25 pm
Forum: Nagios XI
Topic: Nagios UPS management project
Replies: 7
Views: 1594

Re: Nagios UPS management project

Our VM appliances only run CentOS, though you can run the vm on any machine/OS that runs VMWare player or Virtualbox. If you wish to continue to configure Nagios core, you will have some reading ahead of you: http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/nagioscore/3/en/toc.html I got Vmware Player up and run...
by ermerzws
Wed Jul 31, 2013 10:48 am
Forum: Nagios XI
Topic: Nagios UPS management project
Replies: 7
Views: 1594

Re: Nagios UPS management project

Easiest thing would be to install one of our Nagios XI VM's http://www.nagios.com/downloadxi/ Then follow this guide to add the plugin http://library.nagios.com/library/products/nagiosxi/documentation/465-managing-plugins-in-nagios-xi What OS would work best for that? I am currently using Ubuntu on...
by ermerzws
Wed Jul 31, 2013 9:44 am
Forum: Nagios XI
Topic: Nagios UPS management project
Replies: 7
Views: 1594

Nagios UPS management project

Hi, I am currently an intern at a college and have been tasked with a UPS monitoring project. What I need to do; monitor a handful of UPS's remotely via a web interface that will display information like battery life, status, temp etc. Nagios seems like a perfect candidate to do this, and the apcups...