Starting with Nagios

[nets]

I have a couple of questions about nagios, would be really helpful if some one can answer them for me.

1: In a NOC environment, would a centralized environment be better or distributed?

2: Whats the maximum capacity that a nagios DB can handle?

3: What is a better choice, purchasing Nagios on VMware or doing a clean install?

Answers to these questions will be very helpful and appreciated.

Thank You very much

[mmestnik]

I have a couple of questions about nagios, would be really helpful if some one can answer them for me.

1: In a NOC environment, would a centralized environment be better or distributed?

I don't think this is the correct input. The output here depends more on how slow to respond your hosts are. If each check takes 15 or 30 seconds to run and you are tying to run 5000 checks every minuet /w 1000 checks at a time, that's 1000 more checks then could possibly be done. So turn on distributed monitoring. However if your checks take 3 to 7 seconds then it's less likely you would need DM.

2: Whats the maximum capacity that a nagios DB can handle?

We don't know, if you find out would you let us know.

3: What is a better choice, purchasing Nagios on VMware or doing a clean install?

Use the VM, there would be nothing *clean about installing XI on top of your own installation of Linux. You can convert the VM to run on bare metal or on another Virtual Technology. * Not that I think we can do it better, but from our point of view the VM is a controlled environment.

Answers to these questions will be very helpful and appreciated.

Thank You very much