Nagios stop working

[rbizzell39]

What is the proper way to remove all instances of nagios and start from scratch. This was compile so should there be uninstall option

[dwhitfield]

Normally, I would say rm -rf the following:

/usr/local/nagios/
/etc/init.d/nagios
/etc/sysconfig/nagios

However, considering it seems like you have a couple of different installs in non-standard locations, it probably makes sense to install a fresh OS. If you have other things running on this server (not really supported anyway), then you could just create a VM and do a fresh Nagios install in the VM. Any VM software should work, but I know we have people using VMWare and VirtualBox sucessfully.

You could try find / -name "nagios*", and remove everything but of course that isn't going to grab nrpe.

[rbizzell39]

Yes it is running as a vm. I might have to do that

[dwhitfield]

If you have a snapshot, you could just roll it back.

[rbizzell39]

yeah I will do that but I never took any previous ones

[dwhitfield]

Please let us know when you are done with the reinstall and if you run into any problems.

[rbizzell39]

ok will do

[dwhitfield]

No rush on our end. Just let us know.