After downloading the nagio files?

[high1]

Hello

First time here. I have downloaded the VMware player and the following 4 files:

nagiosxi.nvram
nagiosxi.vmsd
nagiosxi
nagiosxi.vmxf

What do I do now, please?

Thanks.

High1

[mguthrie]

Open your VMware Player and select Open a Virtual Machine, and then browse to the directory where those files are stored. VMware Player should recognize which file to play.

These Nagios XI tutorials might help:

VMware Player tutorial
http://library.nagios.com/library/produ ... are-player
Web Interface Setup
http://library.nagios.com/library/produ ... etup-guide
10 Minute Crash Course (You made need to watch this more than once, it moves pretty fast)
http://library.nagios.com/library/produ ... ash-course

All of our tutorials and documentation are currently stored here, they should provide what you need to get up and running.
http://library.nagios.com/library/products/nagiosxi

[high1]

Hello mguthrie

Many thanks for your informative reply and extensive links.

The Player opens nagiosxi and when I click on 'Play Virtual Machine', I get the following error: 'Error while powering on: The file specified is not a virtual disk'.

I am attaching as a screenshot what I can see - not sure what the Lainux is doing there as I'm on Win XP Pro.

Thanks again.

High1

[mmestnik]

Please note that this "Just works." Try following our instructions more precisely, perhaps if you post the steps you are taking to get this error?

[high1]

Hello mmestnik

Thanks for your post.

OK, I open VMPlayer, and click 'Open a Virtual Machine'. A dialogue box pops up, opening the directory where I have my nagio files that I have downloaded. The dialogue box is looking for .vmx files and only one is visible: nagiosxi. So, I click this to open it and the interface is showing me: Powered Off; Other Linux; Workstation 6.5-7.x virtual machine. RAM 512MB.

Then I click Play Virtual Machine and then I get that VMWare Player error pop-up: 'Error while powering on: The file specified is not a virtual disk'.

And that's it.

High1

[mmestnik]

The zip file is how large? Should be 300M or so. There should be a file about that large in your unpacked folder.

Verify that the file was unzipped correctly without errors. I'm suspecting a corrupt download.

I recommend FDM, Free Download Manager, http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/
http://download.cnet.com/Free-Download- ... 75689.html

[high1]

Hello mmestnik

Thanks again.

Yes, it was a bad download.

I have downloaded it again and have now logged in to nagios. Just for starters, I've set it to monitor my own PC.

Many thanks for all your help.

High1