Monitoring Linux SUSE from Nagios

[minnow]

I noticed that these is no Monitoring Wizard for Linux SUSE and see that there is a link for installing the NRPE client at http://www.octopuscs.com/blogs/Linux/Ho ... n-openSuse can someone please validate that these are the procedures I should be using for installing an agent on a SUSE platform for monitor in Nagios?

Also, noticed some conversations in the forum talking about adding a "Monitoring Wizard" for SUSE Linux servers, are there any dates targeted for that to be released? I'm currently evaluating Nagios as a UNIX.LINUX monitoring solution and was hoping for more of an automated solution installing and deploying these SUSE Agents, which is our standard LINUX Platform.

[slansing]

Actually, I believe that our new NCPA agent has SUSE support, it should compile fine, check out the SUSE RPM section here:

http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/ncpa ... ation.html

[minnow]

I downloaded the "SuSe •64-bit" and then rna the "rpm -ivh --nomd5 /tmp/nagios/ncpa-head.os12.x86_64.rpm" and received the following errors. error: Failed dependencies:
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.13)(64bit) is needed by ncpa-1.1-1.x86_64
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.14)(64bit) is needed by ncpa-1.1-1.x86_64
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.15)(64bit) is needed by ncpa-1.1-1.x86_64
libcrypto.so.1.0.0()(64bit) is needed by ncpa-1.1-1.x86_64
libreadline.so.6()(64bit) is needed by ncpa-1.1-1.x86_64
libssl.so.1.0.0()(64bit) is needed by ncpa-1.1-1.x86_64
libz.so.1(ZLIB_1.2.0)(64bit) is needed by ncpa-1.1-1.x86_64

Are these not standard lib files that get installed with the following SuSe /proc/version:
Linux version 3.0.13-0.27-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 4.3.4 [gcc-4_3-branch revision 152973] (SUSE Li
nux) ) #1 SMP Wed Feb 15 13:33:49 UTC 2012 (d73692b)

[slansing]

They may not be, depending on what the SuSe server is used for, you will need to make sure those packages are installed. I'm making a note of this so we can add it to a prerequisites section in the documentation.

[minnow]

Is there an oler version of the SUSE Linux Install that I can utilize, to deploy monitoring for our SUSE LINUX Servers?

[scottwilkerson]

No, you are going to need these dependent packages, I believe you can find them at

http://software.opensuse.org/

e.g.
http://software.opensuse.org/package/glibc
http://software.opensuse.org/package/libcryptopp
http://software.opensuse.org/package/openssl

[jkinning]

I tried install both ncpa-1.7.2.os12.x86_64.rpm and ncpa-1.7.2.os13.x86_64.rpm both give me the same errors.

Retrieving package ncpa-1.7.2-1.x86_64 (1/1), 7.4 MiB (27.1 MiB unpacked)
Retrieving package ncpa-1.7.2-1.x86_64 (1/1), 7.4 MiB (27.1 MiB unpacked)
Installing: ncpa-1.7.2-1 [done]
Additional rpm output:
uid=1000(nagios) gid=1000(nagcmd) groups=16(dialout),33(video),1000(nagcmd)
insserv: Service syslog is missed in the runlevels 4 to use service ncpa_listener
ncpa_listener 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
insserv: Service syslog is missed in the runlevels 4 to use service ncpa_listener
ncpa_passive 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
./ncpa_posix_listener: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found (required by ./ncpa_posix_listener)
./ncpa_posix_listener: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found (required by /usr/local/ncpa/libpython2.7.so.1.0)
Started listener...
/usr/local/ncpa/ncpa_posix_passive: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found (required by /usr/local/ncpa/ncpa_posix_passive)
/usr/local/ncpa/ncpa_posix_passive: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found (required by /usr/local/ncpa/libpython2.7.so.1.0)
Started passive agent...

The links above are for openSUSE not SLES. Is it possible to install the NCPA on the Enterprise version of SUSE? I noticed a thread about getting security hits using the nrpe agent and I don't want to install that agent just to change later on.

[abrist]

Is it possible to install the NCPA on the Enterprise version of SUSE?

Yes, if you can hunt down the necessary deps. Are there community repos in the same vein as epel in the rhel ecosystem?

[jkinning]

There is the Build service but I don't see anything for NCPA - http://software.opensuse.org/find

Anyone able to get the NCPA agent installed on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11? 12 was just released but I haven't tried that yet as all my hosts are running 11sp3.

[abrist]

Have you tried getting all the deps and reinstalling?
Is GLIBC and syslog installed?