Nagios Support Forum

I am setting up a Nagios XI Standard trial and using the guide and the "additional information link" from http://exchange.nagios.org/components/c ... 1&cf_id=24. I have set the passwords in the places indicated in these documents and I can log in to the web interface as well as the console in VMware. I am trying to follow the steps that reference using Putty over SSH port 22, But, Putty says "access denied" when I try logging in using the nagios admin user. What credentials is it looking for? I am not sure why I cannot connect via Putty. Which credential would I need to reset or use in order to connect?

Putty would allow access to the server itself so you would need to use credentials for that server. By default the root user is set to:

User: Pass:

OK thanks I had not made the connection that I needed to use Root. How can I change the Root password from the default?

Once logged in as root, try: It will ask you to enter the new pass twice for confirmation. Don't forget it, otherwise we will need to boot from a livecd to reset it!