New to Nagios - 2 questions

[mocjack]

New to nagios - 2 questions...

1) is the VM image version limited to 1 version and 4 gigs RAM? I read somewhere you need another kernel to bypass this.

2) how hard is the fullblown product to install if I go ahead and obtain a full CentOS server for my project?

TIA!

[tonyyarusso]

1) I'm not sure what you mean by "1 version", but the kernel probably does have the 4GB RAM limitation, as I think it predates PAE being commonplace.

2) Not terribly - you'll just need to run a few scripts in order. See here for instructions: http://library.nagios.com/library/produ ... -nagios-xi

[mocjack]

sorry mistype - I meant 1 "processor"...it is limited to this?

[mocjack]

the install seems pretty straightforward... nothing special in the "gotcha" realm such as specific components of CentOS to install or NOT install? I read some problem with some people who had GNOME installed.

Thanks for the help I am sure these are completely off the wall questions.

[tonyyarusso]

It should support multiple processors in terms of the kernel. Having one processor is in the virtual machine definition, and should be changeable in whatever VMware product you're using.

As for the install, it's tested from a Base install with nothing else. Honestly, we'd never really thought anyone would try it with other things like Gnome on there, but they did.

Also, don't try to do other "setup" types of things ahead of time, in particular setting a root password for MySQL. The scripts expect it all to be pretty vanilla.