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PLease Help!!! Iam new to Nagios Core. How do i step by step setup Nagios Core to do Hardware Monitoring
I have C7000 Blade Chassis & IBM Servers 3550's
Need Some Installation instructions PLease

Thank You All

What is running on the systems? If you are running a RHEL/CENTOS distro install you could use one of our agents to do this:

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/ ... linux.html

You could alternatively use methods such as SNMP, passive checks, etc..

I am running Suse Linux very new to this. I have installed all the plugins Check_HP and Check_ HP_Bladechassis im not sure how to check and make sure snmp is running on the Nagios side. Also i have enable SNMP on the Blade Chassis

Is there a step by step Doc that setups up everything Im ising Nagios Core

Thanks

qzflsk wrote:im not sure how to check and make sure snmp is running on the Nagios side

Nagios active checks snmp devices with a number of different plugins that do not rely on the snmpd service. What you need to do is make sure snmp is running on the remote hosts.
Can you try running the plugin from the cli on the nagios server?

Great News I have finally got the Monitoring to work. I am using the plugin Check_hp_bladechassis, which does not require HP insight manager to be installed. I notice that that plugin if doing a /debug switch will display everything that the Chassis reports.

I am also noticing that this plugin only displays whats broken or gives an error.
Ex. It display all blades as being ok but when something goes wrong it only display the one error but what about the other devices in the chassis. does the plugin display every device in there and green and then show the Bad device as red

Also are there other plugins that dont require Hp Insight manager to be present

Thanks

Hmm, besides the help output of the plugin that is not entirely apparent, that would probably be a better question for the plugin's developer:

http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Pl ... is/details