Nagios on Amazon EC2

[sbadru]

We are planning to use the nagios XI as monitoring tool for application , could you please help me to identify the suitable product for Amazon EC2 servers monitoring
when i install nagios XI on Amazon Linux m/c getting below error "ERROR: Could not determine OS. Please make sure lsb_release is installed"

[tmcdonald]

Did you read our EC2 doc?

http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... -Cloud.pdf

If you are just trying to monitor something you don't need to have XI running *on* whatever you are monitoring. You can deploy agents (software) to the machines that need monitoring and keep a single XI server to check all the agents.

[sbadru]

I have created the NagiosXI monitor , but all other nodes are running on Amazon Linux so getting error when install the agent on the nodes , please advise .
>> ./fullinstall
ERROR: Could not determine OS. Please make sure lsb_release is installed.

[tmcdonald]

Exactly which agent are you installing? Can you show me the commands you are running and the output or errors the give?

[sbadru]

I do not find Amazon Linux on the dropdwon list , so have selected the Redhat agent linux-nrpe-agent.tar.gz, do you have any specific agent for amazon linux

[ec2-user@linux-nrpe-agent]$ ./fullinstall
ERROR: Could not determine OS. Please make sure lsb_release is installed.

[sbadru]

Do we need to install NRPE agent on every client node to monitor, if so which is the right agent for AWS EC2 nodes , Please advise.

[tmcdonald]

We'll see how things turn out tomorrow in the quickstart, then if needed we can resume here.

In the meantime to get over the lsb_release issue, see my post here:

http://support.nagios.com/forum/viewtop ... 201#p79464

ADD:

After going through the quickstart it was determined to be an Amazon firewall issue, after that everything seems to be working just fine. Going to close this thread now, but if you need anything else please feel free to start another.