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agent install only to be used on a clean installed system

Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2015 12:39 pm
by jwahl
When I begin the installation of the Nagios agent, I get this message "IMPORTANT: This script should only be used on a clean installed system:". The system I'm monitoring is most definitely not a clean install. Is this accurate? How do you install agents on existing systems?? I'm very wary of this since the system I want to monitor is a production system and downtime would be terrifying. Especially on a Friday..

Re: agent install only to be used on a clean installed syste

Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2015 1:59 pm
by lmiltchev
What is the agent that you are trying to install, linux agent (NRPE + nagios plugins), NCPA, etc.? What do you currently have installed on this system?

Re: agent install only to be used on a clean installed syste

Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2015 2:24 pm
by jwahl
lmiltchev wrote:What is the agent that you are trying to install, linux agent (NRPE + nagios plugins), NCPA, etc.? What do you currently have installed on this system?
The agent is linux-nrpe-agent. Installed on the server is pretty much just APACHE+MySQL and CPanel

Re: agent install only to be used on a clean installed syste

Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2015 2:35 pm
by lmiltchev
You shouldn't have any issues installing the linux agent using the steps, outlined in this document:

http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... _Agent.pdf