NagiosXI on Ubuntu.

[gavinh]

Guessing by the installers immediate tripping my server being Ubuntu, it's not a supported OS?

[jdalrymple]

You guessed correctly. We have a very low-priority campaign to get Debian like flavors supported, but mainstream feature requests come first.

[gavinh]

Pretty sure i've read on w3tech recently that Debian distributions have a much larger market share of deployed web servers than Redhat based distributions.

Leaves me with other monitoring solution, cheers.

[jdalrymple]

Debian distributions have a much larger market share of deployed web servers than Redhat based distributions

So?

We as a company love feedback, what is the problem with using a RedHat based distribution in your enterprise? I remember the days of enterprises having a standardized Linux distribution, they quickly fell when their storage devices ONLY supported SLES or some other such. FWIW, our biggest competitor doesn't support Ubuntu either, they instead support only Windows. Is that truly preferred? Our 2nd biggest competitor supports many OS's, including 2 flavors of Linux, RedHat and SLES. I'd be surprised to find an enterprise that has succeeded in implementing more than 5 specialty application bundles but still has a standardized Linux flavor.

Most of our customers have a vSphere or some other virtualization infrastructure that can support our OVF deployment. This abstracts the need to know anything about what flavor of Linux is running under the hood - the whole point of NagiosXI. Core can be installed on (just about) any version of Linux, but with NagiosXI we want to make the installation and maintenance easy for the user. The way to do this is to focus our efforts on 1 (or very few similar, CentOS and Oracle Linux are indeed supported) distribution so that we can make updating and maintaining seamless for them without spending hundreds of hours in our development environment doing:

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NagiosXI is focused on the front end experience and we hope that our users don't care about the mechanics in the background. For the users that wish to care about what's going on in the background, I guess they'll have to learn the who to replace apt-get with yum. If your policy is strictly to not run RHEL, or another EL like distribution, then you're probably right - NagiosXI is not for you, at least not today.