Nagios XI on Gentoo (Pre-purchase help)

[bobb_wu]

Hi there, this my first post. My search for "gentoo" on this board got me only 4 threads, so I thought I would ask for help. My organization is considering purchasing Nagios XI, and we are installing the demo to evaluate it. We will use one of the CentOS VMs for the central server, but the production boxes that need monitoring are Gentoo. Please note that there is no chance of migrating away from Gentoo.

The Nagios XI Adminstrator Guide shows that there is support in Yum and Apt repositories, and I see that Gentoo has the open source Nagios Core and NRPE available in Portage. Is there already a guide for installing the XI client on Gentoo?

Or is it simple enough that I could install NRPE and make some scripted config changes to give it the advantages of the XI series?

Someone please inform my noob self,
Bobb

[scottwilkerson]

While I am not very familiar with Gentoo I would assume you should be able to install the NRPE package from Portage without problem.

I'm not sure if the portage package will run nrpe under xinetd or not, but if it is running under xinetd you will need to add your XI server IP to /etc/xinetd.d/nrpe in the only_from field

If not you will add the IP to allowed_hosts in the nrpe.cfg

Once the client is setup you can add the host and services in XI using the NRPE wizard.