General questions about nagios
Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2020 9:13 am
Hello everyone,
I've recently been promoted to our nagios admin! (yay for promotions!!! sarcasm)
I've done some basic searching but I thought this would be a good place to get clarification on a few things.
Environment consists of centos 6 and centos 7 systems.
A lot of guides give examples of installing nagios core via source code + compiling. I see there is a nagios version 4.4.3 rpm package available via epel repo. is there any reason I would want to compile it instead of just using the rpm?
should i be using nrpe or xinetd?
should the plugins be installed on any/all targets (system i'm monitoring) or only the source (nagios server)
if I wanted to acknowledge an alert via email/sms, is there a plugin I need or is this an "out of the box" feature?
I've recently been promoted to our nagios admin! (yay for promotions!!! sarcasm)
I've done some basic searching but I thought this would be a good place to get clarification on a few things.
Environment consists of centos 6 and centos 7 systems.
A lot of guides give examples of installing nagios core via source code + compiling. I see there is a nagios version 4.4.3 rpm package available via epel repo. is there any reason I would want to compile it instead of just using the rpm?
should i be using nrpe or xinetd?
should the plugins be installed on any/all targets (system i'm monitoring) or only the source (nagios server)
if I wanted to acknowledge an alert via email/sms, is there a plugin I need or is this an "out of the box" feature?