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I installed the NagiosXI virtual machine on an ESX server and powered on . Changed the root password, changed the mysql password, assigned and IP addres. After that when I access the web site from another machine, I get the web page to access nagios link on it, but it goes straight to the logon screen. It does not give the install portion so that I can set up admin user and password. Any idea how to login or get the install portion. I am using IE8 from another machine. Also how do I login to the local host from the CentOS machine .Please help.

Senoy

Notes from phone conversation:

Also tried with Firefox, same result. He's seen the initial configuration screen that he should be getting in documentation & such, but never gets that on his system.

My suspicion is that we may have accidentally posted a VM image that was already initialized - trying to confirm that now.

Hmm, nope. I just downloaded the 1.3 VM from the Library, and it works as expected. Perhaps you could just try re-downloading and starting over?

Thank you, I re-convert the VM and it works. It showed up the initial setup screen . But I tried to change the mysql password using mysqladmin, it gave me an error saying that "access denied, you need super privilege for this operation' How do I logged in as a super privilege user , I am new to centos environment.

Senoy

Currently one can not secure the mysql password. We've had this issue brought up before, since applications need access to mysql they would need to know the password. I don't have a list of all where the mysql password lives, however I do know that it's not something you could hope to keep a secret from anyone with local access.

I'm unfamiliar with that error. I'd say it just means you are using the wrong user for mysql. You should be using "mysqladmin -u root -p "...
The default password is "nagiosxi".

Thank you that works!

Senoy