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Cannot do a full install of Nagios XI

Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 1:08 pm
by diegolima
Hello,

I'm currently in the process of evaluating some monitoring tools and Nagios XI is one of them. I was able to get the VM running, however in order to make sure we'll be able to use it in production I proceeded to a full install. I followed the manual install guide on http://library.nagios.com/library/produ ... -nagios-xi but it seems that the informed package is not suitable for a new, fresh install as it does not contain many files (such as the .cfg files for nagios core). I did follow exactly what was instructed on the manual.

I tried to install twice: first on a x86_64 CentOS 5.4 (clean install and fully updated) and then on a i386 CentOS 5.4 (also a clean install and fully updated). The result was the same.

After install the nagios daemon would not start as it was missing some .cfg files. Later on I tried copying them from my functional VM and nagios daemon did start, but I could not access the core configuration page from nagiosxi (it would just be blank).

I've attached the output from the last install (i386 CentOS 5.4).

Thank you a lot.

Re: Cannot do a full install of Nagios XI

Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 5:37 pm
by mmestnik
I believe after the install you are then to connect to the webserver and configure the Nagios server via the GUI. This will create the files necessary ;)

Re: Cannot do a full install of Nagios XI

Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 10:43 am
by diegolima
Hi,

I did access the GUI after install and that's exactly when I got the error - I wasn't able to save the configuration as it said there were errors in the configuration files.

Re: Cannot do a full install of Nagios XI

Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 11:38 pm
by mmestnik
Did you follow the initial setup process(http://<server>/) or did you jump directly into accessing the Nagios Configuration GUI?

Re: Cannot do a full install of Nagios XI

Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 8:30 am
by diegolima
mmestnik wrote:Did you follow the initial setup process(http://<server>/) or did you jump directly into accessing the Nagios Configuration GUI?
I did access http://[server ip]/ and completed the steps. After that I got to the login screen, logged in as nagiosadmin and then tried to set up a simple monitor, which was where I noticed the error for the first time

Re: Cannot do a full install of Nagios XI

Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 11:44 am
by mmestnik
Hmm,
Can you re-run the following and post the output?

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( set -x; . ./1-prereqs; )
The '. ' is important.

Re: Cannot do a full install of Nagios XI

Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 12:02 pm
by mmestnik
I can't see how this could be your problem.

Is /tmp on another FileSystem from ~root/? Did the mv perhaps change mods, it has a copy/delete function for crossing FileSystyems.

Did you miss Z-webroot?