Nagios Support Forum

CentOS 5.5
Nagios xi freshly downloaded
Followed the manual installation steps. Not realizing it was going to expect no password on the mysql server a lot of stuff failed that should not have, including the population of the mysql database
I deleted the following directories

• /store
  /root/scripts
  /usr/local/nagios
  /usr/local/nagiosxi
  /var/www/html/*

and tweaked the mysql password in the init.sh file (cacti is also using this server for its database)
I then re-ran thru the installation process and everything went much smoother. There are now contents the mysql db, /usr/local/nagios*, html dir, etc.
I am able to load up the UI and log in with the default nagiosadmin credentials and navigate around.
Certain actions such as enabling notifications are generating mysql error messages


Notifications was not actually enabled. However after trying again I am now no longer getting any mysql errors and it appears to be working. Notifications are enabled. I was able to change the email recipient and then send a test email successfully. Any reason to fear future issues of this nature?

The default settings for nagiosadmin are to not use Nagiosxi for notifications. Switch the user to using the xi_contact_generic template.