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Just had a couple of quick questions in regards to Nagios xi and rhel 6. I was told by sales that rhel6 is supported for Nagios xi (server side) and got the instructions for setting this up.

The sales rep however was unable to tell me if the nrpe agent (remote server monitoring side) is supported by rhel 6. Does the nrpe agent for Nagios xi run on rhel 6? Where can I find the documentation to do this?

Lastly, If we were to purchase Nagios xi, what functionality is included with this as opposed to the free version?

Thanks,
Nick

hubie wrote: The sales rep however was unable to tell me if the nrpe agent (remote server monitoring side) is supported by rhel 6. Does the nrpe agent for Nagios xi run on rhel 6? Where can I find the documentation to do this?

It will be the same as the first five lines of what they gave you for xi - you just won't need to do the rrdtool-perl and PHP timezone bits. (Hopefully we'll get all of this incorporated into our install scripts soon.)

hubie wrote: Lastly, If we were to purchase Nagios xi, what functionality is included with this as opposed to the free version?

Do you mean the free trial of xi, or compared to Nagios Core? As for the trial of xi, it is limited to 60 days of use, and does not allow usage of add-on components or much of the reporting functionality. Compared to Core, you have those two things, plus all of the configuration wizards, included graphing, and management interface things as visible in the xi trial/demo.

Thanks for the update. I'll test this out in rhel 6.

As for the other question, I had assumed (very probably incorrectly) that there was a free version, not a trial version, of Nagios xi. If this is the case, what benefits are gained by paying for Nagios xi as opposed to using the free version? I see there is a free version for small environments (less than 7 hosts). So I guess my questions are these:

Is there a free open source version of Nagios xi for environments larger than say 10 hosts that is not the 60 day trial/eval?

If so, What benefits are achieved by paying for Nagios xi as opposed to using the free version?

Thanks again,
Nick

Is there an actual guide for this? Even with what the sales person gave me for instructions, they're very vague and already are not valid. Can you point me to some legit documentation for doing this?

hubie wrote:I see there is a free version for small environments (less than 7 hosts).

Ah, true. There is that.

hubie wrote:Is there a free open source version of Nagios xi for environments larger than say 10 hosts that is not the 60 day trial/eval?

No. Nagios Core is the free and open source product. Nagios xi is free of cost for up to 7 hosts, and proprietary regardless of installation size.

Is there an actual guide for this? Even with what the sales person gave me for instructions, they're very vague and already are not valid. Can you point me to some legit documentation for doing this? Is there any?

Nick

1. Linux Distribution and version?
2. 32 or 64bit?
3. VMware Image or Manual Install of xi?
4. Are there specials configurations on your system, ie; is Gnome installed? Are you using a proxy? Are you using SSL?

1) Rhel 6
2) 32 bit right now in QA, but will be 64bit in PROD
3) Manual install
4) splunk is installed, otherwise minimal install

We are registered with RHN,

All I'm looking for is an install doc for rhel 6

This is what was sent to me by sales:

Skip running 0-yum.
Install the *EL6* version of EPEL.
Don't do anything for RPMForge (so far).
Manually touch install.yum to simulate runningthat script.
Run the rest of fullinstall as usual.
Yum install rrdtool-perl (this is the only dependency I've found so far that's different).
Set the PHP timezone.
Proceed as usual.


I've skipped 0-yum
I install EL6 ver of EPEL
Did nothing with RPMForge
Manually touched install.yum
Went on to the rest of the install.

Very next step, ran: ./1-prereqs .
Get:
Yum was not installed - run previous script

Also, on the same system, the nrpe agent refuses to install as well.
output:
el6.i686 is not currently supported. Please use CentOS 5 or RHEL 5 (el5) instead.

Just to clarify, right now RHEL 6 is not officially supported yet and our current install script will not work with it. We were hoping to release updated install script that would work with both RHEL 6 and CentOS 6, but CentOS 6 is taking much longer to be released than we had anticipated. If you need a system up and running sooner, I recommend using our pre-installed VM, or manually installing on CentOS 5, or RHEL 5. We will announce it once we've begun supporting RHEL 6, but as of yet our scripts are not ready for it.