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I am evaluating Nagios xi for a large install and have a question on installing the Linux agent on a SuSe 10 server. Can anyone tell me the best way to modify the scripts in the linux-nrpe-agent folder on the client to install the client on the SuSE box? Since we do not use yum, the scripts will not work and not sure if all of the required rpms are the same for SuSE as for RH.

Thanks,

Steve

We haven't yet tried a SuSE installation, so it will be a bit of a "document as you go" thing at this time. We are looking to add to our list of supported platforms for the Agent all the time though, so hopefully this will be easier in the future.

Hey Tony ,

Thanks for the reply...

Guess that kinda puts a damper on testing Nagios xi to buy for a 7000 client SuSE environment

Indeed it does. I'm not sure if you are the prospective client we were talking about earlier this week or a separate one, but we were looking at getting into this soon for precisely that reason. Do you have a particular timeframe you need to work within? (Obviously the sooner the better, but if you have any specific constraints to share that would be good to know.) Certainly we can let you know when some progress is made for SuSE support.

The Agent has been tested and used on almost every platform, just think it works on HPux, Sun, AIX... So you are not going to have a hard time putting it on any form of Linux, including SUSE.

Though we haven't tested it or documented it since we started documenting and testing things in January.

The current agent is NRPE, born 1999, and is widely used and tested by Nagios Core users(the Free GNU Stuff).

I have used core for a bit, we have built a small Nagios 3.X environment here. When we started talking about replacing our current monitoring solution, Nagios was/is a front line option for that. Core works great but we wanted to test xi to see if would be better for our situation.

I assume that since we had SuSE clients running on 3.x, I could use the 3.x linux client ( just NRPE correct? ) but I assume this would not give me full xi usability unless there is some manual config I could do in xi.

As far as time frame, I would expect us to have a solution in place ( at least rolling out) no later than the end of the year.

Thanks again for the prompt replies,

Steve

BTW Tony,

We may be the client you spoke about. I was speaking earlier this week for a while with Ethan Galstad from sales.

Steve

The Nagios xi "Agent" is actually just a collection of other things, most of which overlap with Nagios Core, yes. Specifically:
NRPE (same package as used with core)
NSCA (not actually used, but shipped - will be replaced with something else soon anyway)
Nagios Plugins (same as used with core)
Extra Plugins (this part is different - there are a handful of plugins used by a few of our wizards that aren't currently in the standard nagios-plugins package)
Default configuration files for some of the above, including some modifications specific to our wizards
Automagic installation scripts to put all of that in place

Pretty much any system with Apache, PHP, Perl, and a C compiler should be able to handle it; it's just a question of whether things are automatic or not. If you already know how to install NRPE and the stock Nagios Plugins on your system, along with the pre-requisites (Apache, PHP, Perl modules, etc.), then you're 90% of the way there, and just need to copy in the extra plugins (I think all of those are Perl, so don't even need to be compiled), and the configuration file modifications. If you don't know how to do the first part, hopefully we can document that - I'm downloading an openSuSE DVD right now to fuss with.

For xi there is a linux wizard that populates hosts and services, as you know with NRPE you configure service/command names.

Nagios xi just needs the correct config(names must match, though I guess the commands could be configured differently) for NRPE to work, the check plugins are also the same.