nagios

[Steven Susbauer]

On Sun, 10 May 2009 16:37:30 -0500, Mark Miller <mr.mcmiller at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> is anyone running nagios?  I have built a home network of four computers  
> and
> thought I'd test out nagios before recommending it to my school's (high
> school) tech department.
>
> I'm NOT a tech-type, just a guy who looks for answers to questions ...
> answers that the real tech people don't have time to research.
>
> Anyway, I got the program and it's dependencies through Snyaptic.  I've
> looked on the internet for something about the software.  I find lots of
> explanations about plug-ins, etc; there is one piece of really critical
> information that I can't find:  how do you get it running?  It doesn't  
> show
> up in the applications, so it's obviously a command line issue.  I just
> can't find the command.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> mcm
>


Read through http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/toc.html - Try to get  
a good understanding of Nagios before you try to configure and set it up.  
It's complex... as the Advice for Beginners says: "Nagios can be tricky to  
configure when you've got a good grasp of what's going on, and nearly  
impossible if you don't. Make sure you read the documentation  
(particularly the sections on "Configuring Nagios" and "The Basics"). Save  
the advanced topics for when you've got a good understanding of the  
basics."

This at least tells you how to get into it though:  
https://wiki.edubuntu.org/Nagios

   Cheers!
     --Steve