nagios

[anthony baldwin]

Steven Susbauer wrote:
> 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
> 


That sounds like good advice.

Also, to find a program, usually just doing
whereis nagios
at terminal should give you something like
/usr/bin/nagios
(or whereever it is).
If it is in your $PATH (and /usr/bin is), then you could just type the 
name at terminal to run the program.

/tony

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