Nagios configuration tools

though nagios is a nifty tool, setting up the equipment to be monitored is a real painful process. of course this is not the tools issue, it is just laziness on my part, kind of dislike filling up a config file using vi and punching in ip address etc..

so my laziness lead me on a quest for finding out if there are simpler methods of doing this...

ahhh a plethora of tools each with it own quirks in configuration.

the first one it tried out was nagmin, nagat talked about it last time. still not sure about using this.

then i tried nagisoweb

then i tried fruity , this one seem to be the way to go...very simple to use, product is still in the initial stages. (i had downloaded .51 version and then i saw .60 and will working on this, 0.65 was released) .THIS WOULD BE THE PRODUCT TO KEEP AN EYE OUT.

A funny name for a product but it is really doing what it is supposed to. Thanks Fruity!

Nagios

ah i have been breaking my heart out on nagios for the last few day, i finally got it working. by the end of setting up on host(manual config of the files) to be monitored i kind of figured that i need to have in some tool to simplify the configuration management.

the next step to figure out how to get nagmin to work. i have finally got it to come uptill the webmin interface. now i need to figure out how to get the system details into it. hey by the way nagmin is a webmin module for network management. somewhere along the line it uses nmap,rrdtools etc.

the third tool connected to nagios which i am working on is Nagat. have got it up and running. only thing i need to do is set up the file permissions on the config files.Nagat is a nagios adminstration tool

this has been one tough nut to crack. possibly because in my old age i kind of figured out that i could work this module without going through the configuration instructions. ofcourse i learnt otherwise.


nifty set of tools. will post more details of this soon.

of course all this is running on a gentoo solaris distribution.