| mr_steve | anyone use nagios? | 05:47 |
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| sparklehistory | mr_steve: ask tonyyarusso next time he's around | 06:31 |
| mr_steve | sparklehistory: will do | 06:34 |
| tonyyarusso | mr_steve: I *work* at Nagios, so in theory I know something about it. | 18:31 |
| mr_steve | tonyyarusso: I just started trying to use it, because Zabbix is a bloated pig | 18:32 |
| tonyyarusso | ha, all righty | 18:32 |
| * tonyyarusso hasn't tried zabbix | 18:33 | |
| mr_steve | Zabbix is real nice in some ways, but it's so database-intensive, it's been keeping my system load around 3 | 18:34 |
| mr_steve | so, my question is this; is there such a thing as a good config GUI for nagios, or should I just keep banging out these config files | 18:36 |
| tonyyarusso | Depends how you define "good". | 18:39 |
| tonyyarusso | We use NagiosQL, which is decent, but if you ever look at the code for it your held will explode. | 18:39 |
| mr_steve | that's pretty much how I feel about my current nagios config files | 18:44 |
| mr_steve | I'm getting the hang of it, but I think starting from Ubuntu's default config is confusing me | 18:45 |
| tonyyarusso | how so? Because all of the Nagios documentation is for a hacky CentOS install that breaks FHS guidelines at every turn? | 18:46 |
| mr_steve | yep, pretty much ;) | 18:47 |
| tonyyarusso | yeah....ignore those :P | 18:47 |
| tonyyarusso | Ubuntu's way is right :) | 18:47 |
| mr_steve | agreed. I'm just still figuring out some of the stuff that's already defined in the default configuration | 18:48 |
| mr_steve | I keep finding myself saying "ok, now where is this being defined...?" | 18:49 |
| tonyyarusso | grep ftw! | 18:50 |
| mr_steve | yup | 18:51 |
| mr_steve | i'm also keeping /etc/nagios3/conf.d version controlled, for when I inevitably break things | 18:52 |
| tonyyarusso | good plan | 18:53 |
| mr_steve | yeah, I'm keeping a lot of config files in bzr, pushed to another machine. I rebuilt my laptop a while back and forgot to copy my dotfiles, that pretty much sucked | 18:55 |
| mr_steve | tonyyarusso: any particular gotchas I should be aware of when installing NagiosQL on Ubuntu? | 19:53 |
| tonyyarusso | mr_steve: No idea - never done it :P | 19:55 |
| mr_steve | heh, well I just found one; the docs say the tarball extracts into it's own subdirectory. It does not. | 19:57 |
| tonyyarusso | lovely | 19:58 |
| mr_steve | yup. I should really know better than to explode random tarballs in my webroot, I suppose | 20:00 |
| Obsidian1723 | well, that's better than the doc saying there is tar in yer lungs. | 20:00 |
| Obsidian1723 | ;) /snark | 20:00 |
| mr_steve | haha | 20:01 |
| Obsidian1723 | Hmmmm looks like AT&TUverse doesn't want to support Linux. http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2010/12/at-blocks-linux-configuration.html | 22:30 |
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