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