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NagiosVMA posted: Jun 5, 2006 12:32 AM

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May 10, 2006
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NagiosVMA, service, host & network monitoring in 10 minutes.

Re: NagiosVMA

1. Jun 6, 2006 4:43 PM in response to: VMTN Admin
Click to view Judge-Dredd's profile Novice 8 posts since
Jun 6, 2006
What does the appliance do and what unique value does it provide to the intended audience:
Another Nagios appliance. Configured in under 10 minutes.

Innovative use of virtualization technology:
none.

Size of the appliance relative to functionality and performance:
Too big at over 300MB. There is another Nagios appliance closer to 100MB. With the number of sub 100MB appliances, I see no reason for this appliance to be so large.

Comments:
The appliance should be smaller, but would be my first choice for download if I was looking for a Nagios appliance. I'm sold on the 10 Minute Config.

Note : This review is based only on the appliance description, not on the actual appliance

Re: NagiosVMA

2. Jun 12, 2006 9:52 PM in response to: VMTN Admin
Click to view sixshooter1973's profile Lurker 1 posts since
Mar 8, 2006
A free Network Sniffer sounds good to me!!! Great Idea. Will post again after testing out this appliance.

Re: NagiosVMA

3. Jun 16, 2006 12:12 PM in response to: Judge-Dredd
Click to view entisys's profile Lurker 5 posts since
Apr 13, 2005
Innovative use of virtualization technology:
none.
In response to that, I would counter and say, "without virtualization technology, how would you get this operable in 10 minutes or less"

Size of the appliance relative to functionality and
performance:
Too big at over 300MB. There is another Nagios
appliance closer to 100MB. With the number of sub
100MB appliances, I see no reason for this appliance
to be so large.
I agree. I'm working on reducing the size; I could, for example, remove VM Tools, and reduce it by almost 50mb. (tools install requires OS source libraries to be installed)

Comments:
The appliance should be smaller, but would be my
first choice for download if I was looking for a
Nagios appliance. I'm sold on the 10 Minute Config.

Glad to hear that it would be your first choice...


Note : This review is based only on the appliance
description, not on the actual appliance

To bad you didn't try it out before reviewing it. Please try it out; it's impressively quick and easy to use.

Re: NagiosVMA

4. Jun 21, 2006 7:20 PM in response to: VMTN Admin
Click to view tsavoie's profile Lurker 1 posts since
Apr 20, 2005
This is a great idea for the beginning Nagios user.

We have been using Nagios for a few years and have extensive configuration files. I'm going to try to install our conf files directly into etc to see how Monarch handles them.

One problem that I have run into is that SAMBA, or at least a SMBCLIENT equivalent, is not installed. We use check_disk_smb plugin to connect to Windows Servers to monitor free space.

Re: NagiosVMA

5. Jun 27, 2006 1:25 PM in response to: VMTN Admin
Click to view Justin White's profile Lurker 3 posts since
Jun 27, 2006
Username: root
Password: nagios

Wrong. Password is... root

Re: NagiosVMA

6. Jun 27, 2006 1:41 PM in response to: Justin White
Click to view entisys's profile Lurker 5 posts since
Apr 13, 2005
Username: root
Password: nagios

Wrong. Password is... root


Hi Justin,
We're quite sure the password is nagios.

Are you sure you are commenting on the correct appliance?

Maybe you accidentally changed it somehow?

Or perhaps the torrent has been tampered with?

We'll be posting a new link for downloads tonight.

Re: NagiosVMA

7. Jun 27, 2006 4:39 PM in response to: VMTN Admin
Click to view Steve_Goldsmith's profile Lurker 3 posts since
Jan 9, 2006
Has anybody had any luck converting this to ESX. I am getting unknow OS installed errors.

Thanks

Steve

Re: NagiosVMA

8. Jun 28, 2006 7:42 AM in response to: VMTN Admin
Click to view hawkeye1101's profile Lurker 4 posts since
Jul 10, 2005
Curious how someone can decide to rate this without actually running it.
It is an awesome appliance. This is a quick kill for anyone who wants a real nagios monitoring setup running quickly.
With the defualt intro page with links to Nagios and Monarch, and password info right there, things just couldn't be simpler.

The Monarch frontend is very nice configuration tool although the inherent complexity (and resultant power) of Nagios remains.

Thanks to entisys for providing this VM.
We have been running nagios 1.x for several years. This is an easy way to figure out the migration to 2.x we will be doing soon.
And yes indeed the root password is nagios as advertised.

Re: NagiosVMA

9. Jun 28, 2006 9:55 AM in response to: entisys
Click to view Justin White's profile Lurker 3 posts since
Jun 27, 2006
Downloaded it again and password is nagios.

Re: NagiosVMA

10. Jun 28, 2006 9:56 AM in response to: Justin White
Click to view Justin White's profile Lurker 3 posts since
Jun 27, 2006
No gui?

Re: NagiosVMA

11. Jun 29, 2006 9:06 AM in response to: Justin White
Click to view hawkeye1101's profile Lurker 4 posts since
Jul 10, 2005
Read the description again. It tells you what to do!
You don't need a gui on the appliance, it would be a waste of time and resources. Point your browser at the IP address that the VM obatains and reports above the login prompt when it boots.

Re: NagiosVMA

12. Jul 6, 2006 12:03 PM in response to: hawkeye1101
Click to view david.marshall's profile Enthusiast 49 posts since
Oct 27, 2004
I can also confirm the initial password was 'nagios'.

I'm not sure why people are questioning the usefulness, unless they are questioning the same thing on many of these other appliances.

In fact, knowing how long and tedious it is to setup a base Linux machine and then installing the Nagios application on top of that, I found this an extremely useful appliance. I can't remember how long it actually took to get it up and running, but 10 minutes didn't seem like that far off the mark. Kudos!

Re: NagiosVMA

13. Jul 12, 2006 5:53 AM in response to: VMTN Admin
Click to view TomBa's profile Lurker 1 posts since
Jul 11, 2006
Edit: Deleted. Irrelevant question.

Message was edited by:
TomBa

NagiosVMA under VMware Server?

14. Jul 18, 2006 6:00 AM in response to: VMTN Admin
Click to view agesop's profile Lurker 1 posts since
Jul 18, 2006
Hi all,

does anybody got this Appliance running under the new VMware Server 1.0.0?
Can't get the Machine booting. Even BIOS does not appear.

Any Ideas?

thx

Dirk
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