http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/372
NagiosVMA, service, host & network monitoring in 10 minutes.
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
A free Network Sniffer sounds good to me!!! Great Idea. Will post again after testing out this appliance.
Innovative use of virtualization technology:
none.
In response to that, I would counter and say, "without virtualization technology, how would you get this operable[/u] 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.
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.
Username: root
Password: nagios
Wrong. Password is... root
Username: root
Password: nagios
Wrong. Password is... root
Hi Justin,
We're quite sure the password is nagios[/b].
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.
Has anybody had any luck converting this to ESX. I am getting unknow OS installed errors.
Thanks
Steve
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.
Downloaded it again and password is nagios.
No gui?
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.
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!
Edit: Deleted. Irrelevant question.
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TomBa
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
I had to create a new VM in VMserver.
First, I deleted all the files except the NagiosVMA.vmdk file from the original appliance download.
Second, I created a new Vm in VMWare Server and selected Custom then Linux and "Other Linux'. I gave the new VM the same name 'NagiosVMA' and pointed to the original file where the vmdk file still exists.
Third, when asked about I/O adapters I selected BusLogic and then on the next screen I told the VM wizard to use an existing disk and told it to use the original NagiosVMA.vmdk
After that I was able to boot the VM fine.
Regards
I have been waiting for something like this to show up for about a year! woot!, This is Awesome, I have known for a long time that I wanted to run certain linux apps, but as a network manager coming from a windows background just getting into linux I had a very hard time getting nagios running as well as RT, but I do understand that these apps are the shiznat!, so I thank my lucky stars that VMware appliances came around, and people like you guys release these wonderful appliances ready to roll. It is an incrdible service to the IT community and I thank you again!
Thanks VMware for releasing the player, and thank you too all those who release Appliances. It is so helpful for people like myself.
\- Patrick Mettes
Anyone willing to compare NAgios with Zenoss? My shop has been using Nagios since 1.0. We only have one Linux admin so if he gets hit by the bus this appliance will come in handy. We are on ESX 3.0. Has anyone ran this appliance with ESX?
Hi
Has anybody had any luck converting this to ESX. I am
getting unknow OS installed errors.
Yes i had managed it and its running. Enviroment: ESX 2.5.2 with SAN and VC
The Appliance was running and configured on Windows XP with VMware Server 1. After doing tests i like to move it to our ESX Server. I found various articles, blogs and FAQs.
What i have done in a brief:
On the XP machine i have converted the vmdk file to flat.
vmware-vdiskmanager -r <virtualdisk-source> -t 2 <virtualdisk-target>
i got two files: NagiosVMA.vmdk and NagiosVMA-flat.vmdk
edited NagiosVMA.vmdk and check if the entry ddb.virtualHW ist set to 3.
Then copied(SCP) both files to my /vmimages directory on the ESX. Do not use your vmfs Volume!
Next do an import with vmkfstools, run vmkfstools on the smaller file -- the one that does not include "flat" in its file name.
eg. vmkfstools -i /vmimages/NagiosVMA.vmdk /vmfs/san1/NagiosVMA.vmdk
At last create a new virtual machine on your ESX and configure with existing disk pointing to your imported vmdk file.
startup and go!
keep in mind that the MAC adress will be changed.
And don't forget to install/update vmware-tools, if not you will get frequently messages like
vcpu-0| GuestMsg: Unknown protocol magic number
in your vmware.log
HTH
Bernd
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bedb
Hi there,
1st off, nice job with the VM, actually up and running in 10 minutes
2nd a question... Before I put this 'out there', how can I password protect the Monarch EZ-Config web 'console'??
Thanks in advance for the help... yes i'm new
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