{"id":428,"date":"2006-08-14T09:14:50","date_gmt":"2006-08-14T13:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/?p=428"},"modified":"2006-08-14T09:14:52","modified_gmt":"2006-08-14T13:14:52","slug":"groundworknagios-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/14\/groundworknagios-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Groundwork\/Nagios Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"

Awhile back I got interested in Groundwork<\/a> and downloaded two virtual machines, one from Tony Su and one from Ginaluca. The one from Tony Su was a little hard for me to setup initially so I downloaded a second one made by Gianluca. Gianluca’s virtual machine, baywatchos, appealed to me because it used Centos rather than SUSE, he had pre-installed Webmin, and he had prepared it as a virtual machine. For some reason Tony prepared his machine as a virtual disk so I had to read some more of VMware manual to get it to work.<\/p>\n

I ran baywatchos for about a week. It was primarily a training exercise for me so I could become familiar with Groundwork and Nagios. I really don’t  need a network monitor for my small network but I was curious what the network monitor would tell me about my network. Everything looked fine but for a reason I have not figured out I never was able to get Groundwork status and reports to update with the information I could see in Nagios. That was when I decided to go back to Tony Su’s version and see if it worked there.<\/p>\n

Having already setup a nominally working Groundwork\/Nagios system on batwatchos it was easy to move the configuration over to the SUSE version. Groundwork status and reports finally worked as expected. <\/p>\n

My next task was getting email alerts. This was complicated by the lack of a nice email interface like Thunderbird. I wanted to see if the emails were being generated and sent. I ended up relearning Mailx to verify the mail configuration but I still wanted a GUI mail interface. I also wanted to install VMware tools. New software intuitive was not as intuitive as YUM and was further complicated by the fact that I needed the cd-roms to install new software. This is changed in SUSE 10.1 I think. I also needed the gcc compiler to install VMware tools. This is first Linux\/Unix installation that did not install the compiler by default. After messing around for too long with possible shortcut methods, I downloaded the cd-roms for the gcc installation and Thunderbird installation from the Mozilla site. I did find some rpms on the SUSE site for for Thunderbird and Firefox they did not like the library versions in SUSE 10.<\/p>\n

So everything is working. I am getting alerts when my websites get slow or we have network congestion. I learned way too much about YaST. In fact my frustrations with SUSE almost motivated me to try my hand at installing  Open SUSE 10.1. Fortunately I walked away from the edge of the cliff. I still slightly interested in emailing daily reports as a support option but I have to brush up on my Perl LWP debugging to get it to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Awhile back I got interested in Groundwork and downloaded two virtual machines, one from Tony Su and one from Ginaluca. The one from Tony Su was a little hard for me to setup initially so I downloaded a second one made by Gianluca. Gianluca’s virtual machine, baywatchos, appealed to me because it used Centos rather than SUSE, he had … Continue reading “Groundwork\/Nagios Revisited”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4iN3d-6U","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}