Nagios Cacti install

chet · Post by **chet** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 12:56 pm

Hi All, new poster here and new to Nagios and Cacti.

I have done search on these forums but unable to find the info that I'm after, I'm running Ubuntu 8.4 with Nagios 3.6 installed, I would now like to get Cacti installed along side to complement it, however I can not find a install guide that will carry me through.

I have seen the guide for Ubuntu 8.4 but that does not mention the Nagios DB at all, does Cacti talk to the Nagios DB at all?

Any information you can give me would be great

Cheers

Chet

Howie · Post by **Howie** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 1:44 pm

chet wrote:does Cacti talk to the Nagios DB at all?

Cacti by itself doesn't, no.

There are a few different plugins that offer various levels of integration, but the first step for all of it will be a standalone Cacti install on the server.

chet · Post by **chet** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 1:54 pm

Do you mean remove Nagios first then install Cacti or just install Cacti?

Thanks for the reply

Chet

Howie · Post by **Howie** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 2:48 pm

chet wrote:Do you mean remove Nagios first then install Cacti or just install Cacti?

Thanks for the reply

Chet

Just install Cacti. They shouldn't get in each other's way.

chet · Post by **chet** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 4:01 pm

Cheers I will give it a try

Chet

chet · Post by **chet** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 7:02 pm

Well that went well, thaks very much for a cracking system.

So now on to the Nagios stuff, I guess I need NPC but also I noticed that I need the Plugin Architecture v2.2.

Will that get me on my merry way or are there others I should be looking at.

Am going to look through the forums now to see what I can source myself, but a little direction would be great

Cheers

Chet

Howie · Post by **Howie** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 7:17 pm

chet wrote:Well that went well, thaks very much for a cracking system.

So now on to the Nagios stuff, I guess I need NPC but also I noticed that I need the Plugin Architecture v2.2.

Will that get me on my merry way or are there others I should be looking at.

Am going to look through the forums now to see what I can source myself, but a little direction would be great

I believe NPC is what you want - I don't really like Nagios much, so I don't know too much there. NMID is another younger alternative to NPC.

You will definitely need the PA installed though, for any plugins to work. This will allow you to use thold for threshold alerting within Cacti too, amongst many other things.

chet · Post by **chet** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 7:20 pm

Thanks for your support here, not many forums answer you back in the same hour you post never mind the same day

Cheers

Chet

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