Further to my previous post (Ubuntu and Nagios) about installing Ubuntu and Nagios under Microsoft Virtual Server I’m happy to report I’ve hade quite a bit of success after re-creating the Virtual Image. This time I dropped the available RAM down to 384MB from 512MB and switched to virtual IDE instead of virtual SCSI disks. The other option was during the installation of Ubuntu to select the LVM partition installation instead of the default option.

I’ve got a command prompt in Ubuntu and I’ve downloaded that zipped tarball from Nagios - now I’ve got to figure out how to get the zipped tarball across to the Ubuntu server. On AIX I would use SAMBA or FTP so there must be a similar Ubuntu feature. I found this article on installing SAMBA on Ubuntu.

Even easier I found this article on installing Nagios on the Debian Administration website, which just uses the apt-get command:

apt-get install nagios-text

I now have Nagios up and running - all I need to do now is figure out how to get it to a system wide discovery of network nodes!