Is Nagios only for people that compile from source?
by browny_amiga from LinuxQuestions.org on (#59EJD)
I'm setting up Nagios and was pleased to find that Debian has packages for Nagios 4.
But then I found that EVERY tutorial, manual and what have you telling you how to install it is still compiling it from the source code. Not one talks about how easy it is just installing the package.
Why is that? Are these packages so badly maintained?
I don't like the mess that direct compiles and installs (circumventing the package manager) creates on a system, definitely something for a test system, but not for production use.
Currently, I'm stuck with installing Nagios4 on Debian Stable (Buster), without a web interface that works and no instructions how to get that going. Are there any instructions to how the package works? Is there a separate package for the web interface?
Additional configuration required to get the web server up and going? (It installs Apache, I get the debian default page, but going to [hostname]/nagios gives back a 404 error.
I do know that you have to write all configs in text, but I would at least like a visual dashboard.
What am I missing here?
But then I found that EVERY tutorial, manual and what have you telling you how to install it is still compiling it from the source code. Not one talks about how easy it is just installing the package.
Why is that? Are these packages so badly maintained?
I don't like the mess that direct compiles and installs (circumventing the package manager) creates on a system, definitely something for a test system, but not for production use.
Currently, I'm stuck with installing Nagios4 on Debian Stable (Buster), without a web interface that works and no instructions how to get that going. Are there any instructions to how the package works? Is there a separate package for the web interface?
Additional configuration required to get the web server up and going? (It installs Apache, I get the debian default page, but going to [hostname]/nagios gives back a 404 error.
I do know that you have to write all configs in text, but I would at least like a visual dashboard.
What am I missing here?