Changes between Version 15 and Version 16 of QuickStartGuide

Timestamp:

03/27/08 12:47:42 (5 years ago)

Author:

divagater

Comment:

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QuickStartGuide

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-The path to the event broker module and config file which you will install next.
+The path to the event broker module and config file which you will install next. This example assumes Nagios is installed in /usr/local/nagios. Adjust the path to suit your installation.
 {{{
 broker_module=/usr/local/nagios/bin/ndomod.o config_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/ndomod.cfg
 }}}
 
-If you want to use performance data from Nagios plugins to create graphs in cacti then set the following parameter. Setting host_perfdata_command and service_perfdata_command is not necessary. The performance data will be written to the NPC database where it can be polled by cacti using the perfdata.php script included with NPC.
+If you want to use performance data from Nagios plugins to create graphs in cacti then set the following parameter.
 {{{
 process_performance_data=1
-}}}  
+}}}
+
+Setting host_perfdata_command and service_perfdata_command is not necessary. The performance data will be written to the NPC database where it can be polled by cacti using the perfdata.php script included with NPC.
 
 == Installing/Configuring NDO2DB ==
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 NOD2DB is part of the NDOUTILS package. Nagios hands events off to NDO2DB via the event broker. NDO2DB handles the actual inserts of Nagios data into the NPC tables.
 
-Instructions for compiling, installing, and configuring NDO2DB are included in the README file of the ndoutils package. The README has four sections. Skip the section on setting up the database.
+Instructions for compiling, installing, and configuring NDO2DB are included in the README file of the ndoutils package. The README has four sections. Skip the section on initializing the database.
 
  * Follow the 'COMPILING INSTRUCTIONS' section of the README. 
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-The user/pass you assign needs select, insert, update, delete on all the npc_ tables. ndo2db can communicate with Nagios via unix socket or TCP. Use whatever works for you.
+The user/pass you assign needs select, insert, update, delete on all the npc_ tables. ndo2db can communicate with Nagios via unix socket or TCP. Use whatever works for you (I use the TCP mode).
 
 Note: I had some problems with the ndo2db process dying (regularly) on Fedora Core 7. To get around that I setup the process to respawn via init. If you have trouble with the daemon dying you can add the following line to /etc/inittab