[Bug 176613] Review Request: Nagios - System / network monitoring application

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Summary: Review Request: Nagios - System / network monitoring application


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=176613





------- Additional Comments From paul at xtdnet.nl  2006-01-06 11:30 EST -------
Also, be aware that people will run nagios-plugins using a single nagios config
entry on multiple machines. So it is very important that @USER1@ will work on
all architectures. This is a limitation of nagios, but the nagios-plugins should
accomodate those. What I have done is:

install in /usr/lib/nagios/plugins
create a softlink of /var/lib/nagios to /usr/lib/nagios
create a softlink of /usr/lib/nagios/plugins to /usr/lib/nagios/libexec

also: {_sbindir}/useradd -d %{_datadir}/%{name}

I am not sure what _datadir resolves to, but I believe either /usr/lib/ or
/var/lib, which means that you've put nagios' homedir in the same place as the
plugins. Since ssh checks to see if the user is owning his own homedir, this
requires nagios to have read/write to the plugins directory. I think it is
better to have nagios' homedir elsewhere (eg in /home/nagios), so that it can
have readonly access to its plugins, while not breaking automated logins with
ssh for remote plugin execution.

Additionally, /home can be NFS mounted, so that the ssh key distribution works 
over a large set of machines without the need to manually install nagios' ssh
key everywhere in /usr/lib/nagios or /var/lib/nagios (if that is not nfs
mounted, since it could be that there is a mix of linux/distro/OSes around the
network so that /usrlib/nagios cannot easilly be an NFS export)

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