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Originally Posted by dguitar

Well I had a SPARC box sitting in a lab collecting dust, so I figured I'll try this out, and I needed a Nagios box there anyways. I've been using nagios for a few years, but never touched RRDTools or PNP4Nagios.

Nagios is an awesome product

Just a few things I'd like to add to your AWESOME guide.

In your ./configure for your plugins - you just need --with-mysql, don't add in the = sign + path. As you can see from the print out of your plugins, check_mysql isn't in there. Also you have a typo in that configure command, the last word should be 'snmpgetnext' instead of 'snmpgetnetxt'.

Fixed the typo - thx
MySql - I could never get the plugin to compile.. just never fixed the guide..

I had a lib missing, not the one you had (libgcc_s.so.1), even after the crle commands. I just created a sym link so that the lib would be in the folder. Might not be the best solution but it worked.

I tried symlinks at first (in a sparse root zone) but kept running into
issues..
Essentially, PHP made me go to a full root zone and crle did pretty
much solve all the issues..

I had a lot of trouble getting RRDTools to complie so I just installed the one on SunFreeware which was 1.2.19. Worked fine.

I also tried that route but got errors compiling pnp4nagios...
the cgilib is what got me in compiling rrdtool-1.2.9

I'm not a Solaris admin, and had a lot of problems with the pkg-get stuff. I ended up just downloading the packages from SunFreeware.

pkg-get installs in /usr/bin/ so it *has* to be installed in the global zone
it is just a tool to automate the download process nothing more..
I have also done the same thing when pkg-get doesn't work..

Note Here: pkg-get will also let update a package in place very
easily

Now I just need to figure how to actually use PNP4Nagios to my benefit... lol

It generates some nice graphs when you just want an overview..

Thanks again for writing this great Guide!

No Problem...
Thanks for all the input..!!

I am going to redo my installation with a few more features and
will post the next guide here..

rk