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-pnp4nagios for Debian
+PNP4Nagios for Debian
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-The Debian package of PNP4Nagios uses NPCD for an easy installation *and* fast
-processing of performance data.
+We recommend to use bulk mode with NPCD and npcdmod. This will facilitate an
+easy installation and fast processing of performance data. To enable NPCD, set
+'RUN' to 'yes' in /etc/default/npcd.
-Please change the "process_performance_data" statement in
-"/etc/nagios3/nagios.cfg" to "process_performance_data=1".
+In order to enable processing of performance data in Nagios, please change the
+"process_performance_data" statement in "/etc/nagios3/nagios.cfg" to
+"process_performance_data=1".
-Add the following line (without quotes) to "/etc/nagios3/nagios.cfg":
+To register the NPC event broker module (npcdmod), add the following line
+(without quotes) to "/etc/nagios3/nagios.cfg":
"broker_module=/usr/lib/pnp4nagios/npcdmod.o config_file=/etc/pnp4nagios/npcd.cfg"
-Finally reload your Nagios server by "/etc/init.d/nagios3 reload". All
-performance date should be processed.
+Finally reload your Nagios server by running "/etc/init.d/nagios3 reload". All
+performance data should be processed now.
-If you want links to PNP4Nagios for your monitored hosts and services in Nagios
-web frontend just add
+If you want links to PNP4Nagios for your monitored hosts and services in the
+Nagios web frontend just add
- "action_url /pnp4nagios/graph?host=$HOSTNAME$"
to your hosts or host template(s)
- "action_url /pnp4nagios/graph?host=$HOSTNAME$&srv=$SERVICEDESC$"
to your services or service template(s)
+For more information and different modes of operation, see
+<http://docs.pnp4nagios.org/pnp-0.6/config>.
+
-- Sven Velt <sven@velt.de> Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:55:35 +0000