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QUESTION POSED ON: 23 March 2009
We wanted to install Nagios for one of our clients to monitor around 200 Network devices, 200 Windows boxes and 200 Solaris/Unix/Linux boxes. We wanted to install it on Linux. My question regards that on some servers they say:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 4) and N & S setup - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5 (Tikanga)

But, what is Nahant and Tikanga?

I want to know what are Linux OS versions and on which hardware they can be installed. Also, please recommend the hardware and OS recommendation for installing Nagios for our environment


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Regarding Nahant and Tikanga - they are just code names for the Red Hat releases. Red Hat is not the only one that does this – Fichte is the code name for openSUSE. Debian has code names named after Toy story characters. Regarding the hardware – for all practical purposes, the only requirement of running Nagios, is a Linux (or Unix) box and a C compiler. Nagios will run on all the popular Linux distributions - so you don't need to concern yourself with a specific flavor of distribution. CPU requirements are minimal and you should not have a problem with any kind of x86 hardware. I would get at least a quad-core with 2 GB Ram and plenty of disk. You should also know that Nagious offers many support options, from phone, to email, to on-line to on-site support and custimized programs programs as well. Go to the new Nagios support portal for details.


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