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Triton installation instructions
These are the Project Triton installations instructions. Triton is a Nagios based monitoring solution. It also uses several supporting packages to create a comprehensive solution of an enterpise class monitoring system. Such packages are MRTG, RRDtool, Syslog, SNMP. Since several subsystems must operate together to produce an effective monitoring solution, Triton is not as easy to install as an average software package. Nagios is also not that easy to configure. So, you have been warned, if you are in for a quick install and fly, you may be surpised. Setting up and operating takes time and effort! The instructions below try to minimize as much as possible both the effort and time spent.

My system is based on the following:

Linux Fedora Core 4 (updates are applied weekly)
Dell Optiplex GX270 with 512MB memory and 40GB of disk space (I have found no problems yet with this set up; I am monitoring now some 100 systems a number which is constantly on the rise with services increasing at a rate twice that of the machine count)
Apache 2.0.54

I very much prefer installing systems in their RPM formats whenever I can get hold of good RPM packages. For obvious reasons ie I do not have to compile, create users and groups, directories or worry where each piece of the package will go. And then if the packager follows my OS convention, then everything I install will have a logical structure to it which has already been taken care for me. I do not need to worry about it. Then the icing on the cake is that I can upgrade the system by simply saying so using my favourite method (ex yum upgrade). I only revert to tar.gz installs only if I have to. Therefore the following install instructions are based on RPM packages of Nagios and its related companions. You can get the RPM packages from here. I have also begun making my own Nagios RPMs for Fedora Core Linux. I will be using these RPMs for the Triton project.

Preparations and Prerequisites
Preparation of the system that will be running Triton is essential.

OS install
File systems
Web server
NTP
extra packages required

Install procedure
Get the latest version for Triton from the download area. Unzipping and untarring will give you several RPM packages you can use to install Triton.

If you are planning to do a common install (which installs both the Nagios monitoring engine and the Web interface then you will need both the nagios and the nagios-www RPM. Also the nagios-plugins are necessary in order to create a working monitor.