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Nagios is an excellent tool that can be used to monitor your systems and devices. For more detailed information check out the main Nagios site : Nagios.org

The scope of this howto is to give specific installation tips for Nagios running on openSUSE 11.x (should also work on openSUSE 10.3 and 11.1). Another aim is to give you an easy way to get graph history setup and more.

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This writeup will show how to install eDirectory 8.8.3 on SLES 10 and configure it for an existing or new tree.

SLES 10 SP2 is a very robust server OS that can easily be setup with eDirectory services. With this the server can also be utilized as base for other Novell products.

The advantage here is that you can use SLES to build dedicated servers running Groupwise, IDM, Zenworks* and other Novell products without the need for installing OES2 services, meaning less overhead and a smaller footprint.

NOTE: if your product needs NCP, LUM or other specific OES services, or you are possibly planning to install OES products later on, then it's best to set the server up using the OES2 add on.

* UPDATE: after having issues on two servers with the ZenWorks 7 novell-zmgserv failing to start and thus issues with the pxe environment I'd recommend installing ZenWorks 7 components on a 32 bit SLES base. The install of eDirectory and the SLES base will be the same as described here with that difference of using the 32 bit versions of the install iso's.