[op5-users] where to go from here

[Russell Jennings]

Hi,

I installed merlin on a test box, read through the readme, and it seems like it's up and running. but i'm not sure where to go from here. 

What I want to do now: have a noc and a poller, just to see it work. 
What I want to do eventually : central NOC which has info for all sites, and then pollers at each site to do the checks, ideally, some with a local NOC for that particular hostgroup of hosts.

Also, what IS a peer? i understand a NOC is the headend, the poller does the checks, where does the peer come into play? 

I guess what I'm not sure of, to setup a new poller, would I need to install nagios in full (or just the check plugins?), and then a full blown merlin install? or would the merlin install use the NOC's mysql DB? 

Just a little fuzzy on the specifics i suppose... any input would be greatly appreciated.