Nagstamon: Nagios Status Monitor on Debian Sid

I went looking for a Nagios System Monitor of sorts, hoping for a KDE Plasmoid for my desktop, so that I could have an eye on our work Nagios which would alert me if one of our servers or part of the network went down.

I came across Nagstamon which seems to do the job, and it lives in the System Tray of my KDE 4.3 desktop. Although written for GNOME, it works fine in KDE with a few required packages:

shell$ sudo aptitude update

shell$ sudo aptitude install python-setuptools python2.5 python-gnome2-extras python-lxml librsvg2-common

shell$ wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/nagstamon/nagstamon/nagstamon%200.8.2/nagstamon_0.8.2_all.deb

shell$ sudo dpkg -i ./nagstamon_0.8.2_all.deb

If you're getting an error, "glib.GError: Couldn’t recognize the image file format for file ‘/usr/lib/nagstamon/resources/nagstamon.svg’ " you're missing the package named 'librsvg2-common'.

Many thanks go to the developer of this package, Henri Wahl, and the package for other Linux package formats and whatnot can be found on the Sourceforge page at http://sourceforge.net/projects/nagstamon/files/