Platforms and Software

On all platforms, packages are built against the latest updates (including major fixes and security updates) on the respective operating systems. Therefore, it is suggested that the target platform also has the latest updates.

Opsview runs on the following virtualisation technologies in combination with certified OS / Linux Distribution.

• VMware Player
• VMware Server
• VMware ESX
• Parallels
• Xen Hypervisor
• KVM Hypervisor

Opsview depends on a number of additional software components to function such as MySQL, Apache and Perl. These will be installed as part of your Opsview software installation process, if not already present on the target system.

To avoid problems you must follow these recommendations:

• You should use the latest stable release of required packages, unless otherwise stated in our documentation
• Do not install earlier versions of software than supplied as standard with a supported OS or Linux distribution. Eg: You should not replace MySQL 5.0 with MySQL 4.1
• Do not install software from source code or an unofficial package source since we will not have tested

Opsview presents the administrative and status interface via a web server. Opsview is tested with the following web browsers:

We test on the latest release / patch levels of these browsers and therefore issues may exist with earlier versions that we are unaware of.

The following Agents are available for Opsview. Any Nagios® Core compatible agent should work with Opsview so don't be too concerned if a particular platform is not listed.

If your preferred distribution is not listed we recommend that you create a standard Nagios® Core agent using NRPE.