17.3 The Installation

Since there are problems with INSERT statements in some tables of the NDOUtils database when MySQL in version 4.0 is used, it is better to use MySQL 5 right from the start.[181] In addition to the MySQL server package (in Debian, "Etch" mysql-server-5.0) and the libraries that are usually selected automatically during the installation of the server package, you also require the accompanying development package (in Debian, "Etch" libmysqlclient15-dev) in order to be able to compile the NDOUtils.

One consequence of the far-reaching integration of the NDOUtils into Nagios is that the version must exactly match that of the Nagios version used. Both Nagios and the NDOUtils define their version status in the source code with the ...

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