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Nagios 2.6 Basic Configuration

Overview

Nagios is an application that monitors any device on a network that is addressable. It is easily configured to monitor a servers availability on the network from just simple TCP/IP ping requests, to more advanced service monitors such as http, dns, and telnet. With plugins it can also monitor health status of devices such as CPU load, memory utilizaton and drive usage.

Before nagios can be configured it needs to be installed. That documentation can be found here: Nagios 2.6 Installation on Ubuntu 6.06 Linux

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