30 May, 2007
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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28 Mar, 2007
Nagios is an open source tool that monitors any device on a network that is IP addressable. I use it extensively on a daily basis at my workplace. 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, telnet, smtp and snmp. With additional plugins it can also monitor health status of devices such as CPU load, memory utilization and drive space consumption.This tutorial is created as a way for me to document the steps I took to install Nagios. There are many ways to install Nagios into a functional system, this just happens to be the way that I got it to work. If you are looking for an easy way to build your own Nagios server follow along and you’ll have your own running in no time.
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27 Mar, 2007
Here is a little glimpse of the next article I’m writing. It’ll be a step-by-step tutorial on installing Nagios on Ubuntu. It’s a little lengthy so it’s taking me a little time to get all the screenshots organized. I’ll get the tutorial out the door as fast as I can. In the meantime, here is a link out to the Nagios web site for more information.
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