Nagios 2.6 Installation on Ubuntu 6.06 Linux Server
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.
Tags: cpu load, linux, memory utilization, Nagios, service monitors, snmp, ubuntu
