Difference between revisions of "How to Setup and configure Nagios"
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| − | 1.0 About Nagios | + | '''1.0 About Nagios''' |
| − | Nagios is a system and network monitoring application. It watches hosts and services that you specify, and provides critical notifications to administrators, when the system/network performance is being negatively impacted. | + | '''Nagios''' is a system and network monitoring application. It watches hosts and services that you specify, and provides critical notifications to administrators, when the system/network performance is being negatively impacted. |
Nagios was originally designed to run under Linux, but it possessess the capability of being compatible with a host of other OSs as well. | Nagios was originally designed to run under Linux, but it possessess the capability of being compatible with a host of other OSs as well. | ||
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Some of the many features of Nagios include: | Some of the many features of Nagios include: | ||
| − | * | + | * Monitoring of network services (SMTP, POP3, HTTP, NNTP, PING, etc.) |
| − | * | + | * Monitoring of host resources (processor load, disk usage, etc.) |
| − | * | + | * Simple plug-in design that allows users to easily develop their own service checks |
| − | * | + | * Parallelized service checks |
| − | * | + | * Ability to define network host hierarchy using "parent" hosts, allowing detection of and distinction between hosts that are down and those that are unreachable |
| − | * | + | * Contact notifications when service or host problems occur and get resolved (via email, pager, or user-defined method) |
| − | * | + | * Ability to define event handlers to be run during service or host events for proactive problem resolution |
| − | * | + | * Automatic log file rotation |
| − | * | + | * Support for implementing redundant monitoring hosts |
| − | * | + | * Optional web interface for viewing current network status, notification and problem history, log file, etc. |
Revision as of 10:12, 14 November 2010
1.0 About Nagios
Nagios is a system and network monitoring application. It watches hosts and services that you specify, and provides critical notifications to administrators, when the system/network performance is being negatively impacted.
Nagios was originally designed to run under Linux, but it possessess the capability of being compatible with a host of other OSs as well.
Some of the many features of Nagios include:
- Monitoring of network services (SMTP, POP3, HTTP, NNTP, PING, etc.)
- Monitoring of host resources (processor load, disk usage, etc.)
- Simple plug-in design that allows users to easily develop their own service checks
- Parallelized service checks
- Ability to define network host hierarchy using "parent" hosts, allowing detection of and distinction between hosts that are down and those that are unreachable
- Contact notifications when service or host problems occur and get resolved (via email, pager, or user-defined method)
- Ability to define event handlers to be run during service or host events for proactive problem resolution
- Automatic log file rotation
- Support for implementing redundant monitoring hosts
- Optional web interface for viewing current network status, notification and problem history, log file, etc.
