How to Setup and configure Nagios

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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.

2.0 Server Installation

This guide will provide you with instructions on how to install Nagios from source (code) on Fedora 13 and have it monitoring your local and client machines.

2.1 Features available after instalation

• Nagios and the all plugins will be installed underneath /usr/local/nagios

• Nagios will be configured to monitor a few aspects of your local system (CPU load, disk usage, etc.)

• The Nagios web interface will be accessible at http://localhost/nagios/

• Monitor Nagios clients