Looking for advice on how to use Nagios as a ping board

[ohilveti9]

My work monitors a few hundred different ip addresses using a paid for service and were looking into moving to something free to use like Nagios. All we really need is for it to shoot us an email anytime a host is unavailable for longer than 20 minutes. Sounds simple enough right?

My biggest problem is that I'm coming into Nagios without ever using it before and when reading through the documentation it seems like 90% of what is offered goes above and beyond what we need from it. I was able to set up a test environment for it and so now all I need (or atleast all I think I need) is to setup the .cfg file for all the various IP addresses I want monitored.

Any advice on where I could find some simple instructions on doing this? I've done some research for the last few hours and read through the Nagios site's documentation so I don't think it will be complicated, but the majority of what they talk about simply won't be used by my organization. I'm hoping someone could point me towards something more concise.

Thanks in advanced!

[benjaminsmith]

HI,

Welcome to the Nagios Community forum. So yeah, Nagios Core can handle that no sweat. That said, there is a learning curve to Nagios Core so it will take some time to get everything set up. Nagios XI would have more setup tools if that's an option for your company.

For simple host checks you the check_ping is the only service check you'll need so that's easy.

A few links to get you going:

Installation
https://support.nagios.com/kb/article/n ... ce-96.html

Core Docs
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... index.html

Good Luck!

Benjamin