Help for a beginner

[Ronnie]

Hi All,

I have just installed Nagios Core Version 3.4.4 onto a virtual machine running Centos6.3.

Now I am a total beginner and have no idea how to start monitoring servers in our network - I have been tasked with setting this up and have no idea how to do this??

Can anyone help with a real basic step by step guide for a total beginner?

Cheers,
Ronnie.

[redcat]

Once you've got nagios installed, you have to configure nagios' config files to define the machines you want to test, the tests you want to perform, etc.

You can find some intro stuff on monitoring publicly available services at http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/ ... vices.html. If you need to monitor other than publicly available services on remote machines you'll need to install and configure a means of running code on those remote machines. You can use a plugin like NRPE, or you can use run remote code using SSH.

I'd recommend that you start by checking out the link above, give it a try, and if you get lost or encounter problem post back here for clarification.

[slansing]

Excellent help Redcat, thank you for contributing. Basically we would need to know what your company is trying to monitor to give specific configuration details, though Redcat did put you on the right track.

[Ronnie]

Thanks for the replies.

Basically we have a vendor who have sent us some MIB files that their server will be sending us for alarm monitoring. I transferred these files into the Nagios MIBS folder but don't have a clue where to go from here, as i said i am a total beginner with anything like this. How can I start monitoring the IP's of the server for these files?

[abrist]

You will want to use snmp traps most likely. Read through the links on the following url: http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/ ... ptrap.html
It may take a bit of reading . . .