What are the basic tools to monitor a Site with Nagios

[Jessuzz94]

Supossing that i have nagios, what extra tools or plugins are neccesary to monitor efficiently devices of a Site?

[jdalrymple]

That is a pretty vague question. Do you mean a site like a datacenter? If so then the tools you might need could be numerous, in this context tools = plugins.

If you mean a webSITE then check_http should do just about everything you need and it's in plugins. It can monitor for defacement, accessibility etc.

[lmiltchev]

You could use "check_http", "check_dns", etc. Can you elaborate on what exactly you would like to monitor?

[Jessuzz94]

I mean a Site like server router and switches, im using nagios for 2 months and i monitored services, configure a mail server to send notifications to a gmail account, configured snmp to monitor bandwidth of interfaces of network devices, but i dont what more to do.
All this is from tests, maybe im going to implement nagios to the Site and i want to know what more can do with nagios

[jdalrymple]

Nagios is a monitoring engine, you can monitor your stuff with it

I mean a Site like server router and switches

Yes, it can monitor that stuff.

Generally speaking you don't approach a product and just do things because it can though, you use a product to fill a void in your existing infrastructure. Look at your infrastructure and make list of the stuff you want to monitor. Odds are everything on that list will be monitorable in some way by Nagios.

I suggest maybe you start at our YouTube channel.

[lmiltchev]

I would also recommend browsing through this website:

https://www.nagios.com/solutions

There is lots of Nagios XI info, but also some Nagios Core solutions. I hope this helps.

[Jessuzz94]

Okay, very thanks!