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What are the basic tools to monitor a Site with Nagios

Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2015 12:34 pm
by Jessuzz94
Supossing that i have nagios, what extra tools or plugins are neccesary to monitor efficiently devices of a Site?

Re: What are the basic tools to monitor a Site with Nagios

Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2015 1:32 pm
by 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.

Re: What are the basic tools to monitor a Site with Nagios

Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2015 1:36 pm
by lmiltchev
You could use "check_http", "check_dns", etc. Can you elaborate on what exactly you would like to monitor?

Re: What are the basic tools to monitor a Site with Nagios

Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2015 1:44 pm
by 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

Re: What are the basic tools to monitor a Site with Nagios

Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2015 2:03 pm
by jdalrymple
Nagios is a monitoring engine, you can monitor your stuff with it :)
Jessuzz94 wrote: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.

Re: What are the basic tools to monitor a Site with Nagios

Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2015 2:06 pm
by 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.

Re: What are the basic tools to monitor a Site with Nagios

Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2015 3:23 pm
by Jessuzz94
Okay, very thanks!