Monitoring Websites

[Cobra1337]

Hi there,

I am new to Nagios, and I am wondering if it is capable of monitoring domains by ping and http. We have a bunch of websites on a server setup as different virtual hosts and we would like to monitor whether or not the website is in fact operating.

Thanks!

[jsmurphy]

Yes you can, it's one of the more common things I believe Nagios is used for.

[Cobra1337]

Great. Would you happen to know where I can find documentation pertaining to this?

[mguthrie]

Yeah, a good place to start would be the Core manual for publicly available services:
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/ ... vices.html

If a commercial solution happens to be an option for you, Nagios XI has a website wizard that sets up Ping, http, web page content, and DNS checks for your website. These can all be set up on Core as well but it takes a little more work while you learn to manage the object config files.

[Cobra1337]

Thanks a lot! I'm starting to get a hang of objects already!

[saularnold]

Nice informative post, thanks for sharing your information.


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