Nagios Application and Network Monitoring using Nagios Core

[kaushalshriyan]

Hi,

I am running Nagios Core 4.4.3. Is there a way to do both Application and Network Monitoring using Nagios Core?

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#/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg

Nagios Core 4.4.3
Copyright (c) 2009-present Nagios Core Development Team and Community Contributors
Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Ethan Galstad
Last Modified: 2019-01-15
License: GPL

Website: https://www.nagios.org
Reading configuration data...
   Read main config file okay...
   Read object config files okay...

Running pre-flight check on configuration data...

Checking objects...
	Checked 333 services.
	Checked 42 hosts.
	Checked 1 host groups.
	Checked 0 service groups.
	Checked 30 contacts.
	Checked 6 contact groups.
	Checked 36 commands.
	Checked 5 time periods.
	Checked 0 host escalations.
	Checked 0 service escalations.
Checking for circular paths...
	Checked 42 hosts
	Checked 0 service dependencies
	Checked 0 host dependencies
	Checked 5 timeperiods
Checking global event handlers...
Checking obsessive compulsive processor commands...
Checking misc settings...

Total Warnings: 0
Total Errors:   0

Things look okay - No serious problems were detected during the pre-flight check
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Thanks in Advance.

Best Regards,

Kaushal

[steffi]

Yes, it is possible.
For applications you are able to check for an existing process, have a look at check_process plugin.

[benjaminsmith]

Thanks @steffi.

You can also search the Nagios Exchange for more plugins.

Let us know if you have any other questions.

[kaushalshriyan]

Hi Steffi and Benjamin,

Thanks for the quick reply and much appreciated. How about Network Monitoring? Is it possible with Nagios Core 4.4.3?

Thanks in Advance

Best Regards,

Kaushal

[benjaminsmith]

Hi @kaushalshriyan,

Yes, that's possible. Take a look at the check_snmp plugin documentation here:

check_snmp
https://www.monitoring-plugins.org/doc/ ... _snmp.html

Nagios Plugins
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ugins.html