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Hi Team,

We are using Nagios XI to monitor our Windows, AIX, Linux servers. As of now, we are monitoring parameters like mount points, memory related parameters, services, etc on them.

I wanted to know if there is any standard template or any document which describes what all parameters/services we can monitor on Aix/Linux servers so that we can start monitoring them as well on our servers.

For now we are just monitoring as per the requirement but, we want to know what all things we can actually monitor using Nagios XI.

Please help me with the same.

Thanks in advance!!

First, here are some resources to get you started monitoring in those environments.
https://www.nagios.com/solutions/windows-monitoring/
https://www.nagios.com/solutions/linux-monitoring/
https://www.nagios.com/solutions/aix-monitoring/

And here is a list of standard plugins that are available to you.
http://nagios-plugins.org/doc/man/index.html

Unfortunately we don't really have a standardized list of "things to monitor" in a given environment. Each host is going to be different. For example, with most hosts, high CPU load over a period of time is worth alerting on. However, if you have a host that is running a CPU intensive application, high CPU load may be routine for it, and so you wouldn't want to alert on it.

The best route here is to make sure that you're only alerting on things that you can do something about, and that are known to negatively affect your environment.