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Nagios Core - Adaptive Monitoring
Viewed 9262 times since Mon, Feb 1, 2016
Adaptive Monitoring This documentation explains how Nagios allows you to change certain commands and host and service check attributes during runtime. Documentation - Adaptive Monitoring  Final Thoughts For any support related questions please... Read More
Nagios Core - Alerting With MySQL and Nagios - NWC13
Viewed 7817 times since Tue, Feb 9, 2016
Alerting With MySQL and Nagios - NWC13 Sheeri Cabral's presentation - "Alerting On MySQL With Nagios" during the Nagios World Conference North America 2012. Â Â Â Final Thoughts For any support related questions please visit the Nagios... Read More
Nagios Core - Authentication And Authorization In The CGIs
Viewed 6622 times since Sun, Jan 31, 2016
Authentication And Authorization In The CGIs This documentation describes how the Nagios CGIs decide who has access to view monitoring and configuration information, and who can submit commands to the Nagios daemon through the web interface.... Read More
Nagios Core - Cached Checks
Viewed 5251 times since Mon, Feb 1, 2016
Cached Checks This documentation explains how cached checks allow Nagios to forgo executing a host or service check command if it determines a relatively recent check result will do instead. Documentation - Cached Checks  Final Thoughts For any... Read More
Nagios Core - CGI Configuration File Options
Viewed 12911 times since Sun, Jan 31, 2016
CGI Configuration File Options Information on the CGI configuration file options. Documentation - CGI Configuration File Options  Final Thoughts For any support related questions please visit the Nagios Support Forums at: http://support.nagios.com... Read More
Nagios Core - Configuration Overview
Viewed 10479 times since Sun, Jan 31, 2016
Nagios Core - Configuration Overview There are several different configuration files that you're going to need to create or edit before you start monitoring anything. Be patient! Configuring Nagios can take quite a while, especially if you'... Read More
Nagios Core - Determining Status and Reachability of Network Hosts
Viewed 5037 times since Sun, Jan 31, 2016
Determining Status and Reachability of Network Hosts Nagios is able to determine whether the hosts you're monitoring are in a DOWN or UNREACHABLE state. These are very different (although related) states and can help you quickly determine the... Read More
Nagios Core - Distributed Monitoring
Viewed 5934 times since Mon, Feb 1, 2016
Distributed Monitoring This documentation explains different solutions that allow Nagios to scale to monitor a large infrastructure. Documentation - Distributed Monitoring  Final Thoughts For any support related questions please visit the Nagios... Read More
Nagios Core - Host and Service Dependencies
Viewed 6740 times since Mon, Feb 1, 2016
Host and Service Dependencies Service and host dependencies are an advanced feature of Nagios that allow you to control the behavior of hosts and services based on the status of one or more other hosts or services. This documentation will explain how... Read More
Nagios Core - How To Monitor A Linux/Unix Machine
Viewed 7083 times since Sun, Jan 31, 2016
How To Monitor A Linux/Unix Machine Information on how to monitor a Linux/Unix machine. Documentation - How To Monitor A Linux/Unix Machine  Final Thoughts For any support related questions please visit the Nagios Support Forums at: http://support... Read More
Nagios Core - How To Monitor A Netware Server
Viewed 3363 times since Sun, Jan 31, 2016
How To Monitor A Netware Server This document provides information on how you can monitor Novell Netware servers. Documentation - How To Monitor A Netware Server  Final Thoughts For any support related questions please visit the Nagios Support... Read More
Nagios Core - How To Monitor A Network Printer
Viewed 6616 times since Sun, Jan 31, 2016
How To Monitor A Network Printer This document describes how you can monitor the status of networked printers. Specifically, HP printers that have internal/external JetDirect cards/devices, or other print servers that support the JetDirect protocol.... Read More
Nagios Core - How To Monitor A Publicly Available Service (HTTP, FTP, SSH, etc.)
Viewed 5254 times since Sun, Jan 31, 2016
How To Monitor A Publicly Available Service (HTTP, FTP, SSH, etc.) This document describes how you can monitor publicly available services, applications and protocols. By "public" I mean services that are accessible across the network - either the... Read More
Nagios Core - How To Monitor A Router/Switch
Viewed 8560 times since Sun, Jan 31, 2016
How To Monitor A Router/Switch This document describes how you can monitor the status of network switches and routers. Some cheaper "unmanaged" switches and hubs don't have IP addresses and are essentially invisible on your network, so there&... Read More
Nagios Core - How To Monitor A Windows Machine
Viewed 9058 times since Sun, Jan 31, 2016
How To Monitor A Windows Machine This document describes how you can monitor "private" services and attributes of Windows machines, such as memory usage, CPU load, disk usage, service states and running processes. Documentation - How To Monitor A... Read More
Nagios Core - How to Think with Nagios to Solve Monitoring Problems - NWC14
Viewed 5510 times since Mon, Feb 8, 2016
How to Think with Nagios to Solve Monitoring Problems - NWC14 Welcome to the wonderful journey of monitoring problem solving! The different aspects of the essence of monitoring will be presented to you. You can learn the trick to make a plugin pass... Read More
Nagios Core - Large Installation Tweaks
Viewed 4747 times since Mon, Feb 1, 2016
Large Installation Tweaks Users with large Nagios installations may benefit from the use_large_installation_tweaks configuration option. This documentation explains how enabling this option allows the Nagios daemon to take certain shortcuts which... Read More
Nagios Core - Leveraging SNMP Extensions with Nagios - NWC13
Viewed 7363 times since Tue, Feb 9, 2016
Leveraging SNMP Extensions with Nagios - NWC13 The MIB for SNMP extension is NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB which can be used as an agent-less option for monitoring. This MIB will provide the option to query commands or shell scripts for metrics that are... Read More
Nagios Core - Main Configuration File Options
Viewed 4669 times since Sun, Jan 31, 2016
Main Configuration File Options The main configuration file contains a number of directives that affect how the Nagios daemon operates. This config file is read by both the Nagios daemon and the CGIs. Documentation - Main Configuration File Options Â... Read More
Nagios Core - Monitoring Remote Locations with Nagios - NWC13
Viewed 6399 times since Tue, Feb 9, 2016
Monitoring Remote Locations with Nagios - NWC13 Monitoring a single, connected network is straightforward. When you need to monitor various locations, with different access and connectivity challenges, things get a little more complicated. This... Read More
Nagios Core - Monitoring Service and Host Clusters
Viewed 5921 times since Mon, Feb 1, 2016
Monitoring Service and Host Clusters This documentation will show you how you can perform cluster monitoring based on the state of other hosts and services. Documentation - Monitoring Service and Host Clusters  Final Thoughts For any support... Read More
Nagios Core - Multi-Tenant Nagios Monitoring - NWC14
Viewed 7237 times since Mon, Feb 8, 2016
Multi-Tenant Nagios Monitoring - NWC14 This presentation details an implementation of Nagios Core that is used to monitor more than 5 individual customers using remote appliances sending via secure links to a central location. Â Â Â Final... Read More
Nagios Core - Nagios as a PC Health Monitor - NWC14
Viewed 8653 times since Tue, Feb 9, 2016
Nagios as a PC Health Monitor - NWC14 For organisations with limited budget or resources, Nagios can be a great tool to monitor the health of the their PC fleet. This presentation will cover real world examples of how integrating Nagios, NSClient++... Read More
Nagios Core - Notification Escalations
Viewed 6419 times since Mon, Feb 1, 2016
Notification Escalations Nagios supports optional escalation of contact notifications for hosts and services. This documentation explains how escalations work. Documentation - Notification Escalations  Final Thoughts For any support related... Read More
Nagios Core - Object Configuration Overview
Viewed 5028 times since Sun, Jan 31, 2016
Object Configuration Overview This document explains what objects are in Nagios. Documentation - Object Configuration Overview  Final Thoughts For any support related questions please visit the Nagios Support Forums at: http://support.nagios.com... Read More
Nagios Core - Object Definitions
Viewed 4240 times since Sun, Jan 31, 2016
Object Definitions Object definition are used to define hosts, services, hostgroups, contacts, contactgroups, commands, etc. This is where you define all the things you want monitor and how you want to monitor them. Documentation - Object Definitions... Read More
Nagios Core - Object Inheritance
Viewed 8760 times since Mon, Feb 1, 2016
Object Inheritance This documentation explains how object inheritance works in Nagios which can be used in object definitions and templates. Documentation - Object Inheritance  Final Thoughts For any support related questions please visit the... Read More
Nagios Core - On-Call Rotations
Viewed 4374 times since Mon, Feb 1, 2016
On-Call Rotations This documentation will show you how you can create timeperiod definitions in a way that can facilitate most on-call notification rotations. Documentation - On-Call Rotations  Final Thoughts For any support related questions... Read More
Nagios Core - Passive Host State Translation
Viewed 4261 times since Mon, Feb 1, 2016
Passive Host State Translation This documentation explains passive host state translation in distributed and failover monitoring installations of Nagios. Documentation - Passive Host State Translation  Final Thoughts For any support related... Read More
Nagios Core - Passive Monitoring with Nagios - NWC14
Viewed 9766 times since Mon, Feb 8, 2016
Passive Monitoring with Nagios - NWC14 Whereas active monitoring receives all the attention, passive monitoring is the be-all, end-all to truly managing by exception. This session will present three scenarios for passive monitoring including:... Read More
Nagios Core - Predictive Dependency Checks
Viewed 4376 times since Mon, Feb 1, 2016
Predictive Dependency Checks This documentation explains how predictive dependency checks for hosts and services works in Nagios. Documentation - Predictive Dependency Checks  Final Thoughts For any support related questions please visit the Nagios... Read More
Nagios Core - Scheduled Downtime
Viewed 6461 times since Mon, Feb 1, 2016
Scheduled Downtime This documentation explains how Nagios allows you to schedule periods of planned downtime for hosts and service that you're monitoring. This is useful in the event that you actually know you're going to be taking a server... Read More
Nagios Core - Service and Host Freshness Checks
Viewed 3961 times since Mon, Feb 1, 2016
Service and Host Freshness Checks Nagios supports a feature that does "freshness" checking on the results of host and service checks. This documentation explains how freshness checks work. Documentation - Service and Host Freshness Checks  Final... Read More
Nagios Core - SNMP Explained - NWC15
Viewed 10991 times since Mon, Feb 8, 2016
SNMP Explained - NWC15 How does the snmp protocol work and how can it be used within Nagios? Â Â Â Final Thoughts For any support related questions please visit the Nagios Support Forums at: http://support.nagios.com/forum/ Read More
Nagios Core - SNMP Monitoring Architecture With Nagios - NWC13
Viewed 9419 times since Tue, Feb 9, 2016
SNMP Monitoring Architecture With Nagios - NWC13 SNMP is sometimes feared for being not-so-simple monitoring protocol, but as a standard it has proven its worth many times and is the main way to monitor network equipment as well as supported by all... Read More
Nagios Core - SNMP Trap Integration
Viewed 7303 times since Mon, Feb 1, 2016
SNMP Trap Integration There are hundreds of community-contributed SNMP addons and projects on Nagios Exchange. This documentation provides a few links to SNMP projects and categories that are most useful when integrating SNMP traps with Nagios.... Read More
Nagios Core - Standard Macros in Nagios
Viewed 4863 times since Sun, Jan 31, 2016
Standard Macros in Nagios Standard macros that are available in Nagios are listed in this documentation. Documentation - Standard Macros in Nagios  Final Thoughts For any support related questions please visit the Nagios Support Forums at: http:/... Read More
Nagios Core - State Stalking
Viewed 6388 times since Mon, Feb 1, 2016
State Stalking State "stalking" is a feature which allows you to log changes in the output service and host checks even if the state of the host or service does not change. This documentation will explain how state stalking works. Documentation -... Read More
Nagios Core - TCP Wrapper Integration
Viewed 3437 times since Mon, Feb 1, 2016
TCP Wrapper Integration This document explains how to easily generate alerts in Nagios for connection attempts that are rejected by TCP wrappers. For example, if an unauthorized host attempts to connect to your SSH server, you can receive an alert in... Read More
Nagios Core - Time Period Inheritance
Viewed 6117 times since Thu, Mar 10, 2016
Overview This article describes how time period inheritance works in Nagios Core. The name directive must be defined in the parent object for inheritance to work. The parent object is being referenced by the use directive. The name directive is not... Read More
Nagios Core - Time Periods
Viewed 6066 times since Sun, Jan 31, 2016
Time Periods Timeperiod definitions allow you to control when various aspects of the monitoring and alerting logic can operate. Documentation - Time Periods  Final Thoughts For any support related questions please visit the Nagios Support Forums at... Read More
Nagios Core - Time-Saving Tricks For Object Definitions
Viewed 4312 times since Mon, Feb 1, 2016
Time-Saving Tricks For Object Definitions This documentation explains how you can exploit the features of template-based object definitions to save yourself time and to create complex (and simple) monitoring configurations. Documentation - Time... Read More
Nagios Core - Understanding Macros and How They Work
Viewed 4552 times since Sun, Jan 31, 2016
Understanding Macros and How They Work One of the main features that make Nagios so flexible is the ability to use macros in command defintions. Macros allow you to reference information from hosts, services, and other sources in your commands.... Read More
Nagios Core - Verifying Your Configuration
Viewed 3589 times since Sun, Jan 31, 2016
Verifying Your Configuration Information on verifying the Nagios Core monitoring configuration. Documentation - Verifying Your Configuration  This article also has related troubleshooting information: Documentation - Nagios service does not start -... Read More
Nagios Core - Volatile Services
Viewed 4940 times since Mon, Feb 1, 2016
Volatile Services This documentation explains what volatile services are in Nagios Core. Documentation - Volatile Services  Final Thoughts For any support related questions please visit the Nagios Support Forums at: http://support.nagios.com/forum/ Read More
Nagios XI - Group Deployment of Service Checks - NWC15
Viewed 5944 times since Mon, Feb 8, 2016
Group Deployment of Service Checks - NWC15 This presentation will show how you can create groups of checks like CPU metrics, Oracle metrics or IIS metrics and push them to all of the hosts that require them. The presentation will provide a script... Read More
Nagios XI - How To Use CA Certificates With check_ldaps Plugin
Viewed 9781 times since Tue, Jul 26, 2016
Overview This KB article shows you how to use certificate authority (CA) certificates with the check_ldaps plugin. Â Problem When you try and execute the check_ldaps plugin: /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_ldaps -H dc01.domain.local -b ''... Read More
Nagios XI - Nagios Agents
Viewed 8388 times since Wed, Jan 28, 2015
Overview Agents are programs that help aid Nagios with monitoring. Most often they are used to get information from remote machines or devices.  Agents There are several agents for Nagios, generally the agents work with Nagios Core and Nagios XI... Read More
Nagios XI - Special Characters
Viewed 21588 times since Tue, Apr 25, 2017
Overview Nagios XI, as well as the Linux command line interface, have some reserved characters that need to be escaped in specific ways. Special characters are a group of characters that carry out special instructions, like the dollar sign $ which... Read More
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