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Learning Nagios 4

By : Wojciech Kocjan
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Learning Nagios 4

By: Wojciech Kocjan

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Learning Nagios 4
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Third-party Nagios web interfaces


There are also multiple web interfaces available on the Internet in addition to the GUI that comes with Nagios itself. A wide choice of additional web interfaces can be found on Nagios Exchange at http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Addons/Frontends-(GUIs-and-CLIs)/Web-Interfaces.

Many of the GUIs available on Nagios Exchange are dashboards. These show statuses for hosts, services, and errors. The dashboards are often displayed on a large display, such as TV, so that the IT department can easily monitor the status of the infrastructure and identify problems that need to be fixed.

One example of such an interface is called Nagios Dashboard. It is a small PHP script that shows the statuses of hosts and services, starting with those that have an error status. The plugin can be found on Nagios Exchange at http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Addons/Frontends-%28GUIs-and-CLIs%29/Web-Interfaces/Nagios-Dashboard--2D-PHP/details.

The entire interface is a single...