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Mastering RabbitMQ

By : Yusuf Aytas, Emrah Ayanoglu, Dotan Nahum
Book Image

Mastering RabbitMQ

By: Yusuf Aytas, Emrah Ayanoglu, Dotan Nahum

Overview of this book

RabbitMQ is one of the most powerful Open Source message broker software, which is widely used in tech companies such as Mozilla, VMware, Google, AT&T, and so on. RabbitMQ gives you lots of fantastic and easy-to-manage functionalities to control and manage the messaging facility with lots of community support. As scalability is one of our major modern problems, messaging with RabbitMQ is the main part of the solution to this problem This book explains and demonstrates the RabbitMQ server in a detailed way. It provides you with lots of real-world examples and advanced solutions to tackle the scalability issues. You’ll begin your journey with the installation and configuration of the RabbitMQ server, while also being given specific details pertaining to the subject. Next, you’ll study the major problems that our server faces, including scalability and high availability, and try to get the solutions for both of these issues by using the RabbitMQ mechanisms. Following on from this, you’ll get to design and develop your own plugins using the Erlang language and RabbitMQ’s internal API. This knowledge will help you to start with the management and monitoring of the messages, tools, and applications. You’ll also gain an understanding of the security and integrity of the messaging facilities that RabbitMQ provides. In the last few chapters, you will build and keep track of your clients (senders and receivers) using Java, Python, and C#.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Mastering RabbitMQ
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Nagios


Before talking about the details of the Nagios RabbitMQ plugin and monitoring with the help of Nagios, we'd like to dive into the basics of Nagios. Nagios is simply defined as a powerful monitoring system that enables organizations to identify and resolve IT problems before affecting the business processes. It is a powerful tool that provides monitoring, alerting, reporting, maintenance, and planning of server.

Nagios has lots of functionalities as covered in the following list:

  • Monitoring your entire infrastructure

  • Responding to the issues for the limits and problems

  • Automatically fixing the problems when they are detected

  • Coordinating the technical team responses

Nagios is an extendable tool with its plugins. RabbitMQ can be bridged with the Nagios plugin. The Nagios-RabbitMQ plugin is developed by James Casey. It is an open source project and is published on Github. We need the RabbitMQ management plugin to use this open source project in Nagios.

First, we will download the source code...