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Learning Nagios 4

Learning Nagios 4

By : Wojciech Kocjan
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Learning Nagios 4

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By: Wojciech Kocjan
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Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Learning Nagios 4
Credits
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Credits
About the Author
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About the Author
About the Reviewers
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About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
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www.PacktPub.com
Preface
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Preface
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Introducing Nagios
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Introducing Nagios
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Understanding the basics of Nagios
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Soft and hard states
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What's new in Nagios 4.0
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Summary
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Installing Nagios 4
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Installing Nagios 4
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Installation
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Configuring Nagios
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Summary
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Using the Nagios Web Interface
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Using the Nagios Web Interface
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Setting up the web interface
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Using the web interface
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Managing hosts
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Managing services
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Managing downtime
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Managing comments
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Nagios information
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Generating reports
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Changing the look of the Nagios web interface
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Third-party Nagios web interfaces
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Summary
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Using the Nagios Plugins
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Using the Nagios Plugins
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Understanding how checks work
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Monitoring using the standard network plugins
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Monitoring the e-mail servers
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Monitoring network services
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Monitoring the database systems
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Monitoring the storage space
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Monitoring the resources
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Monitoring other operations
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Additional and third-party plugins
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Summary
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Advanced Configuration
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Advanced Configuration
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Creating maintainable configurations
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Configuring the file structure
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Defining the dependencies
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Using the templates
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Using the custom variables
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Understanding flapping
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Summary
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Notifications and Events
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Notifications and Events
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Creating effective notifications
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Understanding escalations
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Sending commands to Nagios
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Creating event handlers
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Using adaptive monitoring
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Summary
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Passive Checks and NSCA
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Passive Checks and NSCA
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Understanding passive checks
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Using NSCA
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Summary
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Monitoring Remote Hosts
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Monitoring Remote Hosts
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Monitoring over SSH
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Monitoring using NRPE
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Comparing NRPE and SSH
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Alternatives to SSH and NRPE
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Summary
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Monitoring using SNMP
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Monitoring using SNMP
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Introducing SNMP
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Working with SNMP and MIB
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Setting up an SNMP agent
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Using SNMP from Nagios
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Summary
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Advanced Monitoring
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Advanced Monitoring
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Monitoring Windows hosts
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Understanding distributed monitoring
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Using templates for distributed monitoring
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Summary
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Programming Nagios
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Programming Nagios
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Introducing Nagios customizations
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Programming in C with libnagios
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Creating custom active checks
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Checking websites
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Virtualization and clouds
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Writing commands to send notifications
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Managing Nagios
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Summary
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Using the Query Handler
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Using the Query Handler
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Introducing the query handler
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Using the core service
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Introducing Nagios Event Radio Dispatcher
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Summary
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Index
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Index

Creating custom active checks

One of the most common areas where Nagios can be suited to fit your needs is that of active checks . These are the checks that are scheduled and run by the Nagios daemon. This functionality is described in more detail in Chapter 2, Installing Nagios 4.

Nagios has a project that ships the commonly-used plugins and comes with a large variety of checks that can be performed. Before thinking about writing anything on your own, it is best to check for the standard plugins (described in detail in Chapter 4, Using the Nagios Plugins).

Tip

The Nagios Exchange (http://exchange.nagios.org) website contains multiple ready-to-use plugins for performing active checks. It is recommended that you check whether somebody has already written a similar plugin for your needs.

The reason for this is that even though active checks are quite easy to implement, sometimes a complete implementation that handles errors and command line options parsing is not very easy to create. Typically...

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