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Nagios Core Administration Cookbook Second Edition - Second Edition

By : Tom Ryder
Book Image

Nagios Core Administration Cookbook Second Edition - Second Edition

By: Tom Ryder

Overview of this book

Nagios Core is an open source monitoring framework suitable for any network that ensures both internal and customer-facing services are running correctly and manages notification and reporting behavior to diagnose and fix outages promptly. It allows very fine configuration of exactly when, where, what, and how to check network services to meet both the uptime goals of your network and systems team and the needs of your users. This book shows system and network administrators how to use Nagios Core to its fullest as a monitoring framework for checks on any kind of network services, from the smallest home network to much larger production multi-site services. You will discover that Nagios Core is capable of doing much more than pinging a host or to see whether websites respond. The recipes in this book will demonstrate how to leverage Nagios Core's advanced configuration, scripting hooks, reports, data retrieval, and extensibility to integrate it with your existing systems, and to make it the rock-solid center of your network monitoring world.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Nagios Core Administration Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Viewing and interpreting notification history


In this recipe, we'll see how to get both complete listings and convenient summaries of the alerts and notifications being generated by Nagios Core in response to hosts and services changing state. These options are all available under the Reports section of the sidebar:

It's important to distinguish between alerts and notifications in this section. An alert is generated in response to an event such as a host or service changing state. A notification, in turn, may or may not be generated as a response to that alert and can be sent to the appropriate contacts. The SOFT state changes constitute alerts; only HARD state changes generally generate notifications.

It's likely that a production monitoring server will not send notifications for every alert, particularly if you're making good use of the max_check_attempts, scheduled downtime, and problem acknowledgement features. So, you should make sure you're checking the correct section.

Getting started...