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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

Tracking host and service states with Nagiosgraph


In this recipe, you'll learn how to install and configure Nagiosgraph, which is a program that is integrated with Nagios Core's performance data tools to produce graphs that show long-term information about how checks for hosts and services are performing.

Getting ready

You will need to run a Nagios Core 4.0 or later server. Nagiosgraph will probably still work with older versions of Nagios Core, but the configuration may be slightly different. The INSTALL document included in the source for Nagiosgraph explains the differences in detail.

You should have a thorough understanding of defining hosts, services, and commands, and you should be able to install new software as the root user on the monitoring server. You should also be, at least, familiar with the layout of your Apache HTTPD server on the monitoring system; this recipe will assume that it is installed in /usr/local/apache.

Because Nagiosgraph has many Perl dependencies, you will need...