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Icinga Network Monitoring

By : Viranch Mehta
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Icinga Network Monitoring

By: Viranch Mehta

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<p>Icinga has a very flexible configuration that lets you describe your network and server’s infrastructure, and tell Icinga what services you want to monitor and get uptime reports for. You can customize the monitoring behaviour as well as notification methods with plugins. You can also configure handlers that run automatically when a service goes down.</p> <p>This book gives you a deep insight into setting up automated monitoring for small-scale to large-scale network and server infrastructures. With rising business around cloud computing services such as SaaS, IaaS, and others; service providers have to increase their network infrastructure with a number of servers and services. You will learn to keep tabs on these services to ensure maximum SLA that is promised to the customers.</p> <p>Icinga comes with ample example configurations that monitor the Icinga server itself. The book analyzes the default sample configuration. You will learn to monitor public services on remote servers, system health of Linux and Windows servers as well as the network devices. You will also look into how to customize the monitoring mechanism with plugins. You will then move towards alerting methods, how they work, and how they can be customized. At the end of the book, you will have a look into the web interface that gives the current status of the entire infrastructure and some reporting tools.</p>

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Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Icinga Network Monitoring
Icinga Network Monitoring
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Installation and Configuration
Installation and Configuration
An overview
What to expect?
Requirements
Download
Installation
Make it work
An overview of configuration options
Summary
2
Icinga Object Configuration
Icinga Object Configuration
Objects
A localhost monitoring setup
Templates
Notifications
Summary
3
Running Remote Checks on Systems
Running Remote Checks on Systems
Active checks
Passive checks
Summary
4
Monitoring Infrastructure, Network Services, and System Health
Monitoring Infrastructure, Network Services, and System Health
Linux servers
Windows servers
Network devices
Parent-child relationships and service dependencies
Summary
5
Host and Service Availability Reporting
Host and Service Availability Reporting
Default configuration
Customizing notification behavior
Summary
6
Icinga Plugins
Icinga Plugins
Writing custom plugins
Integrating custom plugins
Threshold and range standards
Summary
7
Web Interfaces
Web Interfaces
Icinga Classic
Icinga Web
Thruk
Summary
Index
Index

About the Reviewers

Toni de la Fuente (Blyx) is a Senior Solutions Engineer for Americas at Alfresco Software Inc. The highlight of his career is the more-than-14 years' experience he has in Systems Administration and Networking and Security. He also teaches LPI Linux certification, Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), and ITIL v3; recently, he was certified as an AWS Technical Professional and AWS Business Professional.

He was declared an Open Source enthusiast, having founded different open source projects in the last few years. He has participated in other open source-related projects, such as Madrid Wireless, Fedora Linux, or OpenSolaris Hispano, and been referenced in books on network security. He regularly takes lectures, courses, and conferences at different events in Europe, the United States, and Latin America. He has also contributed to the world of Open Source for more than 10 years with his blog http://blyx.com and through Twitter (@ToniBlyx).

Toni wants to thank Packt Publishing for their trust in him and to all the people who spend tons of hours working at night making Open Source—you all make this world a better place, keep going.

Naoya Hashimoto has been working on Linux system integration and system and operation maintenance, both on-premise and on a public cloud for years. He has also started developing a new service to manage, maintain, and monitor a system on public cloud along with his experience in working as an infrastructure engineer in Japan for the past few years. He has worked on books such as OSS DB Standard Text – PostgreSQL (http://www.oss-db.jp/ossdbtext/text.shtml) and was also involved in the translation of some chapters from Japanese to English.

Thanks to Vineeta Darade and Amigya Khurana for giving me the opportunity to review Icinga Network Monitoring, because it is my first time reviewing technical books on IT and, of course, Icinga, too. I would never have had an experience like this without using and writing about Icinga. Lastly, I'd like to express my gratitude to Forschooner Inc, as they gave me the opportunity to publish a company blog about OSS system integration and maintenance, mainly in Japanese but also in English.

Michael Medin is a Senior Developer and Lead Architect of the NSClient++ agent. He is an avid Open Source and monitoring fan and has been involved in open source monitoring for over 10 years. In Michael's day-to-day job, when he is not complaining about the lack of monitoring, he works as an Architect with Oracle Fusion Middleware. His blog, on which he often writes about monitoring, can be found at http://blog.medin.name.

Michael would like to thank Xiqun for allowing him to spend countless hours working with NSClient++ and his daughters for always bringing a smile to his face.

Daniel Oetken, born near Hamburg, Germany in 1990, started using Linux in 2007. He spent 10 months in Vancouver, Canada and is now working as a Junior Server Administrator. He is working mostly with Debian web and database servers, and is responsible for the administration of a Splunk Enterprise Cluster.

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