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Learning Nagios 3.0

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Learning Nagios 3.0

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Learning Nagios 3.0
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface

Managing Services


Similar to host-related information and operations, Nagios has panels for working with services. This consists of several service and service group views, in addition to being able to view detailed information on each service and modify the parameters of the service.

Status

The Nagios web interface offers a view of all defined services, their statuses, and basic information about the services. This information can be accessed by clicking on the Service Detail link on the left-side menu.

The following screenshot reports 19 services, all of which are currently working correctly:

The main part of the page is a table showing all services, along with their statuses and detailed information on the output from the checks carried out against these services.

Services are grouped by the hosts they are configured for, and they are sorted by service description. This is the default order by which the table is sorted. It is possible to sort the table according to your needs by clicking...