Nagios 3

Nagios Core Version 3.x Documentation
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About What is Nagios Core? System requirements Licensing Downloading the latest version Release Notes What’s new in this version Known issues Support Nagios Library - Nagios tips, tutorials, documentation, and manuals Support Forum - Community and customer Nagios support forum More Options - Community and commercial support options GettingStarted Advice for beginners Quickstart installation guide Upgrading from previous versions How to monitor a Windows machine How to monitor a Linux/Unix machine How to monitor a Netware server How to monitor a network printer How to monitor a router/switch How to monitor a publicly available service (HTTP, FTP, SSH, etc.) Configuring Nagios Configuration overview Main configuration file optionsObject configuration overview Object definitions CGI configuration file options Configuring authorization for the CGIs Running Nagios Verifying your configuration Starting and stopping Nagios The Basics Plugins Macros and how they work Standard macros available in Nagios Host checks Service checks Active checks Passive checks State types

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Time periods Determining status and reachability ofnetwork hosts Notifications Information on the CGIs Advanced Topics External commands Event handlers Volatile services Service and host result freshness checks Distributed monitoring Redundant and failover monitoring Detection and handling of state flapping Notification escalations On-call notification rotations Monitoring service and host clusters Host and service dependencies State stalkingPerformance data Scheduled host and service downtime Using the embedded Perl interpreter Adaptive monitoring Predictive dependency checks Cached checks Passive host state translation Check scheduling Custom CGI headers and footers Object inheritance Time-saving tips for object definitions Security and Performance Tuning Security considerations Enhanced CGI security and authentication Tuning Nagios formaximum performance Fast startup options Large installation tweaks Using the nagiostats utility Graphing Nagios performance statistics Integration With Other Software Integration Overview SNMP Traps TCP Wrappers Nagios Addons NRPE NSCA NDOUtils Other addons Nagios Exchange Development Plugin API Developing Plugins For Use With Embedded Perl

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About Nagios Core
Up To: Contents See Also:Quickstart Installation Guides Nagios Core Overview More information about Nagios Core - including features and technical specifications can be found online at www.nagios.org/about/. What Is Nagios Core? Nagios® Core™ is an Open Source system and network monitoring application. It watches hosts and services that you specify, alerting you when things go bad and when they get better. Nagios Core wasoriginally designed to run under Linux, although it should work under most other unices as well. Some of the many features of Nagios Core include: Monitoring of network services (SMTP, POP3, HTTP, NNTP, PING, etc.) Monitoring of host resources (processor load, disk usage, etc.) Simple plugin design that allows users to easily develop their own service checks Parallelized service checks Ability to...