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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465579403321

Autore

Guthrie Michael

Titolo

Instant Nagios starter [[electronic resource] ] : an easy guide to getting a Nagios server up and running for monitoring, altering, and reporting / / Michael Guthrie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Birmingham, : Packt Pub., 2013

ISBN

1-78216-251-8

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (46 p.)

Soggetti

Computer networks - Management - Automation

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Instant: short, fast, focused"--Cover.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewer; www.packtpub.com; packtlib.packtpub.com; Table of Contents; Instant Nagios Starter; So, what is Nagios?; Installation; Step 1 - What do I need?; Step 2 - Prerequisites; Step 3 - Downloading and extracting Nagios and Nagios plugins; Step 4 - Compiling and installing; Nagios Core; Nagios plugins; Step 5 - The Nagios directory structure; Step 6 - Installing NRPE and NRDP; NRPE; NRDP; Step 7 - Post installation setup; Web access; Adding services to system startup; SELinux; Firewall rules; And that's it!

Quick start - Monitoring hosts and servicesStep 1 - Modifying nagios.cfg; Step 2 - Adding a host; Step 3 - Adding a service; Step 4 - Creating and assigning contacts; Step 5 - Verifying configuration and restarting Nagios; Top 5 features you'll want to know about; Active checks using agents; Active checks with NRPE; Active checks with NSClient++; Passive checks for remote locations; Incident management and alerting; Data visualization and reporting; Nagios reports; Performance graphing; NagVis; Nagios BPI; Ndoutils; Nagios basic troubleshooting; People and places you should get to know

Official sitesArticles and tutorials; Communities; Blogs; Twitter

Sommario/riassunto

Get to grips with a new technology, understand what it is and what it can do for you, and then get to work with the most important features



and tasks.A concise guide, written in an easy-to-follow format.Instant Nagios Starter is an outstanding resource for system engineers, administrators and developers, with a basic understanding of the Linux command line Readers should have access to a test system or virtual machine with Linux installed to follow the given examples.