Nagios Core Administration Cookbook Second Edition

Over 90 hands-on recipes that will employ Nagios Core as the anchor of monitoring on your network

Key Features

• Master the advanced configuration techniques of Nagios Core to model your network better by improving hosts, services, and contacts
• Filter and improve the notifications that Nagios Core sends in response to failed checks, which can greatly assist you when diagnosing problems
• Pull Nagios Core's data into a database to write clever custom reports of your own devise

Book Description

What you will learn

• Manage the configuration of Nagios Core with advanced techniques to achieve fine detail in your checks
• Find, install, and even write your own check plugins
• Filter notifications to send them to the right people or programs at the right time
• Work around difficult network accessibility issues and delegate checks to other machines
• Tweak a Nagios Core server to achieve both high performance and redundancy in case of disaster
• Process the results of checks performed by other machines to monitor backups and similar processes
• Extend Nagios Core to allow advanced scripting, reporting, and network visualization behavior

Who this book is for

If you are a network or system administrator and are looking for instructions and examples on working with Nagios Core, then this book is for you. Some basic shell command-line experience is required, and some knowledge of scripting would be helpful when we discuss how plugins work.