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Configuring contacts for sending alerts/notifications.

Notifications for any failed service or alerts are sent to predefined set of contacts known as contacts groups. These contact groups contain or…

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Asked by: Csaba Toth · 6 years ago

Understanding state flapping.

Flapping occurs when a service check changes its state too frequently between OK and ALARM state. Such checks or behavior may result in a storm of…

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Asked by: Csaba Toth · 6 years ago

Creating event handlers.

Event handlers can be added in Nagios to take care of any specific event. It’s the way to tell nagios what is needed to be done in case a specific…

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Asked by: Janette White · 6 years ago

Installing NRDP server.

Copy the entire contents to /usr/local/nrdp then change permissions using chown. Edit below file - vim /usr/local/nrdp/server/config.inc.php Add…

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Asked by: Janette White · 6 years ago

How to configure passive checks.

Passive checks are enabled at client side as these are initiated at client end. A passive check script is enabled at client host with the command…

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Asked by: Janette White · 6 years ago

Checking SWAP space.

Swap space is a very necessary expectation of a linux based server hence, it's very important to monitor it. This can be done via check_swap plugin.…

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Asked by: Guy Rodd · 6 years ago

Standard Nagios Plugins.

There are various plugins offered by Nagios exchange itself, among them some are basic or standard ones which are needed in nearly every host…

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Asked by: Stacy Reed · 6 years ago

Using mobile applications to check nagios status

Nagios mobile application can be used to view alerts, or in short nagios status over mobile. This way it becomes more handy to check related services…

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Asked by: Michael Robinson · 6 years ago

Interacting with nagios cli.

The services check enabled in Nagios GUI can be checked via nagios command line also, these commands need to be executed on Nagios server. The…

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Asked by: Abdul Rehman · 6 years ago

Learning command line interfaces via nagios commander.

Nagios can be easily accessed & controlled via command line using nagios-commander. This is basically nagios frontend API which can be accessed via…

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Asked by: Stacy Reed · 6 years ago

Viewing performance data with Nagios graph.

The graphical view representation of hosts/services can be viewed using Nagios graph. It’s one of the most popular tools used by Nagios for GUI based…

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Asked by: Nicola Young · 6 years ago

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