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Using Nagios dashboard.

The best way to view any kind of alerts shown is Nagios is via various dashboards available within Nagios itself. Also, these can be found within…

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Asked by: Janette White · 6 years ago

Reports Generation via PDF, CSV for audit purpose.

Reports can be accessed via the Reports link inNagios. The default one is the availability report. With the filters, an individual host/service or…

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Asked by: Carole Thom · 6 years ago

Understanding Notifications & their states.

Nagios triggers notifications whenever a service check fails after no. of re_check attempts are completed and still the state of service doesn’t…

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Asked by: Abdul Rehman · 6 years ago

Understanding Macro definitions.

Using Macros makes Nagios very flexible and enhances its ability. In simple coding language Macros can be defined as variables which are replaced by…

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Asked by: Carole Thom · 6 years ago

Obtaining nagios and Nagios plugins

The latest release of Nagios plugins can find out at - https://www.nagios.org/downloads/nagios-plugins/ Also on,…

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Asked by: Mark Sullivan · 6 years ago

Installing Nagios on centos 7

Installation of Nagios on CentOS 7 - Installing LAMP - yum install httpd mariadb-server php php-mysql Installing required packages - yum install gcc…

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Asked by: Robin Rose · 6 years ago

Soft and hard states of alerts.

There are 2 kinds of service states in Nagios known as soft and hard states. Soft state - This occurs when the check has resulted in “not ok ” or…

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Asked by: Kevin Rose · 6 years ago

Understanding the basics on Nagios

Nagios is used for system monitoring, it checks a system for various services and displays errors on the main dashboard or sends notifications if the…

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Asked by: Stacy Reed · 6 years ago

Using adaptive monitoring.

In Nagios a service check attribute can be changed during the run time of the command check, this feature is known as “Adaptive monitoring”.…

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Asked by: Kevin Rose · 6 years ago

Notifying user’s with text messages.

Nagios can send text messages on respective mobile no. via sending mail to respective mobile carriers. Mobile no. can be defined for every user and…

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Asked by: Nicola Young · 6 years ago

Sending passive check results for hosts

Sending passive check results cannot be done via nrpe client as this is enabled and used for active checks from the Nagios server. In the case of…

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Asked by: Mark Sullivan · 6 years ago

Sending instant message via Jabber.

Instan alert messages can be sent to user’s via integrating the Jabber plugin. This can be done via below steps - Create jabber plugin via perl…

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Asked by: Csaba Toth · 6 years ago

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