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Checks in Nagios, there types and use.

In nagios 2 kinds of service checks can be enabled i.e. Active checks & Passive checks. These checks can be enabled for different services depending upon the needs. Active checks - In an active check Nagios server send the request to client and at regular interval of time specified within the configuration and get’s…

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Answered Jan 9, 2020 · 1.4K Views Read answer →

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 notifications mails/sms. Which in short is not the desired or correct way of monitoring. In order to avoid this nagios self check and minimizes the flapping result by self…

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Introducing 3rd party interfaces.

There are various ways as how Nagios can be managed, one of the ways is to integrate it with 3rd party apps or interfaces and enhance its scalability. These 3rd party interfaces can be used to send notifications via sms, mms to mobile phones etc. There are a wide variety of choices available at Nagios exchange -:…

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Configuring hosts with different platform (windows, linux)

Under windows.cfg Open the file using a text editor and add below definition -: Opening Nagios.cfg file under - /usr/local/nagios/etc uncommenting below line, and save -: cfg_file = /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/windows.cfg Verifying Nagios config. # /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg

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Understanding installation of docker on windows.

Previously docker was used only on Linux host, but after a certain time it was made available for Windows OS also by docker engine running on Linux machine on virtual box, so linux however was acting as a middle man. Now in the latest release it’s available on windows kernel. Prerequisites for windows installation -…

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Answered Nov 20, 2019 · 1.9K Views Read answer →

Understanding Passive checks

These checks are enabled at client side i.e the command is triggered at client end and the result is communicated to Nagios server. The command can be triggered via crontab or any other timing mechanism. These checks are enabled where a specific service needs to be checked which changes its state at a particular time,…

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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 script as mentioned in - https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Nagios_jabber_notification Configuring & enabling the command within command.cfg file. Verify new configuration via -

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