Learning Nagios 4One of the most important challenges in system monitoring is to detect and report any malfunctioning system or device as soon as possible, so that you as an administrator are aware of the problem before a user runs into one.
Nagios is a powerful monitoring tool that enables organizations to identify and resolve IT infrastructure problems before they affect critical business processes. It monitors your entire IT infrastructure to ensure systems, applications, services, and business processes are functioning properly. In the event of a failure, Nagios can alert the technical staff of the problem, allowing them to begin remediation processes before outages affect business processes, end-users, or customers. ...
Nagios Core Administration CookbookMonitor almost anything in a network
Control notifications in your network by configuring Nagios Core. Get a handle on best practices and time-saving configuration methods for a leaner configuration. Use the web interface to control notification behaviour on the fly and for scheduled outages, without restarts. Pull Nagios Core's data into a database to write clever custom reports of your own devising. ...
NagiosNagios which runs on Linux and most *nix variants, can be configured to continuously monitor network services such as SMTP, POP3, HTTP, NNTP, SSH, and FTP. It can also supervise host resources (processor load, disk and memory usage, running processes, log files, and so on) and environmental factors, such as temperature and humidity. This book is your guide to getting the most out of this versatile and powerful monitoring tool. ...