Sick of paying big bucks for proprietary tools like HP's Openview or CA's Unicenter? Look no further than Nagios, an open source network monitoring tool that's enterprise-ready and expert-recommended to replace commercial solutions. Check out our guide
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Introduction to Nagios Return to table of contents
Definition: What is Nagios?
Expert advice: How
does Nagios work for network monitoring?
Open source software and applications expert Bernard Golden recommends Nagios, an open source
network monitoring tools, as a best fit for server management needs.
Tip: Golden's
Rules: Beyond the LAMP stack - A guide to open source Nagios, Xen & Asterisk
Open source expert Bernard Golden gives a tour of such lesser-known, enterprise-ready open source
products as Nagios, Xen and Asterisk.
Expert advice: Integrating
Nagios with BMC patrol
Security expert and author of Pro Nagios 2.0, James Turnbull, explains that Nagios can be
how Nagios can be used with BMC Patrol.
Expert advice: Switching
from commercial network management products to Nagios
Open source expert Bernard Golden explains what commercial products can be replaced with
Nagios.
Configuring Nagios Return to table of contents
Network monitoring with Nagios, Part
1
Bernard Golden discusses the usefulness and architecture of open source network monitoring tool
Nagios.
Network monitoring with Nagios, Part
2
Bernard Golden looks at example Nagios configuration in this tip.
Tip:
Nagios
plug-ins help device monitoring
Find out where to go for customized Nagios plug-ins that will help you monitor Windows and Linux
machines and get some timesaving tips.
Tip: Nagios:
Balancing passive and active checks
The author of Network monitoring with Nagios suggests a workaround for balancing active and
passive checks and explains the impact of service failures.
Tip: Nagios
Looking Glass: Getting started
Nagios Looking Glass (NLG) allows users to access Nagios data on a Web server via an HTTP
connection. Learn how to set up the NLG client-server model in this tip.
Tip: Managing
events with Nagios Event Broker
Use modules with Nagios Event Broker, a server event output and integration tool, for receiving
events and executing code on them. In this tip, you'll learn how NEB functions, what modules are
available and how to find other modules.
Expert advice: Using
custom plug-ins with Nagios
Discover how to modify Nagios for use with XML
Expert advice: Monitoring
Web pages using Nagios
Security expert and Pro Nagios 2.0 author James Turnbull explains how to monitor the amount
of time spent on Web pages using Nagios.
Nagios chapter downloads Return to table of contents
Chapter download: Chapter 1 -- Best practices -- of Building a Monitoring Infrastructure with Nagios Discover what pitfalls to avoid when making design choices for your Nagios installation.
Chapter download: Chapter 2 -- Basic objection configuration -- of Pro Nagios 2.0 Get started on the basics of configuring your Nagios server to monitor hosts and services. Learn the differences between Nagios object types and their capabilities.
Chapter download: Chapter 7 -- Testing local resources -- of Nagios: System and Network Monitoring Learn how to test plug-ins over a local network since some lack their own network protocols
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Tip: Looking
ahead to Nagios 3.0
GroundWork James Turnbull, author of Pro Nagios 2.0, describes the new features in the
upcoming Nagios 3.0 enterprise monitoring program.
Case
study: Nagios
network monitoring felled by SNMP false alarms
False alarms were keeping one IT director up way past his bedtime, but one open source systems
management and monitoring application quickly became the perfect sleeping pill.
Case
study: Firms
find open source way to save over HP OpenView
For one-tenth the cost of systems management software from Hewlett-Packard and the like, IT
managers chose an outsourced solution based on the open source Nagios stack.
Article: Chief
Splunker: Splunk + Nagios = quick data center fixes
Find out why Splunk is adding Nagios, a popular open source monitoring tool, to its data center
troubleshooter in this interview with chief Splunker Michael Baum.
Article: Systems
monitoring expert Taylor Dondich discusses monitoring with Nagios
GroundWork Open Source senior developer Taylor Dondich discusses open source network monitoring
with Nagios and the future of open source software in the data center.
This was first published in April 2007
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