Nagios
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Debian
aptitude install nagios3 nagios-plugins nagios-nrpe-plugin nagios3-doc
Set domain if you have one (else leave default) and set login user and password (it should prompt your for both)
At the time I had to apply the fix that is here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=626462
Notes
- http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-nagios-on-debian-lenny-and-monitoring-a-debian-lenny-server
- http://www.the-tech-tutorial.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/nagios-config.png
General Ping Monitoring
You put a host config file in the host config directory and restart nagios. It will then pull the new host in.
/etc/nagios3/conf.d
Contains templates that you can pull into your host config files.
/etc/nagios3/conf.d
is also where you put your host config files.
- Example
define host{
use generic-host ; Name of host template to use
host_name HOSTNAME
alias HOSTNAME
address 192.168.52.20
}
Save that in
/etc/nagios3/conf.d
and
/etc/init.d/nagios3 restart
you should see it pop in
Windows Internal (Private Data) Monitoring
- Installing the Windows Agent
- Download the latest stable version of the NSClient++ addon from http://sourceforge.net/projects/nscplus
- Unzip the NSClient++ files into a new C:\NSClient++ directory
- Open a command prompt and change to the C:\NSClient++ directory
- Register the NSClient++ system service with the following command:
