New to Nagios? If you need an overall idea, look at these files that are stored in directories on a Linux machine. (Once Nagios installed of course). Configure your stuff and monitor an enterprise-class network or use “distributed nagios” (use the search box) to monitor a global network.
Here is another aide-memoir. It is a diagram of Nagios in a distributed monitoring configuration (click to view full-screen) Read more…
The check_ups plugin was created to facilitate monitoring of a number of UPS vendor products. To use the plugin you will need to install UPSD daemon distributed with Russel Kroll’s Smart UPS Tools on the remote host. (See the REQUIREMENTS at the end of this post).
I do however believe that this plugin works with the old NUT API, which has been deprecated when switching from 1.4 to 2.0 version of NUT.
These are specified in the $NAGIOSHOME/etc/checkcommands.cfg file. Where there are parameters available for a command, these can be passed through from services.cfg.
The statusbar indicator of the events from Nagios is parsed from the Nagios web interface. It is succesfully tested with Nagios 3, 2.5+, 2.0b4, 1.5, 1.3 and 1.2. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3607
Here is a list of 10 nagios 2.x web frontends that you might find useful if you are looking for a web interface to administer your nagios configuration. Read more…
An aide-memoir – View the Nagios Object Diagram: Read more…
