Thanks to guys from Centos.alt.ru CentALT RPM Repository you can now install Nagios 3.5.0 RPM on CentOS. Nagios 3.5.0 RPM is available in their repository so all you need to do is add their CentALT and EPEL repo to your servers and run “yum install nagios”! Here is a Step-by-Step guide on how to get […]
Lately i was migrating my Nagios monitoring server to a new hardware and also a new CentOS version (CentOS 5.9 -> CentOS 6.4). It was a completely new server with new Linux OS installed and everything was configured perfectly. When i migrated Nagios data to a newly installed server and switched the IP addresses, i started […]
About Nagios Configuration This is a quick manual on Nagios configuration files. We will be explaining which configuration files you need to edit to add hosts, services, contacts and groups. Learn how to configure your Nagios from Linux console and check the configuration for errors. In this Nagios configuration How To guide we will explain most of […]
About My Nagios Migration I just finished a project of Nagios migration to a new hardware and also a newer CentOS version and architecture. The IP address of the Nagios server didn’t change! I was migrating Nagios from CentOS 5.9 32bit to CentOS 6.4 64bit and of course the objective was to transfer all of […]
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About NagVis NagVis is an addon to Nagios monitoring and alerting system. It is a way to vizualize Nagios data. It enables you to create maps and schemas of a part or the whole server and network infrastructure. Viewing these maps you can quickly see which hosts and services or even branches of your company […]
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About MK Livestatus MK Livestatus is a completely new approach for accessing status and also historic data from hosts and services in Nagios monitoring and alerting system. Livestatus does not actively write out data. Instead, it opens a socket by which data can be retrieved on demand. The socket allows you to send a request […]
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About Nagios Core Perhaps you’ve heard it before, but let’s hear it again – “Nagios Is The Industry Standard In IT Infrastructure Monitoring”. It is used to for monitoring and alerting of your servers, switches applications and services. It is an open source system, network and application monitoring software. Open source also means it is […]
About CentOS CentOS is a Community ENTerprise Operating System and it is a Linux distribution based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). CentOS in mostly installed on servers in enterprise environments. Since we presume you will be installing CentOS on a server only minimal installation CentOS packages is required. This means no GUI (Graphical User Interface) is installed. About […]
