Learning Nagios - Third Edition

Summary

The Nagios web interface is an easy and powerful tool for getting important information from our monitoring software. It allows us to drill down from the top-level overview to the detailed status of any host or service. We can access logs and generate reports, and thanks to the fact that it is web-based, all of it is within reach from virtually any place in the world. All that is required is a web browser and network connection toward our Nagios system.

You learned the following items:

• Checking the overall status with Tactical Overview
• Managing hosts and services
• Scheduling downtimes and adding comments
• Viewing Nagios information and generating reports

In this chapter, we used the built-in, available, and out-of-the-box Nagios Web interface. ...