Summary

There are multiple additional interfaces to Nagios that can be used to check the status as well as perform typical operations, such as scheduling checks, acknowledging problems, adding comments, and scheduling downtime.

We have covered the following types of additional web interfaces:

  • Dashboards for showing the overall Nagios status
  • Visualizing performance data with Nagiosgraph
  • Command line interfaces
  • Checking the Nagios status from mobile devices

Chapter 6, Using the Nagios Plugins,will cover the standard set of Nagios plugins that allow us to perform checks of various services. We will go through monitoring standard services such as e-mail and web and database servers. You will also learn how to monitor resources such as CPU usage, storage, ...

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