About This Book

This book is directed at network administrators who want to find out about the condition of their systems and networks using an Open Source tool. It describes the Nagios versions 2.x and 3.0. The plugins, on the other hand, lead their own lives, are to a great extent independent of Nagios, and are therefore not restricted to a particular version.

Even though this book is based upon using Linux as the operating system for the Nagios computer, this is not a requirement. Most descriptions also apply to other Unix systems,[7] only system-specific details such as start scripts need to be adjusted accordingly. Nagios currently does not officially work under Windows, however.[8]

The first part of this book deals with getting Nagios up and ...

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