Nagios Core Administration Cookbook - Second Edition

Preface

Nagios Core, the open source version of the Nagios monitoring framework, is an industry standard for network monitoring hosted on Unix-like systems, such as GNU/Linux or BSD. It is very often used by network and system administrators to check the connectivity between hosts and to ensure that network services are running as expected.

Where home-grown scripts performing network checks can rapidly become unmaintainable and difficult for newer administrators to customize safely, Nagios Core provides a rigorous and configurable monitoring framework to make checks in a consistent manner and to alert appropriate people and systems of any problem it detects.

This makes Nagios Core a very general monitoring framework rather than an out-of-the-box ...