Chapter 5. Monitoring Methods
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Monitoring PING for any host
- Monitoring SSH for any host
- Checking an alternative SSH port
- Monitoring mail services
- Monitoring web services
- Checking that a website returns a given string
- Monitoring database services
- Monitoring the output of an SNMP query
- Monitoring a RAID or other hardware device
- Creating an SNMP OID to monitor
Introduction
Nagios Core is best thought of as a monitoring framework that uses plugins to perform appropriate checks on hosts and services, and returns results about their states in a format that it understands and can use for sending notifications and keeping track of states on a long-term basis.
The design is quite flexible. As explained in Chapter ...
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