Chapter 7. Using the Web Interface

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Using the Tactical Overview
  • Viewing and interpreting availability reports
  • Viewing and interpreting trends
  • Viewing and interpreting notification history
  • Adding comments on hosts or services in the web interface
  • Viewing configuration in the web interface
  • Scheduling checks from the web interface
  • Acknowledging a problem via the web interface

Introduction

The Nagios Core web interface is an administrator's first port of call to see the current status of the network being monitored. By way of CGI and PHP scripts, it allows an overview of the general performance of all the hosts and services being monitored. It also provides information about their current states and how checks ...

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