Chapter 10. Security and Performance
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Requiring authentication for the web interface
- Using authenticated contacts
- Writing debugging information to the Nagios log file
- Monitoring Nagios performance with Nagiostats
- Improving startup times with pre-cached object files
- Setting up a redundant monitoring host
Introduction
Most administrators of even mid-size networks will choose to dedicate an entire server to monitoring software, and sometimes a whole server just for Nagios Core. This is because of two main factors common to most comprehensive Nagios Core setups:
- They have a lot of privileges, because in order to inspect the running state of so many different hosts and services, they need to be conferred ...
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