Monitoring Nagios performance with Nagiostats

In this recipe, we'll learn how to use the nagiostats utility to get some statistics about the performance of a Nagios Core process, and the states of the hosts and services that it monitors.

Optionally, we'll also show how to use the mrtg.cfg file built in the Nagios Core source distribution at ./configure time to set up graphs built by mrtg (Multi-Router Traffic Grapher), and link to the graphs in the menu of the web interface. The Nagios Core source distribution includes some files to assist with this, which we'll use here.

Getting ready

You will need a Nagios Core 3.0 or newer server installed and running to invoke nagiostats. Older versions do include the utility, but there is not quite as much ...

Get Nagios Core Administration Cookbook now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.