Nagios Core Administration Cookbook

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text are shown as follows: "Nagios Core will only need whatever information the PING tool would need for its own check_ping command".

A block of code is set as follows:

define service {
    use                    generic-service
    host_name              sparta.naginet
    service_description    HTTP
    check_command          check_http
}

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

define host { host_name sparta.naginet alias sparta address 10.128.0.21 max_check_attempts 3 check_period 24x7 check_command check-host-alive ...