Building a Monitoring Infrastructure with

Build real-world, end-to-end network monitoring solutions with Nagios This is the definitive guide to building low-cost, enterprise-strength monitoring infrastructures with Nagios, the worldrs"s leading open source monitoring tool. Expert network monitoring specialist David Josephsen goes far beyond the basics, demonstrating how to use third-party tools and plug-ins to solveyourspecific problems inyourunique environment. Josephsen introduces Nagios "from the bottom up," showing how to plan for success and leverage todayrs"s most valuable monitoring best practices. Then, using practical examples, real directives, and working code, Josephsen presents detailed monitoring solutions for Windows, Unix, Linux, network equipment, and other platforms and devices. Yours"ll find thorough discussions of advanced topics, including the use of data visualization to solve complex monitoring problems. This is also the first Nagios book with comprehensive coverage of using Nagios Event Broker to transform and extend Nagios. Understand how Nagios works, in depth: the host and service paradigm, plug-ins, scheduling, and notification Configure Nagios successfully: config files, templates, timeperiods, contacts, hosts, services, escalations, dependencies, and more Streamline deployment with scripting templates, automated discovery, and Nagios GUI tools Use plug-ins and tools to systematically monitor the devices and platformsyouneed to monitor, the wayyouneed to monitor them Establish front-ends, visual dashboards, and management interfaces with MRTG and RRDTool Build new C-based Nagios Event Broker (NEB) modules, one step at a time Contains easy-to-understand code listings for Unix shells and Perl If yours"re responsible for systems monitoring infrastructure inanyorganization, large or small, this bookwill help you achieve the results you want --right from the start. Introduction Chapter 1 Best Practices Chapter 2 Nagios Theory Of Operations Chapter 3 Installing Nagios Chapter 4 Configuring Nagios Chapter 5 Easing Installation Chapter 6 Watching Chapter 7 Visualization Chapter 8 The Nagios Event Broker

Dave Josephsen is the senior systems administrator at DBG, where he maintains a geographically dispersed collection of server farms and occasionally puts paper in the printer. Winner of LISA 2004’s Best Paper Award and author of numerous articles, he enjoys writing about technology, but admittedly, has more fun solving interesting problems and getting his hands dirty with routers, firewalls, load balancers, and UNIX systems. His interests are too numerous to list; he is quite uncomfortable writing about himself in the third person, and he’s having so much fun he can’t believe he’s being paid. (But he’d prefer that you not mention that last bit to his boss or publishers.)

Introduction
Best Practices
Theory of Operations
Installing Nagios
Configuring Nagios
Bootstrapping the Configs
Watching
Visualization
Nagios Event Broker Interface
Configure Options
nagios.cfg and cgi.cfg
Command-Line Options
Index
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