"The Best Book to
Learn Nagios 4"
This book will introduce
Nagios to readers who are interested in monitoring their systems. All the
concepts in the book are explained in a simplified manner, presented in an
easy-to-understand language with lots of tips, tricks, and illustrations.
This book is great for
system administrators interested in using Nagios to monitor their systems. It
will also help professionals who have already worked with earlier versions of
Nagios to understand the new features of Nagios 4 and provides usable solutions
to real-life problems related to Nagios administration. To effectively use this
book, system administration knowledge is required. If you want to create your
own plug-ins, knowledge of scripting languages like Perl, shell and Python is
expected.
The following topics
covered in this Book
· Install and configure
Nagios to administer your network and system
· Deploy agents and
plug-ins, and monitor assets with advanced features of Nagios
· Notify users of current
and future incidents to protect the availability, performance, and security of
monitored assets
· Configure and work your
way around the Nagios web interface
· Pass service and host
check results over the network using NSCA
· Set up a working and
usable distributed monitoring system using NSClient++
· Develop custom plug-ins
responsible for performing checks and analyzing results
· Use the web interface to
manage scheduled downtimes for hosts and services
· Implement adaptive monitoring
to modify various check-related parameters
· Make use of SSH and NRPE
to perform remote checks
· Use SNMP to retrieve
information from a device, set options, and also cover means for a device to
notify other machines about a failure.
