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Learning Nagios

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Published in Aug 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785885952
Length 414 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Wojciech Kocjan Wojciech Kocjan
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Wojciech Kocjan is a system administrator and programmer with 10 years of experience. His work experience includes several years of using Nagios for enterprise IT infrastructure monitoring. He also has experience with wide variety of devices and servers, routers, Linux, Solaris, AIX servers and i5/OS mainframes. His programming experience includes multiple languages (such as Java, Ruby, Python, and Perl) and focuses on web applications as well as client-server solutions.
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Piotr Beltowski is an IT and software engineer, and co-author of several US patents and publications. A Master of Science in telecommunications, his technical experience includes various aspects of telecommunication, such as designing IP networks or implementing support for network protocols. Piotr's experience as Level 3 customer support lead makes him focused on finding simple solutions to complex technical issues. His professional career includes working in international corporations such as IBM and Ericsson.
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Preface 1. Introducing Nagios FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing Nagios 4 3. Configuring Nagios 4. Using the Built-in Web Interface 5. Using Additional Interfaces 6. Using the Nagios Plugins 7. Advanced Configuration 8. Notifications and Events 9. Passive Checks and NRDP 10. Monitoring Remote Hosts 11. Monitoring Using SNMP 12. Advanced Monitoring 13. Programming Nagios

Chapter 2.  Installing Nagios 4

The previous chapter described what Nagios is, the basic concepts of monitoring, and types of objects in Nagios. This chapter describes how to install Nagios and the standard Nagios plugins.

We will cover multiple ways in which Nagios can be installed and how it can be run —using binary packages from various Linux distributions and building Nagios from source code. We will also discuss how to run Nagios in your machine, using Docker containers as well as run it inside a virtual machine.

We have provided an easy-to-run script that works on most popular Linux distributions including Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. For consistency, we recommend that you use this script for Nagios installation as it will also use the same paths for configuration files, binaries, and statuses that further chapters will refer to.

Also, this script will download and install the latest version of Nagios. Many Linux distributions do not ship latest...

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Piotr Beltowski is an IT and software engineer, and co-author of several US patents and publications. A Master of Science in telecommunications, his technical experience includes various aspects of telecommunication, such as designing IP networks or implementing support for network protocols. Piotr's experience as Level 3 customer support lead makes him focused on finding simple solutions to complex technical issues. His professional career includes working in international corporations such as IBM and Ericsson.
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Wojciech Kocjan is a system administrator and programmer with 10 years of experience. His work experience includes several years of using Nagios for enterprise IT infrastructure monitoring. He also has experience with wide variety of devices and servers, routers, Linux, Solaris, AIX servers and i5/OS mainframes. His programming experience includes multiple languages (such as Java, Ruby, Python, and Perl) and focuses on web applications as well as client-server solutions.
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