Index

A

• $ARG1$ / There's more...
• $ARG2$ / There's more...
• acknowledgement / There's more...
• action_url directive / How it works...
• address / How it works...
• address directive / How to do it...
• alias / How it works..., How it works...
• allowed_hosts directive / There's more...
• Apache HTTPD server
  • URL / Getting ready
• Assume Initial States / How it works..., How it works...
• Assume State Retention / How it works..., How it works...
• Assume States During Program Downtime / How it works...
• authenticated contacts
  • using / Using authenticated contacts, Getting ready, How to do it..., How it works...
• authorized_for_all_hosts directive / How to do it..., How it works...
• authorized_for_all_host_commands directive / How it works...
• authorized_for_all_services directive / How to do it..., How it works...
• authorized_for_all_service_commands directive / How it works...
• authorized_for_configuration_information directive / How it works...
• authorized_for_read_only directive / There's more...
• authorized_for_system_commands directive / How it works...
• authorized_for_system_information directive / How it works...
• Availability Report
  • about / Viewing and interpreting availability reports, How to do it...
  • service state breakdowns / How to do it...
  • Report period / How it works...
  • Report time Period / How it works...
  • Assume State Retention / How it works...
  • Assume Initial States / How it works...
  • Assume States During Program Downtime / How it works...
  • Include Soft States / How it works...
  • First Assumed Host State or First Assumed Service State / How it works...
  • Backtracked Archives / How it works...

B

• Backtracked Archives / How it works..., How it works...

C

• -c parameter / There's more..., There's more...
• c, service dependency / How it works...
• calpe.naginet router / Getting ready
• cfg_dir directive / How to do it...
• cfg_file directive / Getting ready
• CGI Security and Authentication
  • URL / Introduction
• checks
  • scheduling, from web interface / Scheduling checks from the web interface, How to do it...
• check_by_ssh plugin / Introduction, Using check_by_ssh with key authentication instead of NRPE, How it works...
• check_cluster command / How it works...
• check_cluster plugin / Monitoring individual nodes in a cluster
• check_command / How it works..., There's more..., How it works...
• check_command definition / How it works...
• check_command directive / Getting ready, How to do it..., How it works..., There's more...
• check_command plugin / Introduction, How to do it..., Changing thresholds for PING RTT and packet loss, Getting ready
• check_dummy command / How it works...
• check_http / Creating a new HTTP service
• check_http plugin / Getting ready, There's more..., There's more...
• check_http_alt command / How it works...
• check_http_altport command / Customizing an existing command
• check_imap command / How it works...
• check_interval / How it works..., How it works...
• check_load plugin / Using check_by_ssh with key authentication instead of NRPE
• check_mysql_query plugin / There's more...
• check_nagios plugin / How it works...
• check_nrpe command / How to do it...
• check_nrpe plugin / Introduction, How it works...
• check_nrpe request / There's more...
• check_nrpe requests / How to do it...
• check_period / How it works..., How it works...
• check_period plugin / How to do it..., How it works...
• check_ping command / Getting ready, How to do it...
• check_ping program / There's more...
• check_pop command / How it works...
• check_rsync_backup / There's more...
• check_smtp command / How it works...
• check_snmp plugin / Introduction
• check_snmp_linux_procs command / How it works...
• check_ssh command / How to do it..., How it works, There's more..., How to do it...
• check_ssh plugin / There's more...
• check_ssh script / Defining macros in a resource file
• check_ssh_altport command / How it works...
• check_swap plugin / How to do it...
• check_total_procs command / How it works...
• c notification / How it works...
• command
  • new command, creating for plugin / Creating a new command, How it works...
• command_line directive / How it works..., How it works...
• command_name directive / Defining macros in a resource file
• Comment / How to do it...
• Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) / Getting ready
• configuration
  • placing, under version control / Keeping configuration under version control, How it works...
  • simplifying, inheritance used / Using inheritance to simplify configuration, How to do it..., How it works...
• configuration files
  • grouping, in directories / Grouping configuration files in directories, How it works..., There's more...
• config_file definition / How to do it...
• contactgroup
  • creating / Creating a new contactgroup
  • creating, steps for / How to do it..., How it works...
• contact rotation
  • automating / Automating contact rotation, How to do it..., How it works...
• contacts / How it works...
• contacts directive / How it works...
• contact_group definition / How to do it...
• contact_groups / How it works...
• contact_name / How it works...
• contact_name directive / How it works...
• corinth.naginet host / How it works...
• corsica.naginet server / There's more...
• corsica.naginet web server / Getting ready
• CRITICAL state / There's more..., How it works...

D

• d, host dependency / How it works...
• database services
  • monitoring / Monitoring database services, Getting ready, How to do it...
• debugging log file
  • about / Writing debugging information to a Nagios log file, How to do it...
• debug_level directive / How it works...
• default_statusmap_layout directive / How it works...
• default_user_name directive / How it works...
• dependent_host_name directive, host dependency / How it works...
• dependent_service_description directive, service dependency / How it works...
• directories
  • configuration files, grouping in / Grouping configuration files in directories, How it works..., There's more...
• d notification / How it works...
• Domain Name System (DNS) / Creating a new network host
• Domain Name System (DNS) zone / There's more...
• DOWN notification / How it works...
• DOWN state / How to do it...
• downtime / There's more...
• Drawing Layers / There's more...
• Drawing Layers option / There's more...

E

• --expect / There's more...
• e-mail contact
  • creating / Creating a new e-mail contact, How to do it..., How it works...
• email / How it works...
• escalation
  • defining, for repeated notifications / Defining an escalation for repeated notifications, Getting ready, How it works...
• event handler script
  • setting up / Setting up an event handler script, How to do it..., How it works..., There's more...
• eventhandlers directory / How it works...
• event_handler command / How it works...
• execution_failure_criteria directive, host dependency / How it works...
• execution_failure_criteria directive, service dependency / How it works...

F

• failed checks
  • about / Tolerating a certain number of failed checks, How to do it..., How it works...
• First Assumed Host State or First Assumed Service State / How it works..., How it works...
• first_notification / How it works...
• flapping percentage thresholds
  • adjusting, for service / Adjusting flapping percentage thresholds for a service, How it works...
• f notification / How it works...

G

• GD2 library / How it works...
• generic-host template / How it works...
• generic-service template / How to do it...
• GNU m4
  • URL / Getting ready
• groups
  • used, for configuring host roles / Configuring host roles using groups, How to do it..., There's more...
  • building, regular expressions used / Building groups using regular expressions, How to do it..., How it works...

H

• $HOSTADDRESS$ / There's more...
• $HOSTSTATEID
  • hostname$ macros / How it works...
• -H option / There's more...
• -H parameter / There's more...
• handle-master-proc-event
  • $SERVICESTATE$ argument / How it works...
  • $SERVICESTATETYPE$ argument / How it works...
  • $SERVICEATTEMPT$ argument / How it works...
• HARD CRITICAL state / How it works...
• hardware device
  • monitoring / Monitoring a RAID or other hardware device, How to do it...
• high_flap_threshold / How it works...
• Histogram report / How to do it...
• host
  • checking, frequency for / Introduction, How to do it..., How it works..., There's more...
  • downtime, scheduling for / Scheduling downtime for a host or service, How to do it..., How it works...
  • PING, monitoring / Monitoring PING for any host
  • SSH, monitoring / Getting ready
  • SSH service check, adding / How to do it...
  • web service checks, adding / How to do it...
• host definitions
  • building, dynamically / Dynamically building host definitions, How to do it..., How it works...
• host dependency
  • establishing / Establishing a host dependency, How to do it...
  • directives / How it works...
  • host_name directive / How it works...
  • dependent_host_name directive / How it works...
  • execution_failure_criteria directive / How it works...
  • o / How it works...
  • d / How it works...
  • u / How it works...
  • p / How it works...
  • notification_failure_criteria directive / How it works...
  • hostgroup_name directive / There's more...
  • dependent_hostgroup_name directive / There's more...
• hostextinfo object / How it works...
• hostgroup
  • creating / Creating a new hostgroup, How to do it..., There's more...
• hostgroups directive / How to do it...
• hostgroup_members directive / There's more...
• hostgroup_name directive / There's more..., There's more..., There's more...
• host roles
  • configuring, groups used / Configuring host roles using groups, How to do it..., There's more...
• hosts
  • alternative check command, using / Using an alternative check command for hosts, How to do it..., There's more...
  • icons, selecting / Choosing icons for hosts, How to do it..., How it works...
• host state
  • tracking, with Nagiosgraph / Tracking host and service states with Nagiosgraph, Getting ready, How to do it..., There's more...
• host_name / How it works..., How it works..., How it works...
• host_name directive, host dependency / How it works...
• host_name directive, service dependency / How it works...
• host_notification_commands / How it works...
• host_notification_options / How it works...
• host_notification_period / How it works...
• host_notification_period directive / How it works...
• HTTP service
  • creating / Creating a new HTTP service, Getting ready, How to do it..., How it works...

I

• --invert-regex flag / There's more...
• icons
  • selecting, for hosts / Choosing icons for hosts, How to do it..., How it works...
• icon_image_alt directive / How it works...
• Include Soft States / How it works..., How it works...
• individual nodes
  • in cluster, monitoring / Monitoring individual nodes in a cluster, How to do it..., How it works...
• inheritance
  • used, for simplifying configuration / Using inheritance to simplify configuration, How to do it..., How it works...
• INSTALL document / Getting ready
• ithaca.naginet host / How it works...

J

• janus.naginet router / Getting ready

K

• kill command / How to do it...

L

• last_notification / How it works...
• Layer mode / There's more...
• Layout Method / There's more...
• Liferea
  • URL / How to do it...
• local services
  • monitoring on remote machine, with NRPE / Monitoring local services on a remote machine with NRPE, Getting ready, How to do it..., How it works..., There's more...
• low_flap_threshold / How it works...

M

• --mrtg option / How it works...
• macros
  • defining, in resource file / Defining macros in a resource file, How to do it..., There's more...
• mail services
  • monitoring / Monitoring mail services, How to do it..., How it works..., There's more...
• MAIL_LOGIN service / Getting ready
• Makefile syntax / There's more...
• max_check_attempts / How it works..., How it works..., How it works...
• max_debug_file_size directive / There's more...
• mrtg (Multi-Router Traffic Grapher) / Monitoring Nagios performance with Nagiostats

N

• Nagios
  • Tuning for Maximum Performance, URL / Introduction
• nagiosadmin user / Getting ready
• Nagios Core
  • about / Introduction, Introduction
  • configuration / Introduction
  • plugin / Introduction
  • notifications / Introduction
  • URL / Introduction
  • macros / How it works...
• Nagios Core configuration
  • verifying / How to do it..., How it works...
• Nagios Core objects configuration directory / How to do it...
• Nagios Core reports
  • customised reports, writing / Writing customized Nagios Core reports, How to do it...
• Nagios Core server
  • securing, tips for / Introduction
  • redundant monitoring host, setting up / How to do it..., How it works...
• Nagios Core web interface
  • authentication for / Requiring authentication for the web interface, How to do it..., How it works...
  • authenticated contacts, using / Using authenticated contacts, How to do it..., How it works...
• Nagios Exchange
  • URL / There's more..., There's more..., Introduction
  • about / There's more...
• Nagiosgraph
  • about / Introduction
  • host state, tracking / Tracking host and service states with Nagiosgraph, Getting ready
  • service state, tracking / Tracking host and service states with Nagiosgraph, Getting ready
• Nagios log file
  • debugging information, writing / Writing debugging information to a Nagios log file
• Nagios performance
  • monitoring, with Nagiostats / Monitoring Nagios performance with Nagiostats, How to do it..., How it works...
• Nagios Plugins
  • about / Introduction
• Nagios Remote Plugin Executor (NRPE) / There's more...
• Nagiostats
  • used, for monitoring Nagios performance / Monitoring Nagios performance with Nagiostats, How to do it..., How it works...
• NagVis
  • about / Introduction, Getting extra visualizations with NagVis
  • installing, with NDO backend / How to do it..., How it works...
• NagVis extension / There's more...
• Natural Earth website
  • URL / Getting ready
• ndo2db / How it works...
• NDO backend
  • NagVis, installing / How to do it..., How it works...
• ndomod / How it works...
• NDOUtils
  • about / Introduction, Reading status into a MySQL database with NDOUtils
  • installing / How to do it...
  • downloading / How to do it...
• Net-SNMP / Getting ready
• network host
  • creating / Creating a new network host, Getting ready, How to do it...
  • working / How it works...
• network host hierarchy
  • creating / Creating a network host hierarchy, Getting ready
  • parent-child relationship, configuring for hosts / How to do it..., How it works...
• network map
  • using / Using the network map
  • using, steps for / How to do it...
  • working / How it works...
  • using, as overlay / Using the network map as an overlay, Getting ready
  • background, setting up / How to do it...
• new time period
  • creating, steps for / How to do it..., How it works..., There's more...
• notification history
  • about / Viewing and interpreting notification history
  • overview / How to do it...
  • Histogram report / How to do it...
  • working / How it works...
• notifications
  • about / Introduction
  • periods, configuring / Configuring notification periods, How to do it..., How it works...
  • configuring, for groups / Configuring notification for groups, How to do it...
  • types, configuring for hosts / How to do it..., How it works...
  • escalation, defining for repeated notifications / Defining an escalation for repeated notifications, How it works...
  • custom notification method, defining / Defining a custom notification method, How to do it..., How it works..., There's more...
• notification_failure_criteria directive, host dependency / How it works...
• notification_failure_criteria directive, service dependency / How it works...
• notification_interval / How it works..., How it works..., How it works...
• notification_option flag / How it works...
• notification_options directive
  • d notification / How it works...
  • u notification / How it works...
  • r notification / How it works...
  • f notification / How it works...
  • s notification / How it works...
• notification_period / How it works..., How it works...
• notification_period plugin / How to do it..., How it works...
• NRPE
  • local services, monitoring on remote machine / Monitoring local services on a remote machine with NRPE
  • listening address, setting / Setting the listening address for NRPE, Getting ready, How it works...
  • allowed client hosts, setting / Setting allowed client hosts for NRPE, How to do it..., How it works..., There's more...
  • command definitions, creating securely / Creating new NRPE command definitions securely, How to do it..., How it works..., There's more...
  • sudo privileges, giving / Giving limited sudo privileges to NRPE, How to do it...
  • limited sudo privileges, giving / Giving limited sudo privileges to NRPE, How to do it..., How it works...
• nrpe.cfg parameter / There's more...
• nrpe daemon / How to do it...
• NSCA
  • about / Introduction
  • passive checks, submitting from remote hosts / Submitting passive checks from a remote host with NSCA, How to do it..., How it works..., There's more...

O

• o, host dependency / How it works...
• o, service dependency / How it works...
• on-call roster / Automating contact rotation

P

• -p parameter / There's more..., There's more...
• p, host dependency / How it works...
• p, service dependency / How it works...
• packet loss
  • thresholds, changing / Changing thresholds for PING RTT and packet loss, How to do it...
• parent-child relationship
  • configuring / How to do it...
• parent host / Getting ready
• passive checks
  • allowing / Allowing and submitting passive checks, Getting ready, How to do it...
  • submitting from remote host, with NSCA / Submitting passive checks from a remote host with NSCA, How to do it..., How it works..., There's more...
  • submitting, in SNMP traps response / Submitting passive checks in response to SNMP traps, Getting ready, How to do it...
• Persistent Comment / How to do it...
• PING / Creating a new network host
  • monitoring, for host / Monitoring PING for any host, How to do it...
• PING RTT
  • thresholds, changing / Changing thresholds for PING RTT and packet loss
• plugin
  • about / Introduction
  • finding / Finding a plugin
  • finding, steps for / How to do it..., How it works...
  • installing / Installing a plugin, How to do it...
  • downloading / How to do it...
  • working / How it works...
  • removing / Removing a plugin, There's more...
  • new command, creating / Creating a new command, How it works...
  • new service, creating / Customizing an existing command, How it works..., There's more...
  • new plugin, creating from scratch / Writing a new plugin from scratch, How to do it..., How it works..., There's more...
• PNP4Nagios
  • URL / There's more...
• pre-cached object files
  • startup times, improving / Improving startup times with pre-cached object files, How to do it...
• precached_object_file directive / How it works...

Q

• QuickStart guide
  • URL / Getting ready

R

• RAID
  • monitoring / Monitoring a RAID or other hardware device, How to do it...
• redundant monitoring host
  • setting up / Setting up a redundant monitoring host, Getting ready
  • setting up, for Nagios Core server / How to do it..., How it works...
• regular expressions
  • used, for building groups / Building groups using regular expressions, How to do it..., How it works...
• remote hosts
  • passive checks submitting from, with NSCA / Submitting passive checks from a remote host with NSCA, How to do it..., How it works..., There's more...
• Report period / How it works..., How it works...
• Report time Period / How it works...
• resource file
  • macros, defining / Defining macros in a resource file, How to do it..., There's more...
• retry_interval / How it works..., How it works...
• retry_interval command / There's more...
• retry_interval directive / How to do it...
• r notification / How it works...
• Round Trip Tim (RTT) / How to do it...
• Round Trip Time (RTT) / How to do it...
• rsync module / How it works...

S

• --string / How it works...
• Scaling factor / There's more...
• securing, Nagios Core server
  • tips for / Introduction
• Send Notification / How to do it...
• service
  • running, on hosts in group / Running a service on all hosts in a group, How to do it..., There's more...
  • new service, creating / Customizing an existing command, How it works..., There's more...
  • checking, frequency for / Introduction
  • downtime, scheduling for / How to do it..., How it works...
  • flapping percentage thresholds, adjusting for / Adjusting flapping percentage thresholds for a service, How it works..., There's more...
• service dependency
  • establishing / Establishing a service dependency, How to do it...
  • host_name directive / How it works...
  • service_description directive / How it works...
  • dependent_service_description directive / How it works...
  • execution_failure_criteria directive / How it works...
  • o / How it works...
  • w / How it works...
  • c / How it works...
  • u / How it works...
  • p / How it works...
  • notification_failure_criteria directive / How it works...
• servicegroup
  • creating / Getting ready, How to do it..., How it works..., There's more...
• service state
  • tracking, with Nagiosgraph / Tracking host and service states with Nagiosgraph, Getting ready, How to do it..., There's more...
• service state trends
  • about / How to do it..., How it works...
• service_description / How it works...
• service_description directive / How to do it...
• service_description directive, service dependency / How it works...
• service_description plugin / How it works...
• service_notification_commands / How it works...
• service_notification_options / How it works...
• service_notification_period / How it works...
• service_notification_period directive / How it works...
• service_perfdata_file_processing_command directive / How it works...
• Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) / Introduction
• SNMP OID
  • creating, to monitor / Creating an SNMP OID to monitor
  • custom setup / How to do it...
• SNMP traps / Getting ready
• SNMP Trap Translator / Getting ready
• snmptt handler / How it works...
• snmpwalk command / Getting ready
• s notification / How it works...
• SOFT state / How to do it...
• sparta.naginet.cfg / How it works...
• sparta.naginet server / How it works...
• SSH
  • monitoring, for host / Monitoring SSH for any host, How to do it..., There's more...
  • alternative SSH port, checking / Checking an alternative SSH port, How to do it..., How it works..., There's more...
• SSH service check
  • adding, to host / How to do it...
• startup times
  • improving, with pre-cached object files / Improving startup times with pre-cached object files, How to do it..., There's more...
• statusmap_image directive / How it works...
• Sticky Acknowledgement / How to do it...
• Sticky Acknowledgement option / How it works...
• submit_check_result handler / How it works...
• Suppress image map / How it works...
• Suppress popups / How it works..., There's more...

T

• Tactical Monitoring Overview screen / How to do it...
• Tactical Overview
  • about / Using the Tactical Overview
  • Tactical Monitoring Overview screen / How to do it...
  • working / How it works..., There's more...
• Tactical Overview section / How to do it...
• telnet tool / Getting ready
• thresholds
  • changing, for PING RTT / Changing thresholds for PING RTT and packet loss
  • changing, for packet loss / Changing thresholds for PING RTT and packet loss
• time period
  • creating / Creating a new time period

U

• $USER1$ / There's more...
• u, host dependency / How it works...
• u, service dependency / How it works...
• u notification / How it works...
• UNREACHABLE notification / How to do it...
• UNREACHABLE notifications / How it works...
• UNREACHABLE state / How to do it...
• use_regexp_matching directive set / How it works...

V

• version control
  • configuration, placing / Keeping configuration under version control, How it works...

W

• -w parameter / There's more..., There's more...
• w, service dependency / How it works...
• web interface
  • comments, adding on services / Adding comments on hosts or services in the web interface, How to do it..., How it works...
  • comments, adding on hosts / Adding comments on hosts or services in the web interface, How to do it..., How it works...
  • configuration, viewing / Viewing configuration in the web interface, How to do it..., How it works...
  • checks, scheduling / Scheduling checks from the web interface, How to do it...
  • used, for acknowledging problem / Acknowledging a problem via the web interface, How to do it..., How it works..., There's more...
  • authentication, using / Requiring authentication for the web interface
  • working / How it works...
• WEBMAIL_LOGIN service / There's more...
• web services
  • monitoring / Monitoring web services
  • checks, adding for hosts / How to do it..., There's more...
• website
  • string, returning / Checking that a website returns a given string, How to do it...
• w notification / How it works...