July 8, 2011
One of my last TechMails to ever be published by TechRepublic is Nagios XI wizards make setup a snap for network monitoring. This tip looks at using Nagios XI, a really slick commercially-backed install of Nagios with a really incredible GUI frontend for configuring Nagios. …
January 20, 2009
This week’s TechMail is Remotely monitor servers with the Nagios check_by_ssh plugin which discusses using the check_by_ssh plugin in Nagios to get local plugin results from remote systems, via ssh. I use this to monitor my VPS and other remote systems so I can see things …
January 15, 2009
This week’s TechMail is Learning more about Nagios for server monitoring which reviews the book Learning NAGIOS 3.0 published by Packt Publishing. This is a pretty decent book for anyone interested in learning more about Nagios. It taught me, who’s been using Nagios …
February 9, 2008
I was bored tonight so I wrote a wrapper for hddtemp for Nagios monitoring. I have a bit of a quirky setup for Nagios where I run the local system checks on remote systems via netcat, ipsvd, and a script to handle the query. This allows me to monitor remote drive space, current …