Hungerford Web Design Blog

PART 1

Nagios is (IMHO) the de-facto standard in website and server monitoring. It has been around for quite some time. Here I will talk through the functionality and how to install and configure Nagios.

We shall shortly be offering remote monitoring, configuration and alerting as a service, please contact us if this is something you would like to discuss.

For the purposes of this tutorial, I will be installing Nagios on a Fedora Core server and monitoring a remote CentOS server through linux firewalls and a router with NAT (though if you are not usng firewalls you can simply ignore those steps).

Continue reading »

Technorati Tags: Array, Connectivity, Core Server, Cpu Load, De Facto Standard, Fedora Core, Firewalls, Free Space, Free Ssh, Functionality, Gmail, Green Ok, Linux Firewalls, Linux Router, Monitoring Tool, Partition Size, Remote Monitoring, Root Partition, Running Processes, Server Monitoring, Service Outages, Size Space, Ssh, Threshold, Zombie Processes