NAGIOS INTEGRATION
Introduction
Nagios is a powerful, highly extensible open source tool for monitoring network hosts and services. The core Nagios software package will typically be installed on a server or virtual server, the central Nagios server.
Tripp Lite Console Servers can operate in conjunction with a central/upstream Nagios server to provide distributing monitoring of attached network hosts and serial devices. The Console Servers can embed the NSCA (Nagios Service Checks Acceptor) and NRPE (Nagios Remote
The Console Servers embed a basic set of distributed monitoring
Note If you have an existing Nagios deployment, you may wish to use the Console Server in a distributed monitoring server capacity only. In this case and if you are already familiar with Nagios, skip ahead to section 10.3.
10.1 Nagios Overview
Nagios provides central monitoring of the hosts and services in your distributed network. Nagios is freely downloadable, open source software. This section offers a quick background of Nagios and its capabilities. A complete overview, FAQ and comprehensive documentation are available at: http://www.nagios.org
Nagios forms the core of many leading commercial system management solutions such as GroundWork: http://www.groundworkopensource.com
Nagios takes some time to install and configure, but once it is up and running, it provides an outstanding network monitoring system. With Nagios you can:
Display tables showing the status of each monitored server and network service in real time
Use a wide range of freely available
Display warnings and send warning
Assign contact groups who are responsible for specific services in specific time frames
