March 13, 2013I like Nagios. I mean, I like monitoring in general, but I like Nagios because it doesn't necessarily tell me what I have to monitor, and it especially doesn't tell me how I have to monitor it. It's very extensible, and although it certainly has flaws, I think it's a good, solid, reliable system that [...]
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April 28, 2012I like Nagios a lot. Actually, I really just like monitoring the status of my resources and services, and I like incredibly flexible software that allows you to do whatever you want in order to accomplish your goals. In other words, Nagios. It's not without its warts, but it is software that I've used for [...]
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January 21, 2012The thought occurs to me that there is a lot of concern about the health of SSDs by admins who don't have a lot of experience with them. I don't have a lot of experience with them either, but I've spent a decent amount of time learning how they work, why they fail, and reading [...]
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October 25, 2010Last year, I presented a Nagios presentation at the Professional IT Community Conference, and I promised to get the contents of the USB key online Real Soon Now(tm). Well, guess what? It's finally done! That's right, you can download the contents of the key right here. The zipfile should unpack into a directory called "Keeping [...]
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July 20, 2009Although this is a HOWTO, ironically, it doesn't cover the actual configuration of Nagios. It covers the part of the configuration that might actually be harder than creating hosts, groups, and services. It covers how to organize your configuration directory in a way that makes it easiest to add new hosts, groups, services and commands [...]
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May 8, 2009Jack Hughes over at The Tech Teapot posted today that Nagios has been forked. Apparently the lead developer (and sole person with commit access) has been very busy and not committing updates. This caused some self-described protagonists to launch "Icinga". It's going to be very interesting to see where this goes. I personally hope that [...]
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