Monitor Web Servers Remotely From Nagios

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We saw in the previous post that Nagios is very good at monitoring the local host on which it is installed, right out-of-the-box and with very little configuration on our part. In this post we see that it is just as easy to setup Nagios to do monitoring of remote servers, and without having to [...]

Installing Nagios Web Interface

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This tutorial assumes you already have your apache webserver configured and running. For an excellent set of scripts that will do this for you check out tuxlite.com. It’s what I use, and the rest of the tutorial is based on that webserver configuration being installed. I prefer the aptitude package installer over the default apt-get [...]

How To Install Nagios on Ubuntu

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I have been evaluating the Nagios monitoring solution on Ubuntu and so far have been very impressed with this free monitoring tool. This will be a series of posts documenting my experiences its installation and configuration. Background For the central monitoring server I am using my home Linux server. It’s Ubuntu running on a small [...]