Building a real world, end-to-end network monitoring solutions with Nagios This is the definitive guide to building low-cost, enterprise-strength monitoring infrastructures with Nagios, the world? Leading open source monitoring tool. Then, using practical examples, real directives, and working code, Josephsen presents detailed monitoring solutions for Windows, Unix, Linux, network equipment, and other platforms and devices. This is also the first Nagios book with comprehensive coverage of using Nagios Event Broker to transform and extend Nagios. Understand how Nagios works, in depth: the host and service paradigm, plug-ins, scheduling, and notification Configuring Nagios successfully: config files, templates, timeperiods, contacts, hosts, services, escalations, dependencies, and more Streamline deployment with scripting templates , auto discovery, and Nagios GUI tools Use plug-ins and tools to systematically monitor the devices and platforms you need to monitor, how you need to monitor the front-enact their ends, visual dashboards, and management interfaces with MRTG and RRDTool Build new C-based Nagios Event Broker (NEB) modules, one step at a time Contains easy to understand code listings in Unix shell, C, and Perl If you re responsible for infrastructure monitoring systems in every organization, large or small?, This book will help you achieve the results you want? Right from the beginning. David Josephsen is Senior Systems Engineer at dbg, Inc., where he maintains a collection of geographically dispersed server farms. He has published in both; login and Sysadmin magazines on topics relating to security, systems monitoring, and mitigation of spam. Introduction CHAPTER 1 Best Practices CHAPTER 2 Theory of Operation CHAPTER 3 Installing Nagios CHAPTER 4 Configuring Nagios CHAPTER 5 Bootstrapping the configuration CHAPTER 6 Watching CHAPTER 7 Visualization CHAPTER 8 Nagios Event Broker Interface APPENDIX A Configure Options APPENDIX B nagios.cfg and cgi.cfg APPENDIX C Command-Line Options Index