Puppet has provided baked-in Nagios support for a long time now. When combined with Exported Resources, Puppet is well suited to manage an intelligent Nagios configuration where nodes are ...

The free and open-source network monitoring software Nagios Core has a long and strong reputation, providing the base for other monitoring suites – Icinga, Naemon and OP5 among them – and a history ...

If you are using Nagios to monitor remote servers, you have more than one method to execute checks, including the use of the check_by_ssh plugin. Vincent Danen tells you how to set up this plugin and ...

Nagios is by far one of the best solutions for monitoring just about everything on a server, and it’s excellent API system means that anything it doesn’t include out of the box can be written in just ...

When I started with the John Deere Agricultural Marketing Center, we had 12 sites around the US and Canada. These locations had a mixture of equipment, older servers and desktops providing all ...