Nagios Core is the monitoring and alerting engine that serves as the primary application around which hundreds of Nagios projects are built. Download for Free Try an Online Demo Nagios Core serves as the basic event scheduler, event processor, and alert manager for elements that are monitored. We must install Nagios plugins. Plugins are standalone extensions to Nagios Core that make it possible to monitor anything and everything with Core. Plugins process command-line arguments, perform a specific check, and then return the results to Nagios Core.
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About Nagios
Visit www.nagios.org/about/ for more information on Nagios - including features, capabilities, and technical specifications.
Installation Introduction
These Easy Setup guides are intended to provide you with simple instructions on how to install Nagios from source (code) and have it monitoring your local machine inside of 20 minutes. No advanced installation options are discussed here - just the basics that will work for 95% of users who want to get started.
Installation Guides
Easy Setup installation guides are currently available for the following Linux distributions:
If you are installing Nagios on an operating system or Linux distribution that isn't listed above, read the Fedora Easy Setup for an overview of what you'll need to do. Command names, paths, etc. vary widely across different OSes/distributions, so you'll likely need to tweak the installation docs a bit to work for your particular case.
Post-Installation Configuration
Once you get Nagios installed and running properly, you'll no doubt want to start monitoring more than just your local machine. Check out the following docs on how to set up the Nagios Core configuratio and go about monitoring more things ...
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Enhance Nagios Core - Community Addons
Hundreds of community-developed addons provide additional GUIs and reporting, monitoring, and notification functionalities for Nagios. Visit the Nagios Exchange website at exchange.nagios.org to see some really cool things you can use to trick out your Nagios installation.
Nagios Library
Visit the Nagios Library at library.nagios.com for Nagios tutorials, videos, documentation, and more.
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