Chapter 4. Using the Nagios Plugins
The previous chapter discussed the basic configuration of host and service checking. Nagios can be set up to check if your services are up and running. This chapter describes in detail how these checks work. It also introduces some of the Nagios plugins that are developed as a part of Nagios and as a part of the Nagios plugins project.
Nagios' strength comes from its ability to monitor servers and the services that they offer in a large number of ways. What's more interesting is that all of these ways make sure that your services are functional, external plugins, and work in quite an easy way. Many of these are even shipped with Nagios, as we mentioned in Chapter 2, Installing Nagios 4. Therefore, it is possible ...
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