Nagios Core Administration Cookbook - Second Edition

Creating a new network host

In this recipe, we'll start with the default Nagios Core configuration and set up a host definition for a server that responds to PING on our local network. The end result will be that Nagios Core will add our new host to its internal tables when it starts up and will automatically check it (probably using PING) on a regular basis. In this example, I'll use the example of my Nagios Core monitoring server with the DNS name olympus.example.net and add a host definition for a web server with the DNS name sparta.example.net. This is all on an example network 192.0.2.0/24.

Getting ready

You'll need a working Nagios Core 4.0 or greater installation with a web interface and all the Nagios Core plugins installed. If you have ...