Chapter 10. Security and Performance
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Using authentication for the Nagios Core web interface
- Using authenticated contacts
- Writing debugging information to the Nagios log file
- Monitoring Nagios performance with nagiostats
- Setting up a redundant monitoring host
Introduction
Most administrators of midsize networks choose to dedicate an entire server to monitor software and, sometimes, a whole server just for Nagios Core. This is because of the following two main factors that are common to most comprehensive Nagios Core setups:
- They have a lot of privileges because in order to inspect the running state of so many different hosts and services, they need to be conferred with an appropriate network to those ...
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