Who should attend?

• Current or potential system administrators who need to administer, integrate and use Nagios as a monitoring solution. Having Linux/Unix/*nix basic knowledge (RHCE/RHCT/LPI/Linux+)

Course objective:

• This course will provide the trainee the understanding of the conceptual framework of Nagios, are able to install and maintain Nagios and have experience to intelligently integrate Nagios into their IT environment.

At the end of the course, trainees will learn how to:

Monitoring Services

Hostgroup Configuration

Servicegroup Configuration

Terminology

Check Scheduling

Network Security

Event Handlers

Network Monitoring Tools

Runtime Modification of Nagios Parameters Notifications & Logging

System Requirements

Sending Notification via E-mail

Nagios Terminology

Scheduling the Notification

Host Checks & Service Checks

Host and Service Dependencies

Hostgroups

Network Diagram by Nagios

Contacts

Flapping Service Detection

Contactgroup

Volatile Services

Notifications

Nagios Remote Plugin Executor

State types - SOFT, HARD

Installation and Configuration of NRPE

Time periods

Monitoring Local Resource from Remote Nagios Server

Event Handlers

check_nrpe plugin

Addons & Plugins

Xinetd Modification for NRPE

Nagios Installation and Configuration and Nagios Plugins

Nagios Dependencies

Basic Plugins using Shellscrips

Installing of Nagios

Defining Nagios Commands

Nagios Configuration

Plugin Return Codes

Object Configuration

Text Output from the Plugin

CGI Configuration

NSClient ++

Authentication Using htpasswd

Installation of NSClient++

Network Monitoring Using Nagios

check_nt plugin

Monitoring Network Devices

Publicly Enabled Service (HTTP,FTP etc.) - check_nt definition

Monitoring Local Process of windows

This course will also provide the trainee the understanding of the Nagios plug-in architecture

Distributed Monitoring

Nagios optimization for large (enterprise deployment)

Plug-in-Architecture

How to create own check-plugins