Additional Documentation

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Contents 1 Additional Documentation 2 Nagios 2.1 Installation and Configuration 2.2 Advanced Topics 3 Nagios Addons 4 Miscellaneous

Additional Documentation

Welcome to the User-contributed documentation section of the Wiki. Here you will find links and information to install, configure, and use Nagios along with HOWTOs for Nagios addons such as NRPE & NSCA. All documentation has been written and submitted by the user community.

Nagios

This section hosts short to lengthy write-ups intended to assist with the installation and configuration of Nagios. Operating system specific instructions are separated from non-OS instructions.

Installation and Configuration

OS-Specific Instructions

Generic Instructions

Advanced Topics

• Redundant / Failover Monitoring
• Nagios status and data to JSON export
• Distributed Monitoring
  • PerfData instead of obsessing
• SNMP Monitoring
• Regexp Matching
• Miscellaneous performance tips
  • speed up python plugins

Nagios Addons

This sections hosts write-ups intended to assist with installation and configuration of the NRPE (Nagios Remote Plugin Executor), NSCA (Nagios Service Checks Acceptor), and others.

NRPE & NSCA

Miscellaneous

This section hosts all other articles not categorized above, such as third-party (MRTG, Cacti, Fruity, etc.) addons.

• Miscellaneous
• OCP_Daemon: Using Nagios perfdata files for OCHP/OCSP processing.
• Status Map Images: Making images for the status map.