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Nagios: How RPMs provide compliance to the SDLC

Nagios is an enterprise grade host and service monitoring application if properly deployed. Compiling Nagios from a tar file does not meet enterprise standards. Enterprise standards require adherence...

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Nagios: Anatomy of an RPM using NRPE and the packaged nrpe.spec

This article will deal with the anatomy of a RPM. Building an RPM is not hard. However, configuring the RPM for you environment can be confusing. RPMs enable the system administrator and more...

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Nagios: rpms required for sles10 installation

Suse Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) is an enterprise grade server operating system. The open source equivalent is Opensuse. Novell has moved SLES further into the business server OS class after their...

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Nagios: Establishing parent – child relationship is both easy and required

An important feature of Nagios is the ability to create parent – child relationships. Parent – child relationships exist throughout the information technology world. Programmers create applications...

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Nagios: Directory and file structure considerations

The article by Matt Simmons, Nagios Configuration HOWTO is a good general overview of setting up configuration file templates to decrease maintenance while increasing performance and functionality. I...

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Suggestion for testing Nagios Configurations and Sendmail

In an ideal world, organizations will have a test, development and production environment. Many times that is not the case and System Administrators need to work on an obscure server. However, don’t...

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Working with check_http and check_bigip_pool to monitor web sites

Happy New Year! Here is a little tip on how we used the check_http and check_bigip_pool to eliminate our need for WebTrends. The servers being monitored are in the DMZ and the Nagios host is inside our...

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Nagios: Quick MySQL replication for your Nagios installation

MySQL is the favorite database utility for opensource software. Nagios and Nagios XI use MySQL to store data for retrieval by end-users. The retrieval process becomes evident when you install NDOutils...

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Nagios RPMs bundled with Novell’s SLES

Novell has bundled Nagios with SLES. You can deploy Nagios by compiling the binaries or using the RPMs provided with SLES. This article will address installation and configuration of Nagios using the...

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Checking virtual machines (VM) on SLES through the Xen host

Everyone should have heard about a “green” computer room at this point. The key concept behind a green computer room is vitalization.  Many organizations have implemented a Xen environment within a...

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