Network monitoring with Nagios and OpenBSD

Table of contents

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Installation and base configuration
  • 2.1 Packages installation
  • 2.2 Configuration overview
    • 2.2.1 The main configuration file
    • 2.2.2 The resource file
• 3. Object data configuration
  • 3.1 Timeperiod definition
  • 3.2 Command definition
  • 3.3 Contact definition
  • 3.4 Host definition
  • 3.5 Service definition
• 4. Setting up the web interface
  • 4.1 CGIs configuration
  • 4.2 Apache configuration
  • 4.3 Running Nagios
• 5. Nagios addons
  • 5.1 NRPE
  • 5.2 NSCA
    • 5.2.1 Server configuration
    • 5.2.2 Client configuration
  • 5.3 NagVis and NDO
    • 5.3.1 Installing NDO and MySQL
    • 5.3.2 Configuring NagVis
    • 5.3.3 Maps definition
• 6. Writing your own Nagios plugins
  • 6.1 Command line options
  • 6.2 Plugin return codes
  • 6.3 A sample plugin script
• 7. Appendix
  • 7.1 References
  • 7.2 Bibliography