A while back, I wrote an article for Linux Journal's web edition entitled “Howto be a good (and lazy) System Administrator.” A couple astute readers, after reading the article, asked if I was familiar ...

If you are using Nagios to monitor remote servers, you have more than one method to execute checks, including the use of the check_by_ssh plugin. Vincent Danen tells you how to set up this plugin and ...

When I started with the John Deere Agricultural Marketing Center, we had 12 sites around the US and Canada. These locations had a mixture of equipment, older servers and desktops providing all ...

It works with Microsoft, VMware, and Linux. Nagios XI is compliant and is the best choice for end users given its readily accessible source code and growing community-based plug ins. Nagios XI ...

Nagios, called NetSaint in its early versions, is a best of class, industry standard, open source (yes, free!) and fully extendable tool for monitoring networks. With surprising little effort, you can ...

When using Linux in a data center, there are plenty of tools from which to choose. From networking and backup to automation, Linux tools can assist in nearly every aspect of data center operations ...

The free and open-source network monitoring software Nagios Core has a long and strong reputation, providing the base for other monitoring suites – Icinga, Naemon and OP5 among them – and a history ...