Quick 'n basic guide to setting up Nagios email notifications

Nagios has quite a complex notification system. It can notify network admins of problems using a large variety of methods, such as emails, pagers, IM and so on. In this quick guide I note the procedure I followed to send email notifications to testlab network admins. 1. Installed the postfix package as described in the … Continue reading Quick 'n basic guide to setting up Nagios email notifications

Importing custom SNMP MIBS to Nagios

In some network enviornments, it is often necessary to import vendor specific SNMP MIB. A MIB is an information database which contains all the SNMP "variables" that can be read from a particular node. It goes without saying, that different nodes will have different SNMP capabilities. Most of these are standardised and can be retrieved … Continue reading Importing custom SNMP MIBS to Nagios