Adding warning and critical thresholds to nagios

Posted on by David Vassallo

Nugget post The nagios user interface looks something similar to: As can be seen, Nagios marks with green any service within acceptable "tolerances". It marks in orange any warnings, and in red any critical services. In order to control when Nagios marks a service as "warning" and when as "critical", most nagios plugins allow the … Continue reading Adding warning and critical thresholds to nagios

First steps with Nagios

Posted on by David Vassallo

In a previous post I described the installation of Nagios on a Linux machine. In this post i'll note my steps to monitor a couple of services. First of all, I must point out that the official Nagios site has some excellent documentation to get you started. Secondly, even though in one of my previous … Continue reading First steps with Nagios