Learning Nagios

Learning Nagios

English | MP4 | AVC 1280×720 | AAC 48KHz 2ch | 1h 06m | 164 MB

Nagios is an industry-standard, open-source solution, which makes Nagios a great choice to get started in network monitoring and administration. Learn how to use Nagios to monitor system health and gain actionable intelligence about your IT infrastructure, in this course with instructor and DevOps engineer Josh Samuelson. Josh shows how to set up a Nagios server, use plugins, and configure monitoring via the command line. He explains how to set up custom alerts and generate graphs of your data for more comprehensive insights. Plus, learn how to integrate PagerDuty to manage your on-call schedule and escalations and manage alerts remotely.

Topics include:

  • Configuring Nagios
  • Monitoring a server
  • Using nagiosgraph to visualize monitoring data
  • Setting up custom alerts
  • Integrating PagerDuty with Nagios
Table of Contents

Introduction
1 Welcome
2 What you need

Installing Nagios
3 What is Nagios
4 Nagios concepts
5 Set up a learning environment
6 Install Nagios Core and Nagios Plugins
7 Remote plugins

Configuring Nagios
8 Nagios config file basics
9 Monitor a server
10 Complex monitoring

Beyond the Basics
11 Expand your Nagios installation
12 Introduction to PagerDuty
13 Install the PagerDuty Agent
14 nagiosgraph configuration
15 nagiosgraph links
16 Install the PagerDuty webhook
17 Test PagerDuty integration
18 Custom alerting

Conclusion
19 Next steps