Configuring Nagios

Nagios is a Network monitoring software which uses samba server to serve the localhost with all the monitored information of the network. It actively monitors specified services on specified hosts. I was looking for a tool to put it in the server of the computer lab so that we could do some remote monitoring of the clients. I was successful a bit, as i couldn't remotely ssh clients to run some scripts. I think i have to work more on it so that i could learn all the features of Nagios.

Configuring Nagios

I followed the guide provided by http://www.myelin.co.nz/post/2008/10/30/#200810301 . I successfully confgiured Nagios on a system. The toughest job was to put all the hosts on the hosts.cfg file in the nagios3/conf.d/
I had manually enter all the 150 odd local ip's in the file. Then success came fast then expected. i was seeing screen which filled my heart with happiness. Nagios is a perfect package for remotely monitoring clients.


I also consulted some guys on irc chat who specified to use these tools for remotely running shell scripts on clients :

1. DSH
2. PyDSH
3. Puppet
4. CFengine
5. Fai-server

If time allows, i would explore the above mentioned and put them in my blog. Or may be i would unlock the ssh feature in Nagios itself.