Nagios Core Administration Cookbook

Chapter 1. Understanding Hosts, Services, and Contacts

In this chapter we will cover the following recipes:

• Creating a new network host
• Creating a new HTTP service
• Creating a new e-mail contact
• Verifying configuration
• Creating a new hostgroup
• Creating a new servicegroup
• Creating a new contactgroup
• Creating a new time period
• Running a service on all hosts in a group

Introduction

Nagios Core is appropriate for monitoring services and states on all sorts of hosts, and one of its primary advantages is that the configuration can be as simple or as complex as required. Many Nagios Core users will only ever use the software as a way to send PING requests to a few hosts on their local network or possibly the Internet, and to send e-mail or pager messages to the ...