Linux Service Monitoring With Nagios

Capabilities

Nagios provides complete monitoring of Linux services. Nagios is capable of monitoring the state of any Linux service (Apache, MySQL, BIND, etc) and alerting you when the service is stopped or crashed.

Benefits

Implementing effective Linux service monitoring with Nagios offers the following benefits:

• Increased server, services, and application availability
• Fast detection of network outages and protocol failures
• Fast detection of failed services and batch jobs

Solutions

These Nagios solutions provide Linux service monitoring capabilities and benefits:

• Nagios XI
• Nagios Core

Resources

• Linux Monitoring Wizard
• Linux SNMP Monitoring Wizard
• NRPE Monitoring Wizard
• SSH Monitoring Wizard

Documentation

• Installing the XI Linux Agent
• Monitoring Linux Using SNMP
• Monitoring Hosts Using NRPE
• Monitoring Hosts Using SSH
• Installing The Nagios Ubuntu and Debian Linux Agent

Videos

• Using The Linux Server Wizard
• Installing The Linux Agent

See Also

• Linux Monitoring
• Linux Process Monitoring