Nagios best practices?

[Jim Avery]

On 13/08/07, Steve Huff <shuff at hmdc.harvard.edu> wrote:
> Hello folks!
>
> I'd like to roll out Nagios to replace our aging Mon installation;
> however, setting up Nagios has been more difficult than I had
> expected, which makes me wonder if I'm going about it the wrong way.
>
> Can you recommend a Nagios best practices document or howto?

The relevant page in the official Nagios documentation you need to
look for is "Time-Saving Tricks For Object Definitions".  I would give
you the url, but for some reason I can't get to that page just at the
moment.

An excellent introduction to Nagios which goes through how to
configure it is the book 'Nagios' by Wolfgang Barth published by
NoStarch Press.  You can buy it online in .pdf form, printed form or
both.  It's getting slightly dated now, but IMO it's an easier read
than some of the alternatives if you're just starting out.

Using hostgroups and templates judiciously you should be able to
achieve what you want pretty easily.  My recommendation would be to
start with a simple config and expand from there rather than trying to
do everything at once.

hth,

Jim

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