Nagios configuraion best practice

[Kenneth Holter]

Thanks for the reply. I'll read the documents you listed.

Meanwhile, I have a design question: What's the best way to set up a service
check to be executed on a selected few (or maybe all for that matter) nodes?
Say I need to monitor a particular process (lets call this service A) on a
number of systems, how would I implement this? I guess one way would be to
link service A to a hostgroup, say hostgroup A, and add the selected systems
to that hostgroup. This, however, will somewhat clutter up the web display,
so I'm looking for alternative approaches.

Any suggestions?




On 9/15/08, dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum <dit.dash at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Assuming you're already familiar with nagios, I'd look at the nagios
> documentation
> in the following order:
>
> Under "Configuring nagios", look at "Object definitions" and make sure
>   you understand all parameters and what would make sense in your
> environment
> Under "Advanced Topics", look at "Timesaving tips for object definitions"
> Under "Advanced Topics", look at "host and service dependancies"
>
> Under "Advanced Topics", look at both "Distributed Monitoring" and
> "Redundant and
>   Failover Monitoring".
> Finally, under Security and Performance Tuning, look at Large
> Installation Tweaks
>
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Kenneth Holter <kenneho.ndu at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> >
> > I'm new to Nagios, and are planning on using Nagios for monitoring our
> > network of Linux servers.
> >
> > Are there any best practice documents on how to manage the different
> > definitions such as hostgroups, services, servicegroups, and so forth in
> an
> > enterprise environment?
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Kenneth Holter
> >
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