Course Outline

Introduction to Nagios

  • Overview of Nagios and its components
  • Architecture and design
  • Key features and use cases

Installing Nagios

  • System requirements
  • Installing Nagios Core on Linux
  • Setting up the web interface
  • Installing Nagios plugins

Monitoring Configuration

  • Creating hosts and services
  • Using host and service groups
  • Monitoring local and remote resources
  • Check commands and plugin configuration

Alerting and Notifications

  • Setting up contact definitions
  • Creating notification templates
  • Escalation policies

Advanced Monitoring Topics

  • Monitoring routers and switches with SNMP
  • Using performance data with PNP4Nagios
  • NetFlow monitoring

Database Integration

  • Integrating Nagios with MySQL
  • Using NDOUtils for data storage and retrieval

Nagios Extensions and Tools

  • NagiosQL for configuration management
  • NagVis for graphical visualization
  • BPI (Business Process Intelligence) for business-level monitoring

Distributed Monitoring and Remote Execution

  • Concepts and architecture
  • NRDP and NRDS for distributed checks
  • Mod-Gearman and DNX for scaling Nagios

High Availability

  • Implementing redundancy for failover
  • Synchronizing configurations
  • Load balancing options

Troubleshooting and Optimization

  • Debugging plugins and services
  • Optimizing performance
  • Log analysis and maintenance

Final Project and Best Practices

  • Hands-on implementation scenario
  • Reviewing configuration architecture
  • Best practices in production environments

Requirements

  • Basic knowledge of Linux/Unix systems administration
  • Familiarity with networking concepts (e.g., TCP/IP, SNMP)
  • Understanding of system monitoring fundamentals is recommended

Audience

  • System administrators
  • Network engineers
  • IT operations staff responsible for monitoring infrastructure and services
 35 Hours

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