NAME
nagios − host/service/network monitoring program
SYNOPSIS
nagios [-h | -v] <main config file>
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the nagios, command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.
nagios Nagios is a host/service/network monitoring program. It has the following features:
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Monitoring of network services (via TCP port, SMTP, POP3, HTTP, NNTP, PING, etc.) | ||
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Plugin interface to allow for user-developed service checks | ||
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Contact notifications when problems occur and get resolved (via email, pager, or user-defined method) | ||
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Ability to define event handlers to be run during service or host events (for proactive problem resolution) | ||
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Web output (current status, notifications, problem history, log file, etc.) |
Nagios was written in C and is designed to be easy to understand and modify to fit your own needs.
On Debian systems it should be automatically started at boot time, and can be controlled manually by the /etc/init.d/nagios script.
To view the web front-end, point your browser at http://localhost/nagios/
OPTIONS
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−d |
Starts Nagios in daemon mode (instead of as a foreground process) | ||
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−s |
Starts Nagios, prints out service check scheduling information and immediately shuts down before starting to monitor anything. Note: Do NOT use this option while Nagios is running! | ||
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−v |
Verify information in the configuration files. Nagios will *not* start monitoring any hosts when this option is supplied. | ||
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In order to start monitoring, you must supply the main configuration file as the only command line option. |
FILES
/etc/nagios/nagios.cfg
− main configuration file
/etc/nagios/hosts.cfg − monitoring configuration
file
BUGS
Nagios is still an immature program, so there are bound to be a lot of bugs in it. The current list of known issues and bugs can be found at http://www.nagios.org/bugs.php
SEE ALSO
The online documentation at http://www.nagios.org/ and also the documentation installed with the system, which on Debian systems is installed in /usr/share/nagios/docs.
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Ben Bell <bjb [AT] debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).