Definitive Nagios/Naemon Training Course Contents
Nagios architecture
Downloading Nagios, Installing Nagios, Nagios core, plugins, frontends, addons. Nagios XI. Nagios Fusion.
Hands on: Installing Nagios.
Getting started with Nagios
Nagios files, nagios.cfg, minimal.cfg. Starting and stopping Nagios.
Hands on: Controlling Nagios.
Using Nagios
Nagios web interface. Maps, Hosts, host groups, services, service groups, problems. Reports. Configuration.
Hands on: Using the web interface.
Monitoring Linux systems
SSH, NRPE.
Hands on: Monitoring Linux system health.
Monitoring Windows systems
Installing NSClient++, Configuring NSClient++, check_nt plugin, monitoring uptime, CPU, memory, disks, services, processes.
Hands on: Monitoring Windows system health.
Monitoring network devices
SNMP architecture, MIBs. Polling.
Hands on: Configuring Nagios for SNMP.
Agents
Configuring Cisco devices for SNMP support, communities, traps, syslog.
Hands on: Monitoring network devices.
Nagios alerts and notifications
SNMP traps. Email notifications, SMS alerts other messaging.
Mod_gearman
Mod_gearman is an easy way of distributing active Naemon checks across your network and increasing Naemon scalability.
Hands on: Nagios/Naemon integration with Mod_Gearman
Pnp4nagios
performance data collected by Nagios plugins
Hands on: Nagios/Naemon integration with Mod_Gearman
snmptt
A snmp trap translator SNMP evethandler to make Nagios aware these messages, converting MIB files and integrating MySQL database to store messages.
Hands on: Deploy separate SNMPTT to send the trap of remote hosts
