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Holiday Giveaway: Win Learning Nagios 3.0 Book

by Ramesh Natarajan on December 15, 2008

Learning Nagios 3.0 BookIt’s Holiday Season and I have a gift for you.

As part of the first contest at The Geek Stuff, I will be giving away three copies of Learning Nagios 3.0 PDF version of the book written by Wojciech Kocjan. All you have to do is let us know your favorite Unix command with a sample usage.

For those who’ve been following this blog for a while already know that I love Nagios and I have written few article on Nagios earlier.

For beginners, Learning Nagios 3.0 book will give you an introduction to Nagios and a jumpstart on how to setup and configure Nagios 3.0. For advanced users, this book explains about the Nagios 3.0 new features and details of advanced Nagios configuration.
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How To Monitor Remote Windows Machine Using Nagios on Linux

by Ramesh Natarajan on July 9, 2008

Nagios
In the previous articles we discussed about Nagios 3.0 Jumpstart guide and How to monitor remote Linux host using Nagios 3.0. In this article, l’ll explain how to monitor remote windows machine and the various service running on the windows server using nagios monitoring server. Following three sections are covered in this article.

I. Overview
II. 4 steps to install nagios on remote windows host

  1. Install NSClient++ on the remote windows server
  2. Modify the NSClient++ Service
  3. Modify the NSC.ini
  4. Start the NSClient++ Service

III. 6 configuration steps on nagios monitoring server

  1. Verify check_nt command and windows-server template
  2. Uncomment windows.cfg in /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
  3. Modify /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/windows.cfg
  4. Define windows services that should be monitored.
  5. Enable Password Protection
  6. Verify Configuration and Restart Nagios.

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