Back in February I delivered a preview of a new tool that I had been working on called the “Nagios Discovery Tool for Windows” – or the NDT for short. Since then I have been trying to get a manual for the tool together, but as is the way of my life it has been […]
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Nagios Discovery Tool (NDT) – Version 1.01
Information The Nagios Discovery tool is designed to make the process of discovering devices on your network and then configuring them for active monitoring with Nagios Core simpler. The Tool provides a GUI interface to scan for hosts and configure the relevant monitoring facets (services) that are associated with them. The tool comes supplied with […]
Configuring e-Mail Notifications in Nagios Core…
Linked to my multi part series on using Nagios Core with Exchange server, I would like to explain how you can configure mail notifications to recipients when status changes occur within the Nagios monitoring environment. If you are just joining us here, I recommend that you have a look at the series in its entirety […]
Video Preview of the Nagios Discovery Tool…
Recently I have been doing quite a bit of work with Nagios Core, which if you have not seen the article series you are most welcome to have a look at them below: In Part 1 I covered how you can install Nagios Core 3.3.1 onto an existing Ubuntu 11.10 server within your environment In […]
Nagios Monitoring Script-Get Local Databases
Script Description Powershell based NSClient++ monitoring script for use with Nagios Core. This script performs the following functions: Retrieves the Databases that are running on the monitored server Checks to see if they are mounted If no databases are resident on the server (in DAG configurations) the script returns the following information string to the […]
Nagios Monitoring Script-Monitor DAG Replication Status
Script Description Powershell based NSClient++ monitoring script for use with Nagios Core. This script is designed to Monitor the Replication Status of each database within a DAG Configuration. The script can return one of 2 error codes which are as follow: 0: OK 2: CRITICAL Download [ GetDAGReplicationStatus.ps1 – 1 KB ] Usage Please refer […]
Nagios Monitoring Script-Get DAG Information
Script Description Powershell based NSClient++ monitoring script for use with Nagios Core. This script is designed to return the name of the DAG which the host server is a member of. The script only returns the following status code: 0: OK However the return description into the Nagios Interface will either be: Name of the […]
Nagios Monitoring Script-Exchange 2010 Content Index Monitoring
Script Description Powershell based NSClient++ monitoring script for use with Nagios Core. This script is designed to monitor the status of the Content Index for each mailbox DAG database within your environment – the script has two exit statuses: 0: OK 2: Critical Critical is flagged when one or more Content Indexes are in a […]
Nagios Monitoring Script–Exchange 2010 Backup Monitoring
Script Description Powershell based NSClient++ monitoring script for use with Nagios Core. This script is designed to monitor the “LastFullBackup” attribute of the host Mailbox Server – the script has two exit statuses: 0: OK 2: CRITICAL Critical (2) is flagged when one or more databases hosted on the monitored server has a “lastFullBackup” of […]
Installing Nagios on Ubuntu Server 11.10 then Monitoring Windows and Exchange Servers–Part 4–Custom Exchange Monitoring Scripts…
Ok, I have to admit that this series has been a lot of fun (well for me anyway ~ I have had a blast) – but this part is perhaps by far and away the most fun that I have personally had – as it means that I have needed to develop some sample Powershell […]