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Tech Tip: “Smarter” notifications with Nagios BPI

So for those of you out there who use Nagios, you’ve probably gotten that annoying text at 2am in the morning notifying you that “Server X is down!”  This is only annoying because you have redundant solutions in place for … Read More

Tech Tip: Monitoring Environmental Conditions With Nagios XI And A Websensor EM08

This document describes how to monitor environmental conditions (temperature, relative humidity, and light level) with Nagios XI and a Websensor EM08 from eSensors. Using Nagios XI to monitor a Websensor EM08 will notify you of environmental element changes which may … Read More

Tech Tip: Monitoring Critical Debian and Ubuntu Updates With Nagios

This month Tony Yarusso, a member of the Nagios Technical Team, shares his tips on how to monitor critical updates for Debian and Ubuntu with Nagios. With any operating system, staying up to date with patches and updates is a … Read More

Tech Tip: Monitoring Oracle Database Servers

This month Anders provides insight on monitoring Oracle databases using Nagios. Since Oracle’s database server is designed to meet a very broad range of usage scenarios, it can be quite time-consuming to maintain Oracle installations. The database administrator has to … Read More

Tech Tip: Monitoring VMware ESX 3.x, ESXi, vSphere 4 and vCenter Server

This month Anders provides insight on monitoring VMware using Nagios.     Virtualization using products from VMware has become very popular in all types of organizations during the last two years. Systems are being virtualized at a high pace and … Read More

Tech Tip: Monitoring network equipment hardware

This month Anders provides insight on monitoring network equipment hardware like switches and routers via SNMP. In many organisations the availability of IT-services depend on network eqipment that happens to work well, but isn’t proactively monitored. The switches and routers … Read More