OSS711 - Monitoring an information system with Nagios

OSS711 - Monitoring an information system with Nagios

Monitoring is an essential part of an information system. Savoir-faire Linux offers training tailored to the systems administrator, providing the foundation needed to effectively install and configure Nagios in a production environment, taking into account current realities. Nagios is the standard monitoring tool in the world of free software. It is modular, has a strong community and many plugins are available. This course aims to have participants discover the features of Nagios. Participants will also install, configure and administer the product and develop knowledge of new plugins.

Syllabus

  • Introduction
    1. The objectives of monitoring, the available techniques
  • Services & ressources
    1. Definition of resources to monitor
  • The features
    1. Monitoring, operation
    2. Monitoring of network services
    3. Resource monitoring (CPU load, disk space)
    4. Sending alarm determined to contacts
    5. Architecture
    6. Principle of operation
  • Installation
    1. Requirements. Reference site
    2. Basic Configuration
  • Configuration
    1. Study of the standard configuration file nagios.cfg
    2. Description of servers to monitor, creating groups of servers
    3. Description of contacts (for the receipt of alarm messages), and creation of contact groups
    4. Defining services and service groups
    5. Setting up the Web administration interface
  • The plugins
    1. Principle of operation
    2. Customizing Nagios by development of new plugins
  • The parallel controls
    1. Queue Nagios, methods of scheduling
  • Concept of hierarchy
    1. Guests parents, addiction services, hosts and groups
  • The SNMP protocol
    1. Description of how SNMP works
    2. Configure SNMP on a server to monitor
  • Student's choice
    1. Centreon: PHP Interface for Nagios
    2. High availability of a Nagios server
    3. Supervision distributed with Nagios
    4. FAN : Solution supervisory ready to install

Audience

System administrators, network administrators and anyone wishing to establish a monitoring system.

Prerequisites

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Class training

  • Duration : 3 day(s)
  • Price : 1195 $CAD
  • Register : Calendar