The fact that a host can be reached, in itself, has little meaning if no service is running on it on which somebody or something relies. Accordingly, everything in Nagios revolves around service ...

Remotely monitor servers with the Nagios check_by_ssh plugin Your email has been sent If you are using Nagios to monitor remote servers, you have more than one method ...

A while back, I wrote an article for Linux Journal's web edition entitled “Howto be a good (and lazy) System Administrator.” A couple astute readers, after reading the article, asked if I was familiar ...