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 ...

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 ...

I'm using Nagios to monitor some Windows servers, using the NSClient, standard config nothing special. It works great on a number of systems, but on a server I just setup today Nagios constantly goes ...