Description
Nagios is an Open Source solution for monitoring your servers, networks and applications. This course will teach you good practices for operating it, including how to install it, configure it and adapt it to your environment.
Who is this training for ?
For whom ?Systems and network technicians and administrators. Anyone wishing to set up a supervision system.
Prerequisites
Training objectives
Training program
- Introduction
- The challenges of an administration solution.
- Market solutions.
- The place of Nagios.
- Implement a Nagios solution
- Identification of needs.
- Monitoring, QoS metrics and performance management functions.
- Nagios fundamentals: hosts, services, commands, hostgroups .
- What can be administered with Nagios? The place of SNMP in Nagios administration.
- Practical work Case study and demonstration of Nagios, Nagvis , NagiosBPI, NagiosXI, Centreon.
- Architecture de Nagios
- Description of the architecture.
- Plug-ins and service checks.
- Authentication of administrators and operators for access to features.
- External modules: metrology, grapher.
- Install and configure Nagios
- Installation from a tarball and recompilation of Nagios.
- Installation of the standard set of plug-ins with recompilation.
- Adding a plug-in not delivered in the standard game.
- How to develop a plug-in? How to add complementary bricks? SNMP and in particular traps with the Nagios solution.
- Setting up a Grapher based on rrdtools.
- How to use SNMP for monitoring? Practical work Install Nagios and its plug-ins.
- Manage Linux servers with NRPE and ssh, and Windows servers with NSClient++ and WMI clients.
- Adapt Nagios to your environment
- Understand the graphical interface.
- The possibilities of adapting to the needs of the administration solution to be implemented.
- Customize the graphical interface.
- Define usage profiles for users with their rights.
- Visibility of the managed system.
- Practical work Setting up a grapher.
- Creation of profiles according to the zones to be administered.
- Setting up nagiosmobile, vshell.
- Complementary solutions
- Positioning of various solutions: Centreon, Nagios XI, icinga.
- The essential applications.
- Nagvis, a graphical interface based on Ajax, management of network flows with weathermap.
- Nagios BPI, modify your interface into a view adapted to your business constraints.
- Practical work Nagios XI demonstration.
- Installation, use from Centreon, Nagvis and NagiosBPI.
