Network Monitoring - Topics in Nagios (Basic to Advanced)

Mike Groeneweg and Stephen Walsh, AARNet
Date: Tuesday 10 July 2012
Time: 9.00am - 5.00pm

Building on a fundamental understanding of network monitoring, we would like to demonstrate through a workshop format, Nagios monitoring - using a real server and some real switches and servers on site.
 
We will look at basics of nagios, setting it up for the first time.
 
Advanced topics:

• time of day configuration, notifications, escalations and templating
• Basics of SNMP will be covered
• polling vs traps
• passive result inputs
• building your own nagios plugins
• NRPE and remote probes will also be used/demonstrated

Knowledge of Unix, Perl, Network highly desirable.

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