An important feature of Nagios is the ability to create parent – child relationships. Parent – child relationships exist throughout the information technology world. Programmers create applications that produce child processes. Information technology systems have dependencies that can be classified as parent – child relationships. Let’s examine the importance of parent – child relationships within the Nagios system with a few examples.
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HOWTOs.
Jason Holtzapple wrote this howto for graphing Nagios services with pnp4nagios. Using pnp4nagios is an easy way to graph services inside Nagios. This guide can help you set up pnp4nagios or migrate an existing graphing tool. Follow this link to view the howto.
http://tinyurl.com/mcskvz
Suse Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) is an enterprise grade server operating system. The open source equivalent is Opensuse. Novell has moved SLES further into the business server OS class after their acquisition of the operating system. Novell also formed a strategic partnership with Microsoft a couple of years ago.
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Matt Stansberry, Executive Editor of SearchDataCenter.com, writes about how the down economy is moving IT managers to do more with less. Self-healing automation systems can be written using tools like Nagios to make infrastructure management more cost-effective in these changing times.
Source: SearchDataCenter, July 29th, 2009.
In this installment of the “Meet The Community” series I interview
