August 3, 2012

MRTG Installation

Server Management,

MRTG INSTALLATION:   TASK 1: SNMP ConfigurationWhat is SNMP?Most routers and firewalls keep their operational statistics in Management Information Blocks (MIBs). Each statistic has an Object Identifier (OID) and can be remotely retrieved from the MIB via the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). However, as a security measure, you need to know the SNMP password…

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March 16, 2010

Nagios Installation and Configuration

Server Management,

Nagios Installation in Ubuntu Required Packages Install the following packages on  Ubuntu before continuing. Apache 2 PHP GCC compiler and development libraries GD development libraries If not installed, using apt-get the above packages can be installed as follows sudo apt-get install apache2 sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5 sudo apt-get install build-essential sudo apt-get install libgd2-xpm-dev Create…

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March 16, 2010

Nagios – An Introduction

Server Management,

What is Nagios? Nagios is a framework for setting up monitoring of hosts, services, and networks . What are the components of Nagios? nagios the main server software and...

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