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		<title>Translate OIDs for Nagios</title>
		<link>http://beginlinux.com/blog/2010/06/translate-oids-for-nagios/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 05:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nagios]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nagios with SNMP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Object Identifiers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[OIDs or Object Identifiers, are used to determine items that you will want to monitor with SNMP.  These are tough to understand but there are some excellent online tools for helping you.  A great tool for translating OIDs is an online resource at:       http://jaguar.ir.miami.edu/~marcus/snmptrans.html You can find similar posts to this in our new Nagios [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ubuntu 10.04: Check IMAP with Nagios</title>
		<link>http://beginlinux.com/blog/2010/05/ubuntu-10-04-check-imap-with-nagios/</link>
		<comments>http://beginlinux.com/blog/2010/05/ubuntu-10-04-check-imap-with-nagios/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 00:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nagios]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ubuntu 10.04 Server]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ubuntu IMAP]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Check IMAP and IMAPS You will probably want to check to see if your IMAP server is working properly.  There are several plugins that are options.  These two options presented next are straightforward and easy to use.  One plugin for IMAP and one plugin for IMAPS.  Nagios provides an excellent way to keep in touch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Monitor a Device with Nagios</title>
		<link>http://beginlinux.com/blog/2010/05/how-to-monitor-a-device-with-nagios/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 04:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nagios]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nagios device monitoring]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://beginlinux.com/blog/?p=1367</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Once you have decided you want to monitor a device with Nagios, like a server, router, switch, printer, etc, then you will need to take three steps for each device.  This article assumes you have a working Nagios server. The process illustrated here checking a router is the same process you will use to check [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scaling NSClient++ with Nagios</title>
		<link>http://beginlinux.com/blog/2010/04/scaling-nsclient-with-nagios/</link>
		<comments>http://beginlinux.com/blog/2010/04/scaling-nsclient-with-nagios/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 08:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nagios]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nagios Server]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSClient++]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://beginlinux.com/blog/?p=1361</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When you are using Nagios to check a Windows server and you have a lot of different checks you are performing, you can leverage your checks with one check that does it all.  Multiple checks with one connection will allow you to save bandwidth and likely system resources on the Windows box.  NSClient++ has a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NagiosGrapher: HTTP Response Time</title>
		<link>http://beginlinux.com/blog/2010/04/nagiosgrapher-http-response-time/</link>
		<comments>http://beginlinux.com/blog/2010/04/nagiosgrapher-http-response-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nagios]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nagios HTTP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NagiosGrapher]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://beginlinux.com/blog/?p=1328</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Graph Set Up in NagiosGrapher The directory /etc/nagios/ngraph.d contains the graph files that will build your graphs.  By default this directory contains subdirectories, templates and in side templates; standard and extra.  The first thing you should do is review the template files in /etc/nagios/ngrpah.d/templates/standard.   This assumes you have  NagiosGrapher already set up.   You [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NagiosGrapher</title>
		<link>http://beginlinux.com/blog/2010/04/nagiosgrapher/</link>
		<comments>http://beginlinux.com/blog/2010/04/nagiosgrapher/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:13:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nagios]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nagios graphs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NagiosGrapher]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://beginlinux.com/blog/?p=1301</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[NagiosGrapher is an interesting tool used to process data and represent it in a graph form.  The great thing about this program is that you can just about graph anything with it.    NagiosGrapher saves data with RRDtool  which will then generate the graph.  The serviceextinfo will also generate information.  This tutorial is the first in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Regional Nagios Server Setup</title>
		<link>http://beginlinux.com/blog/2010/03/regional-nagios-server/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nagios]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[passive checks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[regional monitoring]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://beginlinux.com/blog/?p=1251</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The major goal of the  regional server is to distribute the results of all service checks to the central server.  The regional Nagios machines must use OCSP and OCHP in order to send the proper updates to the central server. Part One: Passive Checks Course Part Two: Central Server Part Three: Regional Server Join our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nagios: Central Monitoring</title>
		<link>http://beginlinux.com/blog/2010/03/nagios-central-monitoring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nagios]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[distributed nagios]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[passive checks]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://beginlinux.com/blog/?p=1230</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Distributed Monitoring This is part two of a three part series on distributed monitoring. You can use passive service and host checks to allow non-central Nagios servers to collect data from a network of machines and then transfer that information to a central Nagios server.  The transfer of information is done using NSCA so that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nagios Training: Create Custom Passive Checks</title>
		<link>http://beginlinux.com/blog/2009/09/nagios-training-create-custom-passive-checks/</link>
		<comments>http://beginlinux.com/blog/2009/09/nagios-training-create-custom-passive-checks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nagios]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nagios Server]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nagios Traiining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSCA]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://beginlinux.com/blog/?p=820</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[4nqa8nwtcm Creating Custom Scripts Both the good and the bad of passive checks is that you will need to construct  your own scripts in order to assess the output and determine the host and service status.  Here is a simple example of what you will need to do. Lesson 7 &#124; Quiz #!/bin/bash # Custom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nagios Training: Passive Checks for Users</title>
		<link>http://beginlinux.com/blog/2009/09/nagios-training-passive-checks-for-users/</link>
		<comments>http://beginlinux.com/blog/2009/09/nagios-training-passive-checks-for-users/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nagios]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nagios Server]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nagios training]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSCA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[passive checks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Passive Service Check of Users Here is a test script on the client.  Note it is using the check_users plugin from Nagios so you will have to be sure they are installed. Lesson 6 &#124; Lesson 8 #!/bin/bash # Passive User Check CFG=&#8221;/etc/nagios/send_nsca.cfg&#8221; USERS=`/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_users -w 3 -c 5` CMD=&#8221;nagpass;Users;0;$USERS&#8221; /bin/echo $CMD &#124; /usr/sbin/send_nsca -H 192.168.5.50 [...]]]></description>
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