Nagios System and Network Monitoring and Management

Nagios provides a menu that can be modified to fit individual needs. In order to facilitate changes in the menu, you will need to modify the code which is in the PHP pages. This means that the menu may reflect the style and changes you want but it also means that you will need to copy any changes to prepare for updates which may revert back to the standard installation.

As security becomes more of an issue for all businesses, Nagios can be used to cover some of those 

security details. In this article Nagios is used to located network cards that may be in the process 

of sniffing network traffic.

 

Email management and troubleshooting can be a challenge as there are so many options and configuration choices that can get twisted.

NRDS, Nagios Remote Data Sender, is a component of Nagios XI that provides a passive method of communication. The unique aspect of NRDS is that on the Nagios server the administrator can design and build the configuration for multiple operating systems and then deploy those configurations with the plugins to the client.

Nagios 2012 provides a lot of significant changes to the interface. One of those large changes is to the Business Process Intelligence which allows you to set up checks based on groups of services and hosts that support one business application.