Big project for monitoring network hosts and services. Originally, the bane of my existence as I struggled to make it genuinely useful for me and my situation at the Lab. However, after going through the book and setting up some custom tests, Nagios seems to be the perfect solution.

Since I’m back to using Nagios, I’m dropping my netmon project.

Resources

• Nagios home page
• NagiosExchange — a repository of user-submitted check scripts, configurations, and general information
• Nagios Book from No Starch Press, the book that finally changed my mind about this powerful software

Notes

To get the plugins to compile under Mac OS X, the definition of

uint32_t server_time, raw_server_time;

needs changed to

unsigned long server_time, raw_server_time;

in plugins/check_time.c (Thanks, MacPorts)