{"id":66,"date":"2018-01-23T22:36:11","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T22:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/107.181.191.134\/?p=66"},"modified":"2018-01-23T22:36:11","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T22:36:11","slug":"inexpensively-monitoring-a-network-with-more-than-100-workstations-and-many-servers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/certcent.io\/index.php\/2018\/01\/23\/inexpensively-monitoring-a-network-with-more-than-100-workstations-and-many-servers\/","title":{"rendered":"Inexpensively monitoring a network with more than 100 workstations and many servers."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\ndocument.addEventListener(\"click\", function() {\n   document.getElementById(\"Nagios\").innerHTML = \"Data\";\n});\ndocument.addEventListener(\"dblclick\", function(){\n    document.getElementById(\"Nagios\").innerHTML = \"\";\n});\n<\/script><br \/>\nThis post is not a technical post with details on installing or troubleshooting Nagios, you can use Google for doing that much.  This post is a short synopsis of what you need to get started with Nagios.<br \/>\nOur budget for IT doesn&#8217;t include overhead for purchasing fancy network monitoring tools like Microsoft&#8217;s System Center. This is where your affable Nagios comes in to save the day. Nagios is a free open source tool, with many options to purchase already baked Nagios packages at a cost. Nagios will abate the amount of time you spend responding to tech calls or just impressing your<br \/>\nboss with your protectiveness when a network printer goes offline.<br \/>\nSetting up a <b> Nagios Server <\/b> is simple, many ways, but here is my setup:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Download latest release of Fedora<\/li>\n<li>Install Fedora on a Hyper-V machine off your server, it&#8217;s okay to use the network switch that is exposed on your network<\/li>\n<li>Download the latest Nagios core installation (will usually be a tar.gz file).<\/li>\n<li>Setup with Apache, configure .htaccess, and login through Web GUI<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Setting up the <b> Nagios Clients <\/b> is a little more work, but will pay off when the data starts to populate<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Download NSClient++<\/li>\n<li>Setup NSClient++ MSI to install automatically through Group Policy<\/li>\n<li>Configure nsclient.ini and distribute to each client<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are the most common <b> services <\/b> that we monitor:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Disk Usage<\/li>\n<li>Memory Usage<\/li>\n<li>Windows Server Last Backup Status<\/li>\n<li>Windows Update<\/li>\n<li>Processor Usage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is my short anecdote of using Nagios. It&#8217;s been rock solid for 17-years now. Good to learn a little Linux in the meantime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is not a technical post with details on installing or troubleshooting Nagios, you can use Google for doing that much. This post is a short synopsis of what you need to get started with Nagios. Our budget for IT doesn&#8217;t include overhead for purchasing fancy network monitoring tools like Microsoft&#8217;s System Center. This&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/certcent.io\/index.php\/2018\/01\/23\/inexpensively-monitoring-a-network-with-more-than-100-workstations-and-many-servers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Inexpensively monitoring a network with more than 100 workstations and many servers.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/certcent.io\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/certcent.io\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/certcent.io\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/certcent.io\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/certcent.io\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/certcent.io\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/certcent.io\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/certcent.io\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/certcent.io\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}