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Using Nagios in a efficient way (in a generic install):

Nagios is a highly configurable monitoring platform. Basically it gives you the possibility to take any output and can monitor it!

It has a great community around it; it’s very well documented and has many, many plug-ins.

There is a free and a paid version available:

  • The Core version gives you the possibility to make the installation in any way you want, but requires some knowledge on how you can get the things done.
  • The paid version (current named Nagios XI) try’s to include a unified interface where the user can administrate the whole Nagios server in one interface.

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