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This guide will help you setup Nagios user to have limited access to host and service checks. It is helpful when you want to allow your customers or clients to view and receive alerts on their servers and services, like for dedicated servers.
Procedure:
Contacts: Create new contact definitions for your client.
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This is a slight departure from our regular programming. Instead of just concentrating on the sys admin side of things I want to show how to add a Nagios check to an existing application. In this case we have a Java application for which we want to monitor whether it is running or not. Later [...]

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If you can’t do it with a shell script it usually ain’t worth doin’, right? Of course the number and quality of monitoring tools available to sys admins has gone up dramatically. Thanks to Nagios and other great tools it’s pretty easy to keep track of what’s going on and where and get notified pretty [...]

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