Red Branch

I thought I would jot down a few notes about today’s adventures with SNMP. Specifically using SNMP with Nagios mostly on Red Hat/CentOS. I have an appliance from a third-party from which I would like to monitor and graph performance. So view this as a beginner howto for future reference. There is good info here [...]

Nagios is is a useful tool for monitoring many servers and their services. At a glance (or via email) you can see which services/hosts are experiencing problems.Monitoring public services such as HTTP, FTP, LDAP, SSH are relatively easy but to go a little further and check disk or swap usage on a remote machine use [...]