From b9454295ee7a13580e77ff984ed87e7db6d3683e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: varac Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 11:32:15 +0200 Subject: updated the Nagios section --- pages/docs/platform/troubleshooting/tests.md | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'pages/docs/platform') diff --git a/pages/docs/platform/troubleshooting/tests.md b/pages/docs/platform/troubleshooting/tests.md index 8406404..5500aa9 100644 --- a/pages/docs/platform/troubleshooting/tests.md +++ b/pages/docs/platform/troubleshooting/tests.md @@ -22,7 +22,14 @@ After deploying, this node will regularly poll every node to ask for the status We use [Nagios](http://www.nagios.org/) together with [Check MK agent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Check_MK) for running checks on remote hosts. -You can log into the monitoring web interface via [https://MONITORNODE/nagios3/](https://MONITORNODE/nagios3/). The username is `nagiosadmin` and the password is found in the secrets.json file in your provider directory. +One nagios installation will monitor all nodes in all your environments. You can log into the monitoring web interface via [https://DOMAIN/nagios3/](https://DOMAIN/nagios3/). The username is `nagiosadmin` and the password is found in the secrets.json file in your provider directory. +Nagios will send out mails to the `contacts` address provided in `provider.json`. + + +## Nagios Frontents + +There are other ways to check and get notified by Nagios besides regularly checking the Nagios webinterface or reading email notifications. Check out the [Frontends (GUIs and CLIs)](http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Addons/Frontends-%28GUIs-and-CLIs%29) on the Nagios project website. +A recommended status tray application is [Nagstamon](https://nagstamon.ifw-dresden.de/), which is available for Linux, MacOS X and Windows. It can not only notify you of hosts/services failures, you can also acknoledge or recheck these with it. ### Log Monitoring -- cgit v1.2.3