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Monitoring network computers with the Icinga Nagios fork
Server Observer
A server can struggle for many reasons: System resources like the CPU, RAM, or hard disk space could be overloaded, or network services might have crashed. Depending on the applications that run on a server, consequences can be dire – from irked users to massive financial implications.
Therefore, it is more important than ever in a highly networked world to be able to monitor the state of your server and take action immediately. Of course, you could check every server and service individually, but it is far more convenient to use a monitoring tool like Icinga.
Nagios Fork
Icinga [1] is a relatively young project that was forked from Nagios [2] because of disagreements regarding the pace and direction of development. Icinga delivers improved database connectors (for MySQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL), a more user-friendly web interface, and an API that lets administrators integrate numerous extensions without complicated modification of the Icinga core. The Icinga developers also seek to reflect community needs more closely and to integrate patches more quickly. The first stable version, 1.0, was released in December 2009, and the version counter has risen every couple of months ever since.
Icinga comprises three components: the core, the API, and the optional web interface. The core collects system health information generated by plugins and passes it via the IDOMOD interface to the Icinga Data Out Database (IDODB) or the IDO2DB service daemon. The PHP-based API accepts information from the IDODB and displays it in a web-based interface. Additionally, the API facilitates the development of add-ons and plugins.
Icinga Web is designed to be a state-of-the-art web interface that is easily customized for administrators to keep an eye on the state
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