Before a server can be monitored the Nagios NCPA Agent must be installed. This article will go over installing the agent on both Windows and Ubuntu Linux based machine. NCPA agents are available other flavors or Linux as well as MacOS at https://www.nagios.org/ncpa/#downloads Windows Servers Begin by logging into the server. Once logged in, download the […]
Read MoreHosts or Servers are added to Nagios with text based cfg files and for my setup, are stored in /opt/nagios/servers. Prior to adding a server, it is a good idea to have the Nagios NCPA Agent installed on each server that will be monitored. When editing a file with Nano, to save your changes to do the […]
Read MoreContacts are created in Nagios for email alerts. They can be setup for individual users or a distribution list. They can also be setup to alert at different times of the day and can send alerts based on severity of the issue. If you don’t already have a Nagios server setup, you can follow my […]
Read MoreI use Nagios a lot for work to monitor our Linux and Windows servers as well as Ubiquiti equipment. I put together a walkthrough of how I setup Nagios. This is mainly for my documentation, but if you find it useful as well or have any recommendations to make my steps better, please let me […]
Read MoreWe had about 40 locations (now up to 90) that we had Unifi setup for our security network utilizing Ubiquiti’s Cloud Key for each site. The guy before me setup this up and it was a nightmare to manage. We also had a high number Cloud Keys kept dying on us. My solution to this […]
Read MoreI’ve been using ZoneMinder for about 10 years at this point. Below I’ll outline my way (maybe easier than the official documentation) of installing ZoneMinder on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. I’ll be installing this a Lenovo M900 tiny pc and using 4 cheap PoE cameras off of Amazon LAMP Install and Setup Before we can install […]
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