Nagios: Which services should I monitor on different roles of servers?
- by Itai Ganot
I've started working in a new workplace and my first task is to build a Nagios server and configure it to monitor the servers in the network.
Since I'm starting from scratch I wanted to hear from you, experienced users, which checks should I configure for each role?
For example, there are some basic checks which I run on each Linux machine I monitor:
SSH, Ping, Load, Current Users, Swap Usage, etc...
Now my question is, which specific checks should I run for a DataBase server, for a Networking Switch, for Httpd servers? (I currently monitor how many httpd processes are running)
Thanks in advance