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Spotlight: Nagios XI network monitoring tool

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    The Nagios Welcome page

    This screen is the welcome screen you will see upon logging in. As you can see, there are plenty of features ready to serve you.

    For a full review of Nagios, check out the TechRepublic Product Spotlight Blog.

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  • Service commands

    From this window you can enable and disable various features for a particular host \u2013 no editing of configuration files needed.

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  • Service status

    From a single screen you can see the service status of all of your hosts.

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  • Host groups

    You can combine hosts into groups which can make for easy at-a-glance monitoring. Here you can see “All Servers”, “Debian GNU/Linux Servers”, “HTTP Servers”, “Pingable Servers”, and “SSH Servers”.

    For a full review of Nagios, check out the TechRepublic Product Spotlight Blog.

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  • Mouse over

    By mousing over a host on the status map, you can get a quick glimpse of plenty of useful information.

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  • Service problems

    Click on the Service Problems link and you will quickly get a glimpse of all issues on your network.

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