7.6 Monitoring Service Health with Nagios

The Nagios website allows you to monitor the basic services and the services that you configure Nagios to monitor.

You must set up the credentials for the nagiosadmin user before you can view the Nagios health website. For more information, see Section 7.5.1, Configuring Nagios Authenticated Users and Contacts.

You can also configure other Nagios users. For more information, see Section 7.8, Managing Nagios Users.

To monitor service health with Nagios:

  1. Log in to OES Remote Manager as the Linux root user or as a LUM-enabled administrator user.

  2. Access the Nagios Service Detail page, using any of the following methods in OES Remote Manager:

    • Click the Overall server health status indicator icon Server's health status is good.

    • Click the Health Monitor icon Health Monitor link in the header frame in the header frame.

    • Select Diagnose > Server Health Services.

  3. On the Nagios Service Detail page, click the Nagios Service Details link to view the Nagios website.

  4. When you are prompted, log in to Nagios using the Nagios credentials for the nagiosadmin user or log in another Nagios user that you have configured as a Nagios contact.

    You remain logged in to the Nagios website until you close the web browser.

    For information about setting up Nagios users, see Section 7.8, Managing Nagios Users.

  5. When you are done, close the web browser to log out of the Nagios website.