Monitoring Network and Service Availability with Open-Source Software

作者：Silver T Michael^*

来源：Information Technology and Libraries, 2010, 29(1): 8-22.

Silver describes the implementation Of a monitoring system using an open-source software package to improve the availability of services and reduce the response time when troubles occur. He provides a brief overview of the literature available on monitoring library systems, and then describes the implementation of Nagios, an open-source network monitoring system, to monitor a regional library system's servers and wide area network. Particular attention is paid to using the plug-in architecture to monitor library services effectively. The author includes example displays and configuration files.

• 出版日期2010-3