Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.68 02/23/09 SMI This information is Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems 1. Introduction 1.1. Project/Component Working Name: Nagios 1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier: Author: Deepti Vaidya 1.3 Date of This Document: 05 November, 2009 4. Technical Description Summary ======= Nagios is a program that will monitor hosts and services on your network. It has the ability to email or page you when a problem arises and when a problem is resolved. Nagios is written in C and is designed to run under Linux (and some other *NIX variants) as a background process, intermittently running checks on various services that you specify.
The actual service checks are performed by separate "plugin" programs which return the status of the checks to Nagios. The plugins are available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/nagiosplug This package provide core programs for nagios. This package is covered by Sun OSR # 10725 and ECCN EAR99. Package will be installed as SUNWnagiosr and SUNWnagiosu. The project is seeking a Minor release of Solaris. Dependencies ============ NONE Interfaces ========== nagios user is created. Uncommitted. nagios group is created. Uncommitted. nagcmd group id created. Uncommitted. SUNWnagiosr and SUNWnagiosu packages are Uncommitted. Exported Interfaces ------------------- /var/svc/manifest/application/nagios.xml -- SMF XML File -- Project Private. /usr/bin/nagios -- Executable file -- Uncommitted. /usr/bin/nagiostats -- Executable file -- Uncommitted. /etc/apache2/2.2/nagios.conf -- Uncommitted. /usr/apache2/2.2/bin/<cgi-scripts> -- Uncommitted. Imported Interfaces ------------------- SUNWapache2 Not An Interface -------------------- /usr/etc -- cfg files are copied here /usr/etc/objects -- cfg files are copied here /usr/lib -- When the nagios-plugin is installed, plugins are copied here /usr/share -- HTML files for web-UI /usr/share/contexthelp -- HTML files for web-UI /usr/share/docs -- Nagios Documentation files /usr/share/docs/images -- Nagios Documentation images /usr/share/images -- Nagios Web-UI realated images /usr/share/images/logos -- Nagios Web-UI realaged logos /usr/share/stylesheets -- css files for UI /usr/var -- Nagios generats files here /usr/var/archives -- Nagios log file gets created here /usr/var/rw -- fifo File gets generated here by nagios /usr/var/spool/checkresults Reference Documents =================== [1] http://nagios.org/documentation 6. Resources and Schedule 6.4. Steering Committee requested information 6.4.1. Consolidation C-team Name: SFW 6.5. ARC review type: FastTrack 6.6. ARC Exposure: open