The Nagios web interface is an easy and powerful tool for getting important information from our monitoring software. It allows us to drill down from the top-level overview to the detailed status of any host or service. We can access logs and generate reports, and thanks to the fact that it is web-based, all of it is within reach from virtually any place in the world. All that is required is a web browser and network connection toward our Nagios system.
You learned the following items:
- Checking the overall status with Tactical Overview
- Managing hosts and services
- Scheduling downtimes and adding comments
- Viewing Nagios information and generating reports
In this chapter, we used the built-in, available, and out-of-the-box Nagios Web interface. The Nagios ecosystem is far richer than this, so the next chapter will introduce other interfaces of various types (web, command line, and mobile) that are available for us to use.