After setting up Nagios I had a network monitoring system, that could tell me when a host was down. While this is nice, it is not actually what I want to know. The goal of network monitoring is to determine, if all your services are running properly. Continue reading Service Monitoring with Nagios →

My Home IT has grown quite a bit over the last years. I am now at a point where a problem can have causes in a bunch of different machines.
This means, that i actually can spend quite some time to identify the service that has the problem. For example if my SQL Server goes down a lot of other services will not work anymore, but i might only see that my Mediacentre stopped working or that i can’t log into my E-Mail account anymore. Continue reading Starting with Nagios →