Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; Acknowledgments; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Opsview Core Basics; Important concepts; Installing and configuring Opsview Core; Package-based installations; Prerequisites; Installing Opsview; Virtual appliance; On demand; Using the Opsview help system and contextual menus; Contextual menu; Opsview help system; Creating user accounts; Adding and assigning roles; Adding contacts; LDAP and Active Directory integration; Reloading; Summary; Chapter 2: Basic Configuration
Configuring hosts, host groups, and host group hierarchyHost groups; Host group hierarchy; Hosts; Host templates; Configuring service checks and service groups; Creating service checks; Active Plugin; SNMP polling; Passive; Using dependencies; Adding plugins to the system; Handling performance data; Creating and installing Opspacks; Summary; Chapter 3: Advanced Configuration; Using exceptions; Creating and using keywords; Using keyword views; Creating and using host-attributes; Using attributes to multiply service checks; Configuring notifications; Using shared notification profiles
Testing from the WebUIUsing the advanced host configuration; Monitoring multi-homed hosts; Using parenting for network outage detection; Automation with the REST API; Configuration; Informational objects; 'Wrapping up the REST API'?; Summary; Chapter 4: Agents, Clouds, and Modules; Using agents; Adding plugins to the Linux agent; Adding plugins to the Windows agent; Agentless monitoring; SSH; SNMP and host interfaces; WMI; Virtualization and Cloud monitoring; Virtualization; Setting up vSphere monitoring; Cloud monitoring; Amazon AWS; Slicehost; Clouds on the horizon; Using core modules
NagVisMRTG; NMIS; Summary; Chapter 5: Opsview Mobile; Configuring Opsview for Opsview Mobile; Opsview Mobile on Android; Opsview Mobile on iOS; Using push notifications; Summary; Chapter 6: The Three Ts; Using the tools from the utils directory; clone_host; copy_host_attributes; export_full_config; export_host_template; get_actual_command; list_unknown_devices; rename_host; test_notifications; nlcat; Testing plugins from the command line; Checking the various log files and debugging; Opsview log files; Opsviewd.log; Opsview-web.log; Debugging; Common agent issues
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plugin may be missing; NRPE: Return code of 255 is out of bounds; Summary; Chapter 7: Designing a Monitoring Environment; Scaling; Deployments; Monitoring concepts; How to measure availability and performance; Dependencies; Thresholds; Keywords; Using notifications; Multi-homed environments; Network outages; Real path monitoring; Running your environment; Summary; Chapter 8: Upgrading to Opsview Pro or Opsview Enterprise; Why upgrade?
