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20.2.2 Launching Nagios

To launch Nagios, you must have a valid certificate for the Apache service. To configure an Apache
certificate, see

Section 19.2 (page 154)

.

Select the following menu item from the Insight Control user interface to launch Nagios:

Tools

→Integrated Consoles→Nagios

The Nagios main window shown in

Figure 24

appears when you launch Nagios.

Figure 24 Nagios main window

From the Nagios main window, you can choose any of the menu options on the left navigation
bar.

The Nagios menu options offer various views of the managed systems. After you choose an option,
Nagios prompts for a login name and a password. This login and password were established
when you installed and configured Insight Control for Linux.

Insight Control for Linux provides plug-ins that monitor these views and other system statistics. The
full list of view and menu options includes the following:

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