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Nagios obtains its sensor and metric data from the Supermon open source monitoring application,
which is integrated with the Insight Control for Linux.

Figure 23

illustrates the interaction of these tools.

Figure 23 System monitoring tools integration

The mond and syslog daemons run on every managed system. The Supermon service manages
requests for mond daemons that run on a subset of systems. The Nagios master runs its
check_metrics

plug-in periodically, which causes Supermon data collection and storage into

the database. The syslog daemons on the managed systems report events to the syslog-ng
service. The managed systems are configured to forward their syslog events to the syslog-ng
service on the CMS.

20.2.1 Nagios documentation

For more information about Nagios, see the following sources:

Nagios documentation:

www.nagios.org

Nagios features:

Additional information on Nagios is commercially available. The following website lists
documents that describe Nagios and its use for system and network administration:

http://www.nagios.org/propaganda/books/

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