Saturday, December 28, 2013

Installing MK Livestatus and Adding to Nagios 3 in Ubuntu

Livestatus is a new approach for accessing Nagios data. It has a lot of advantages over the classical NDO approach. Livestatus make use of Nagios Event Broker API. It loads a binary module into Nagios Process. Livestatus creates a socket from which data can be read whenever required.
Many Nagios addons use Livestatus as the backend like NagVis, Check_MK etc.

Installing Livestatus