Hi All.
I am Aussie living in London. Network Admin, and we've just decided to use Nagios on Fedora Core 6 for network monitoring and geeeez the learning curve is steep.
Im pretty keen to get good at this linux stuff - i've always liked "first principles" but it's very trying.
looking forward to participating here :)
Hi there - welcome to the forums!
It can be hard at first to get to grips with Linux, but we are here to help. :)
welcome to the forums, i think you'll find we are more than willing to help, and yes linux can seem a steep learning curve at furst but the best thing to do is percevere, you'll thank yourself later
cheers
anyweb
Quote:Hi All.I am Aussie living in London. Network Admin, and we've just decided to use Nagios on Fedora Core 6 for network monitoring and geeeez the learning curve is steep.
Im pretty keen to get good at this linux stuff - i've always liked "first principles" but it's very trying.
looking forward to participating here :)
As a network admin, you might be interested in
Linux Network Admin Guide (or the NAG), which was good enough it actually made it into print with O'Reilly.
Useful utilities for a network admin:
just some ideas for you to poke around in :)
enjoy the forums, ask questions! ;)
I am also a newbie and interested in Learning Linux.
As am also a Network Eng, suggested tools will be of great use for me.. Thanks... :)
I have installed Nagios on my Fedora 6 and I want to configure Nagat too. Searched lot.. But no efficient documentation...
Can anyone guide me on this?
Dunno about Nagat, but in terms of network tools:
snmpd for network monitoring (including router, etc)
mrtg to report results in a browser
nagios to show multi-server results (multiple MRTGs in effect)
cacti for nice graphs
awstats to graph results of logfiles, such as apache/ftp/mail/etc
Erm... and the other networky tools:
iptables for Firewalls/NAT
tc for Traffic control (traffic shaping)
tcpdump to sniff packets
nmap to port-scan boxen
Others (ifconfig/ip/netstat/host/nslookup) you'll probably know.