Monitoring with Opsview -- Table of Contents -- Monitoring with Opsview -- Credits -- About the Author -- Acknowledgments -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 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 -- 2. Basic Configuration -- Configuring hosts, host groups, and host group hierarchy -- Host 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 -- 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 WebUI -- Using 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 -- 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 -- NagVis -- MRTG -- NMIS -- Summary -- 5. Opsview Mobile -- Configuring Opsview for Opsview Mobile -- Opsview Mobile on Android -- Opsview Mobile on iOS -- Using push notifications -- Summary -- 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 -- import_ndologsd -- import_perfdatarrd -- Opsview-web.log -- Debugging -- Common agent issues -- CHECK_NRPE: Error - Could not complete SSL handshake -- NRPE: Command '' not defined -- NRPE: Return code of 127 is out of bounds - plugin may be missing -- NRPE: Return code of 255 is out of bounds -- Summary -- 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 -- 8. Upgrading to Opsview Pro or Opsview Enterprise -- Why upgrade? -- Upgrading or fresh install -- Dashboard -- Prerequisites -- Entitlement -- Activating Opsview Pro or Enterprise -- Adding additional entitlements -- Summary -- 9. Opsview Pro Features -- Autodiscovery -- Firewalls -- Network scan -- VMware scan -- SNMP traps -- Configuration.

SNMP trap service check -- Exceptions -- Rules -- Matching -- Multitenancy -- Creating tenancies -- Summary -- 10. Opsview Enterprise Features -- Scalability -- Opsview databases -- Using remote databases -- Distributed monitoring -- Slaves -- Creating a slave -- Slave clusters -- Service desk connectors -- Installing the service desk connector -- Connecting your Service Desk System -- Reporting -- Configuring reporting -- Running reports -- Types of reports -- Availability -- Events -- Combined -- Summary -- 11. Additional Modules -- The multi-master module -- The Network Analyzer module -- The NetAudit module -- The NetFlow module -- Configuring NetFlow -- Viewing NetFlow information -- NetFlow and tenancy -- Opsview Pro versus Opsview Enterprise -- The Opsview Pro edition -- The Opsview Enterprise edition -- The Opsview MSP edition -- Summary -- 12. Opsview Dashboards -- Getting started with dashboards -- Business dashboards -- The Process Map dashlet -- The keyword dashlets -- The performance dashlets -- Technical dashboards -- The Network Map dashlet -- The Metric Pie Chart dashlet -- The host group dashlets -- The event dashlets -- The top services dashlets -- The Note Pad and System Status dashlets -- The NetFlow dashboard -- Dashboard options -- The automatically cycle option -- The sharing option -- Users and dashboards -- Requirements -- Technical dashboards -- Business dashboards -- The Process Map dashlet -- Summary -- Index.