Assignment 3 – Nagios_Nagios_Devops BC = 2330070508

Nagios Assignment - 3

To Be Performed:

1. Use the previous deployment cluster
2. Check whether the FTP service is up or not (use the configuration files for this)

Continuing from Assignment 2 – Nagios:

EC2s used and Private IPs

nagios 10.0.1.146 my-linux-host1 10.0.1.164 my-linux-host2 10.0.1.228

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Before defining the service to monitor FTP, I checked the commands.cfg file to see if there were any pre-existing commands I could use. There, I found the check_ftp command.

On both host1.cfg and host2.cfg, I added the following block of code, making sure to adjust the host_name appropriately for each host.

define service {
    use                     local-service 
    host_name               my-linux-host1
    service_description     FTP Check
    check_command           check_ftp
    notifications_enabled   0
}

I install ftpd in my-linux-host1

sudo apt-get install ftpd

I ensured that the Security Group attached to the EC2 instances, which I’m using as part of my infrastructure, has ports 20-21 (TCP) opened to facilitate the necessary network communications.

Success

As expected, the FTP monitoring on host2 fails because I did not install ftpd on this host. This outcome confirms the dependency of the service monitoring on the actual installation of the required software.

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