Nagios is a well-known monitoring framework; it’s also known for its plugins, the software components that are actually providing monitoring capabilities. IPHost allows using Nagios plugins directly; we have detailed instructions on setting up and using Nagios plugins; below is the essence of these instructions. Plugins can be anything executable – native application, a script file (including Unix shell files or Windows PowerShell scripts) and so on.

December 12, 2019 It’s a perfect storm: infrastructure silos, increasing volumes of data, growing hybrid infrastructures, and mounting anomalies can bring down enterprise applications, or at least compromise availability or performance. These forces in combination have already outstripped the human capacity and intuition to solve infrastructure issues – which may occur routinely or unpredictably.

The networking field is changing quickly with the emergence of new technologies. This change, along with the onset of digital transformation and increasing cloud-adoption, highlights how businesses have realized the importance of the third platform, as it interconnects mobile computing, cloud computing, social media, and information analytics. 2019 has been the year of edge computing and the dawn of the SD-WAN.