Open AccessMonitoring Network and Service Availability with Open-Source Software
Author(s) -
Trevor Silver
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
information technology and libraries
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.502
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 2163-5226
pISSN - 0730-9295
DOI - 10.6017/ital.v29i1.3153
Subject(s) - computer science , open source , plug in , operating system , service (business) , software , world wide web , server , architecture , network monitoring , software engineering , database , art , economy , economics , visual arts
Silver describes the implementation of a monitoring system using an open-source software package to improve the availability of services and reduce the response time when troubles occur. He provides a brief overview of the literature available on monitoring library systems, and then describes the implementation of Nagios, an open-source network monitoring system, to monitor a regional library system’s servers and wide area network. Particular attention is paid to using the plug-in architecture to monitor library services effectively. The author includes example displays and configuration files. Editor’s note: This article is the winner of the LITA/Ex Libris Writing Award, 2009