1) Explain in detail about nagios plugins?  
2) Describe the Nagios XI? 
3) What is Nagios? Explain the features of Nagios? 
4) How to write custom plugin in Nagios? 
5) Discuss Nagios Architecture? 
6) Explain the process of scheduling and report templates in nagios?  
7) How does Nagios work? Highlights the benefits of using Nagios for monitoring? 
8) Describe the process to verify the Nagios configuration? 
9) Define the objects in Nagios? What are the types of objects you can witness in Nagios? 
10)Explain Main Configuration file of Nagios and its location? 
11)Name down some databases that support Nagios monitoring? 
12) Explain about time period definitions and command definitions 
13) Highlight the primary benefits of monitoring the websites with Nagios? 
14) Do you know the port numbers Nagios use to monitor its clients? 
15) Write down the protocols that support Nagios 
16) Discuss NRPE in Nagios?   
17) How can we get alerts for AWS services using Nagios other than alerts from AWS SNS? 
18) What is the difference between Active and Passive check in Nagios? 
19)  What is the normal way to provide arguments in nagios nrpe commands. 
20) Explain in detail about Redundancy And Security Planning in nagios? 
21) Explain how to monitor hosts with Nagios XI by using SSH 
22) How does Nagios help with Distributed Monitoring? 
23) When Does Nagios Check for external commands 
24) What is ocsp_command in nagios? 
25) What is the difference between HOSTADDRESS and HOSTALIAS macros 
26) Explain MRTG in detail? 
27) Explain Zabbix? 
28) Explain how Flap Detection works in Nagios? 
29) What is the current Nagios state type?  
30) What are the two main state types in Nagios? 
31) What is OpenNMS?  Discuss OpenNMS Configuration? 
32) Explain about OpenNMS filetypes?  
33) Discuss OpenNMS User management?  
34) What is RRD? Explain RRD xml templates? 
35) Discuss OpenNMS report generations? 

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