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Chapter 10 Nagios Integration
NAGIOS INTEGRATION
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Note If you have an existing Nagios deployment, you may want to use the console server gateways in a
distributed monitoring server capacity only. If this case and you are already familiar with Nagios,
skip ahead to section 10.3.