SoCS hosts a Nagios server which is available at “monitor.socs.uoguelph.ca”. It is an open-source monitoring service that is used within SoCS to monitor the status of all other servers. It helps identify when security updates are needed, flag when resource consumption is high, flag server errors, and more.

• Consider if there is a need for a secondary Nagios implementation to monitor the main Nagios server.
• Look into Host Groups for possible improvements.