Category: Nagios XI Documentation

Installing XI Configuration Wizards

Configuration wizards provide a user-friendly means of monitoring new devices, services, and applications in Nagios XI. This document takes administrators through the simple steps of obtaining and installing additional configuration wizards to extend Nagi ...

Installing XI Dashlets

Dashlets are addons for Nagios XI that are used as "containers" to display specific information in UI. Once installed, users can add dashlets to one or more of their dashboards, allowing them to customize the look and feel of the information they find mos ...

Integrating Mod Gearman with Nagios XI

The following is a documented guide on how to install Mod Gearman locally on your Nagios XI system(s) and from there tie it in with external worker systems to offload checks from the hardware Nagios XI resides on. This will reduce check latency and increa ...

Integrating Mod_Security With Nagios XI

The purpose of this documentation is to provide a guide on installing Mod_Security with the Apache webserver and Nagios XI. This guide is directed towards Nagios XI administrators interested in securing the Nagios XI frontend with Mod_Security.

Integrating Nagios Incident Manager with Nagios XI

This document describes how to integrate Nagios XI events with Nagios Incident Manager. It is intended for use by Administrators who wish to automatically create and manage Nagios XI incidents in Nagios Incident Manager. This document assumes the reader h ...

Integrating NagVis With Nagios XI

NagVis is a popular network and system visualization tool used by many organizations to enhance their Nagios installations. This document takes administrators through the simple steps of integrating NagVis with Nagios XI.

Integrating Slack With Nagios XI

This document describes how integrate the Slack messaging platform with Nagios XI. This integration will allow Nagios XI to send notifications to Slack channels, enabling teams to see the health of their devices monitored by Nagios XI. This document is ...

Integrating SNMP Traps With Nagios XI

SNMP is a powerful and ubiquitous management protocol in most IT infrastructures. SNMP traps are often used by organizations to monitor the health and status of the network infrastructure. This document takes administrators through the simple steps of int ...

Log Monitoring with Swatch

This document describes how to use the Simple Log Watcher (Swatch) in conjunction with Nagios in order to be notified when certain events are noted in the system log.

Maintaining Manual Object Configuration Files in Nagios...

This document is intended to describe how to manually maintain external object configuration files with Nagios® XI™. External object configuration files are object definitions which are processed by Nagios XI but are not maintained or managed using the ...

Managing Plugins in Nagios XI

This document describes how to manage plugins on your Nagios XI system, including: finding and installing new plugins, defining commands, and using them in your services. Plugins are a great way to extend the functionality of Nagios XI. This document i ...

Managing Remote Nagios XI Servers

Managing a Nagios XI server is an important requirement to ensure that the monitoring server can be configured to meet organizational needs and that application updates (patches and upgrades) can be applied. Nagios XI servers that are placed on remote net ...

Managing XI Monitoring Plugins

Managing monitoring plugins in Nagios XI is a necessary task for admins who wish to extend monitoring capabilities by uploading custom or third-party plugins. This guide takes you through the process of uploading new plugins and creating command definitio ...

Manual Installation Instructions for Nagios XI

Experienced Nagios administrators who want to install Nagios XI on physical servers can use this guide to get started. Note: Nagios XI can only be installed to RHEL, CentOS Linux distributions.

Maximizing XI Performance

This document describes how to maximize the performance of your Nagios XI server in a non-distributed environment. This document will discuss maximizing active checks on a single Nagios XI server, and is intended for Administrators using primarily active ...

Migrating From Nagios Core To Nagios XI

This guide takes you through the basic steps involved in migrating from an existing Nagios Core installation to Nagios XI.

Monitoring A Nagios XI Server

Nagios administrators often need to ensure that their primary monitoring server is operating properly and can reach the Internet to send alert notifications via email and other methods. This document describes how to effectively monitor a primary Nagios ...

Monitoring A Websensor EM08

This document describes how to monitor environmental conditions (temperature, relative humidity, and light level) with Nagios XI and a Websensor EM08 from eSensors. Using Nagios XI to monitor a Websensor EM08 will notify you of environmental element chang ...

Monitoring AIX With Nagios

This document describes how to monitor AIX servers using Nagios. The instructions were contributed by Joshua Whitaker, who successfully configured Nagios to monitor AIX 5.3 servers. Thanks Joshua!

Monitoring Architecture Solutions For MSPs

As a Managed Service Provider, you would be able to purchase a separate license for each of your customers and the good news is that we have license levels to fit any size organization, starting as small as 20 Nodes. In this model, we would provide you w ...

Monitoring Hosts Using NRPE

This document describes how to monitor hosts with Nagios XI by using NRPE. This document is intended for use by Nagios XI Administrators who want to setup custom monitoring of servers using NRPE or who have existing hosts with the NRPE agent already ins ...

Monitoring Hosts Using SSH

This document describes how to monitor hosts with Nagios XI by using SSH to execute monitoring plugins and scripts on remote machines.

Monitoring Linux Using SNMP

This document describes how to monitor Linux machines with Nagios XI using SNMP. SNMP is an “agentless” method of monitoring network devices and servers, and is often preferable to installing dedicated agents on target machines.

Monitoring Machines Using The NCPA Agent

This document describes how to use Nagios XI to monitor machines that are using the NCPA agent. NCPA is an advanced, crossplatform agent that can be installed on both Windows and Linux machines.

Monitoring Microsoft SQL With Nagios XI

This document describes how to monitor Microsoft SQL (MSSQL) with Nagios XI. This includes using the separate Database, Query and Server configuration wizards as well as the prerequisites required for these wizards to work. This document is intended fo ...

Monitoring OSX with Nagios XI

This document describes how to monitor OS/X with Nagios XI using the XI Mac OS/X wizard. This document is intended for use by Nagios XI Administrators that would like to use Nagios XI to monitor OS/X.

Monitoring Unconfigured Objects With Nagios XI

Passive check results for hosts and services that are submitted to Nagios by external agents and application using the NSCA or NRDP APIs are not processed by the monitoring engine until they are configured in Nagios XI. This document describes how to conf ...

Monitoring VMware with Nagios XI

This document describes how to use Nagios XI to monitor VMware ESX, ESXi, vSphere, and vCenter Server with the VMware monitoring wizard. This document will show you how to set up your Nagios XI system to monitor virtual machines (VMs) deployed on these pr ...

Monitoring Websites With Nagios XI

This document describes how to monitor websites effectively with Nagios XI.

Monitoring Windows With WMI

WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) allows for agentless monitoring of Windows machines. Nagios XI supports WMI monitoring, which provides admins with a simple method of monitoring their Windows servers and workstations without having to install or ...

Multi-Tenancy With Nagios XI

This document describes how to configure Nagios® XI™ to support multi-tenancy to allow multiple users or clients to share access to a single Nagios XI instance while ensuring those specific users have access only to hosts and services they are authoriz ...

MultiTech iSMS Integration With Nagios XI

This document describes how to integrate the Multi-Tech iSMS GSM modem with Nagios XI. The iSMS provides out-of-band (OOB) SMS notifications for Nagios XI, thereby increasing the reliability and dependability of receiving critical alerts and notification ...

MultiTech iSMS Integration With Nagios XI

This document describes how to integrate the Multi-Tech iSMS GSM modem with Nagios XI. The iSMS provides out-of-band (OOB) SMS notifications for Nagios XI, thereby increasing the reliability and dependability of receiving critical alerts and notifications ...

Nagios - Ports and Protocols

This document is intended to provide Nagios Network Admins with the ports they need.

Nagios XI - Best Practices

Nagios XI - Configuring Core Contacts to Use XI's phpma...

This document describes how to configure non-XI user (Core) contacts to use the SMTP phpmailer settings from the email management interface. This document is intended for use by Nagios XI Administrators who wish to configure Core contacts to use the XI ...

Nagios XI - How To Monitor Devices Using The NCPA Agent...

This document describes how to use Nagios® XI™ to actively monitor machines via the NCPA agent (Nagios Cross Platform Agent). NCPA is an advanced, cross-platform agent that can be installed on both Windows and Linux machines. This document is intend ...

Nagios XI - How To Use Deadpool In Nagios XI

This document will describe how to use the Deadpool feature in Nagios XI. This document is intended for use by Nagios XI Administrators who want XI to automatically remove failed hosts and/or services from the Nagios monitoring configuration.

Nagios XI - Installing Nagios XI In An Offline Environ...

The purpose of this documentation is to provide a guide for installing Nagios XI in an offline environment. The procedure in this document is currently in BETA phase, we do not guarantee these for production at this point, as we are still doing some fina ...

Nagios XI - Introduction to Event Handlers

This document describes how to use event handlers in Nagios XI to take predefined actions when the hosts or services you are monitoring change state. Event handlers are used to automate processes taken when there is a state change for a specific host or s ...

Nagios XI - Monitoring Windows Using NSClient

This document describes how to monitor Microsoft Windows using the NSClient++ monitoring agent. There are two different methods for communicating with NSClient++ and this documentation explains them both. This document is intended for use by Nagios XI Ad ...

Nagios XI - SNMP Traps With NXTI

This document describes how to use the Nagios XI SNMP Trap Interface (NXTI) to monitor and manage incoming SNMP Traps. This document is intended for use by Nagios Administrators looking to manage their SNMP Trap definitions through the web interface.

Nagios XI - Understanding The User Macros Component

This document describes how to use the User Macros component in Nagios XI. The component exposes the user and system macros available in Nagios Core to multiple areas of Nagios XI, allowing for more flexible configurations. This document is intended fo ...

Nagios XI Backend API Example Code

If you'd like to integrate host/status information from Nagios XI into a public portal or display of some kind, you'll likely be interested in our example backend API access code.

Nagios XI Component Development

This document describes how to use the Nagios XI Framework to access data and build a successful component. Components are developed to extend the functionality of your Nagios XI installation. This document is intended for use by Nagios XI Administrato ...

Nagios XI Database Optimization

This document describes how to configure optimal database settings for Nagios® XI™ for increased performance. Nagios XI stores current and historical information in various databases in order to facilitate reports and provide users with instant informa ...

Nagios XI Global Event Handlers

This document describes how to configure Nagios® XI™ to run global event handler scripts in order to process host and service state changes, alerts, and notification information. Global event handlers allow admins to run custom-developed scripts with N ...

Nagios XI High Availability

This document will explain the steps of two node active/passive cluster configuration for Nagios XI. Please test it in testing environment before go to configure in production.

Nagios XI High Availability Options

This document describes how to achieve High Availability (HA) capabilities with Nagios XI. The goal of High Availability is to ensure that if your primary Nagios XI instance stops or crashes, another instance will automatically and seamlessly take over th ...

Nagios XI Service Relationship Map

This diagram shows a graphical representation of how the components of Nagios XI work together. This would assist when reading the "Tips For Customising Configuration Wizards" document.