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Understanding And Using Nagios XI Views

Views are designed to provide individual users with quick access to Nagios XI pages and external websites they find useful. They are often used by network administrators who wish to display important information on wall monitors in network operations cent ...

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 ...

Accessing The Nagios XI Backend API

Nagios XI includes a backend API that allows developers to pull current status information and more in XML format for use by external systems. This simple API makes it easy to integrate Nagios information into third-party applications and external website ...

Using the Nagios XI Virtual Machine With VMware

If you'd like to run the Nagios XI virtual machine under VMware ESX, you'll need to convert the machine image. This quick video tutorial takes you through the necessary steps to get up and running.

Object Notes Nagios XI Component

This Nagios XI component provides an additional "Notes" tab when viewing host or service detail information. Notes about specific hosts and services can be shared with different users to ensure everyone has the vital information they need.

Installing XI Components

Components are optional extensions to Nagios XI that can be installed by administrators to provide enhanced functionality to both end-users and administrators alike. For example, components are available for providing new notification methods and UI enhan ...

World Time Clock Nagios XI Dashlet

A Nagios XI dashlet that will embed one or more world time Clocks for locations around the world. Powered by www.worldtimeserver.com

SANS Internet Storm Center Top 10 Rising Ports Nagios X...

A Nagios XI dashlet that embeds a graph of the top 10 rising ports from the SAN Internet Storm Center. Useful for spotting trends related to virus and worm outbreaks.

Internet Traffic Report Nagios XI Dashlet

A Nagios XI dashlet that embeds one of several Internet Traffic Report graphs from regions around the globe. Useful for spotting major trends.

XI Users and Contacts

Advanced Nagios administrators who have experience with managing existing Nagios Core installations or wish to migrate from Nagios Core to Nagios XI may wish to better understand how contacts and users differ, as well as the details of how they are joined ...

Understanding XI User Rights

Managing users and their permissions is an important task for Nagios administrators - especially in multi-tenancy setups. This document describes Nagios XI user rights or permissions and how to effectively manage permissions to ensure security and obtain ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nagios XI Server Monitoring Wizard

A Nagios XI monitoring wizard for monitoring a remote Nagios XI server. Useful for ensuring your primary monitoring server is operational.

MySQL Server Nagios XI Wizard

A Nagios XI wizard for monitoring various performance metrics of a MySQL database server.

MySQL Query Nagios XI Wizard

A Nagios XI wizard for monitoring MySQL database queries.

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.

Monitoring Websites With Nagios XI

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

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 ...

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 ...

Integrating MNTOS With Nagios

This document describes how to install the MNTOS (“Multi-Nagios Tactical Overview System”) monitoring aggregation tool with Nagios XI or Nagios Core.

Using MNTOS

This video tutorial demonstrates the MNTOS (“Multi-Nagios Tactical Overview System”) monitoring aggregation tool that can be used with Nagios XI or Nagios Core.

Backing Up And Restoring Nagios XI

This document describes how to backup a Nagios XI installation and restore an XI installation from a previously made backup. Backups are an important aspect of administration and maintenance, and can easily facilitate the migration of a XI installation ...

Nagios XI SNMP Trap Sender Component

This component allows you to easily configure Nagios XI to send/forward SNMP traps to other management hosts and Network Management Systems when host and service state changes (alerts) occur.

Google Map Integration With Nagios XI

This document describes how to download, install, and setup the Google Map integration component for Nagios XI.

Sending SNMP Traps With Nagios XI

This document describes how to configure Nagios XI to SNMP traps to other management hosts or network management systems whenever host or service state changes (alerts) occur

Using NSCA With Nagios XI

This document describes how to enable and use the NSCA (Nagios Service Check Adapter) addon with Nagios XI to allow remote Nagios servers and applications to send passive host and service check results to a Nagios XI server for processing.

Nagios Fusion Manual Installation Instructions

This document is intended to outline the steps required to manually install Nagios Fusion, along with its prerequisites and subcomponents.

Nagios Fusion Architectural Overview

This document describes the basic architecture of Nagios Fusion and how it integrates with remote Nagios XI and Nagios Core servers.

Nagios Core Online Demo

An online demo of Nagios Core.

Nagios Fusion Online Demo

An online demo of Nagios Fusion.

Nagios XI Business Process Addons Tutorial

This video tutorial demonstrates how to use the Nagios XI Business Process Addons component to visualize the status of business processes.

NagVis Tutorial

This video tutorial takes you through the basics of how NagVis works.

Monitoring System with CentOS+Nagios+Cacti Part 1/3

Part 1/3 of creating a system for monitoring your network using CentOS, Nagios, and Cacti.

Monitoring System with CentOS+Nagios+Cacti Part 2/3

Part 2/3 of creating a system for monitoring your network using CentOS, Nagios, and Cacti.

Monitoring System with CentOS+Nagios+Cacti Part 3/3

Part 3/3 of creating a system for monitoring your network using CentOS, Nagios, and Cacti.

Jose Luis Martinez Writing Nagios plugins with Perl Hel...

Jose Luis Martinez Writing Nagios plugins with Perl Hel...

Jose Luis Martinez Writing Nagios plugins with Perl Hel...

Send SMS from Nagios - Configuring SMS notifications

This video describes how to configure Nagios and Ozeki NG - SMS Gateway to send SMS notifications to cell phones.

Nagios Monitoring Video By Madhatt

A short demonstration of Nagios Monitoring software and using Filemaker 9 to produce some config files for it.

Nagios Nabaztag Notification Video by Desmopro

Nagios Server Install Bash Script (version 1.0) by nigh...

This is a demonstration of the install script I wrote to install nagios monitoring server as part of the senior project for my school. E-mail notifications and S.M.A.R.T. monitoring are not currently working with this script and will be added in a later v ...

Nagios Server Install Bash Script (version 2.0) by nigh...

This is a demonstration of the install script I wrote to install nagios monitoring server as part of the senior project for my school. The installation is being run off of a usb flash drive.

The SysAdmin Song

A funny video that sings the praises of Systems Administrators. Not really Nagios-specific, but something most admins can probably relate to. :-) See more videos at http://www.deadtroll.com/

Passive Check Nagios XI Wizard

This Nagios XI wizard allows you to easily configure passive services that should be monitored. Passive services are ideal for monitoring event log data, security alerts, and other asynchronous event/alert data.

Nagios XI RSS Notification Component

This Nagios XI component adds per-user RSS feeds for notifications. Makes integrating Nagios alerts with your RSS reader and external applications easy.

XI Notification Variables

This document describes the variables that are available for use in Nagios XI notification messages. Variables allow users to customize notification message to contain the information they feel is most relevant.

Website URL Nagios XI Wizard

This Nagios XI monitoring wizard makes it easy to monitor specific URLs for availability and content.

Nagios Quick Reference Guide - Portuguese

Marcio Pessoa wrote a quick reference guide for Nagios in Portuguese.