Welcome to the Nagios Library

The Nagios Library serves as a central knowledge place for tutorials, videos, tech tips, and best practice information on Nagios.

Access to some portions of the Nagios Library content is granted only to current Nagios customers. You'll gain access to member-only material when you purchase commercial Nagios products and services.

The Nagios Library is the official distribution point for product downloads, technical documentation and tutorials for Nagios XI and Nagios Fusion.

• Visit the Nagios XI Section
• Visit the Nagios Fusion Section
• Visit the Nagios Core Section

• Nagios XI – Installing MSSQL Wizard Prereqs

  This document describes how to install the prerequisites for the MSSQL wizards and plugins.

• 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 networks often requires that an administrator configures firewalls and routers to allow access to management features. This document describes the requirements for and methods of managing remote Nagios XI servers.

• 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.

• Using Nagios XI In Amazon EC2 Cloud

  This document describes how to launch a new pre-installed Nagios XI server in the Amazon EC2 cloud.  This document is intended for use by Nagios XI Administrators who would like to bring up new Nagios XI instances in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) as well as those who are moving existing installations to the cloud.

• WatchGuard Wizard Usage

  This document describes how to setup your WatchGuard device and your Nagios XI server to allow for quick and easy monitoring of your WatchGuard device.

• Dashboard Deployment Component

  This Nagios XI component allows admins to deploy one or more of their own dashboards to other users. This can be useful when you design a dashboard that other users may want access to. Includes the ability to keep user's dashboards synchronized with the source dashboard.

  Note: This is a customer-only download for Nagios XI.

• Bulk Host Import Wizard

  This wizard allows you to easily import new hosts and services into Nagios XI using a CSV dump.  Imported hosts are imported and have services replicated to match an already existing host the user selects.  This import tool is extremely useful for large environments that want to quickly setup several hosts to be monitored in the same manner.

  Note: This is a customer-only download for Nagios XI.

• Latest Alerts Component

  This Nagios XI component allows you to quickly see the latest host and services alerts in your monitored environment.  The alert dashboard shows which problems are  handled or unhandled and which services are impacted by problems.  It also allows you to quickly investigate and react to problems that are discovered.

  Note: This is a customer-only download for Nagios XI.

• Graph Explorer Component

  The Graph Explorer component utilizes javascript libraries to create interactive graphing tools for Nagios XI, including zoomable performance graphs, time-stacked performance graphs to compare data for periods of time, custom time selections and more!  This is a Nagios XI Customer-only download.

  
  

• Alertstream Visualization Component

  The alertstream component for Nagios XI allows users to quickly and easily spot problematic hosts and services over time in a "streamgraph" format.  Drill-down capability is supported and user can specify different time frames, hostgroups, and servicegroups for the report.