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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 Nagios XI or a Nagios support plan.

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

• Tech Tip: Monitoring Critical Debian and Ubuntu Updates With Nagios

  This month Tony Yarusso, a member of the Nagios Technical Team, shares his tips on how to monitor critical updates for Debian and Ubuntu with Nagios.

• Converting the Nagios XI VMware Image to VirtualBox

  Users who with to run the Nagios XI virtual machine under Sun's VirtualBox instead of VMware can do so by following this guide written by Tony Yarusso.

• Installing the XI Windows Agent

  In order to monitor a Windows desktop or server with Nagios, you must first install on agent on the target machine. This guide takes you through the steps of installing and configuring the Windows agent (NSClient++) in preparation for monitoring the machine with Nagios XI or Nagios Core.

• 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.

• Using The Nagios XI Config Import Prep Tool

  Nagios XI includes a configuration file import prep tool designed to pre-process native Nagios Core configuration files into a format that will be more easily manageable using the XI web configuration frontend in the future. The import prep tool should be used before importing native Nagios Core configuration files into the Nagios Core Configuration Manager included in Nagios XI. This guide shows you how to how to use the Nagios XI configuration file import prep tool.