Nagios XI Documentation

This document is provided to assist Nagios administrators in understanding and working with the negate plugin, which allows for any standard plugin output to be reversed.

The intended audience for this document are administrators with hosts or services that are expected to be in a critical or warning state but wish to show them as OK and vice-versa.

This document describes how to use the Active Directory component to allow user authentication and validation with Active Directory infrastructure through the Nagios XI interface.

It is intended for Nagios administrators wishing to allow users to authenticate with the same username and password in Windows that they have in Nagios.

This document describes how to troubleshoot NRPE agent issues. It covers solutions to common problems/errors and general troubleshooting tips. Additionally, it provides a simple framework to systematically drill down problems with NRPE.

This document is intended for admins who are having issues with the NRPE agent on Linux platforms. It assumes that you have some basic knowledge of how NRPE works, that you have installed and created a base configuration.

This document describes how to install and configure NRPE from source for use with NagiosXI.

This document is intended for admins who are new to NRPE or Nagios XI, and have to use a source-based install method of NRPE. (usually due to unsupported Linux distributions or security restrictions in corporate build environments)

This document explains how to better predict what the the future trends in your network infrastructure will be. Predicting trends helps in supporting network growth and sustainability, and is a valuable asset for anybody, from a junior network admin, to a C-level wanting a more overall view.

Capacity Planning within Nagios XI requires Nagios XI 2012 Enterprise Edition or greater, any previous version of Nagios XI will not have the Capacity Planning capabilities.

This document describes how to begin contributing translations to various Nagios products. This document is intended for use by Nagios community members wanting to help with the internationalization of Nagios products.

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 increase performance on your Nagios XI machine, allowing for greater check amounts while still keeping your system's head above water.

This document describes how to install the required certificate on the Nagios XI server for use with the Active Directory component for Nagios XI. This process is required if your LDAP server has a self signed certificate.

This document is intended for use by Nagios XI Administrators that have unsecured Active Directory component working but want to transition to using SSL.

This documentation is a guide to integrating Selenium web test scripts with Nagios. It is a start to finish guide starting from the ground up.

Often times, adding ports to a switch, or interfaces to a router must be done dynamically. This document shows how to add ports or interfaces to your monitoring switch or router using Nagios XI's Switch/Router Monitoring wizard.

This document is intended for use by Nagios XI Administrators who have dynamic environments and must adjust their switch infrastructure monitoring to reflect those changes.