Nagios XI Documentation

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

This document describes how to mass deploy the NSClient++ agent. To accomplish this goal, we'll show how Microsoft's SCCM 2007 can be used to silently push NSClient++ and it's configuration files to many workstations.

This document describes how to enable rrdcached with Nagios XI as a step to improve performance and reduce disk I/O on large installations.

rrdcached is a daemon that receives updates to existing RRD files, accumulates them and, if enough have been received or a defined time has passed, writes the updates to the RRD file.

This document describes how to keep tabs on your network latency with Smokeping and Nagios XI. It is intended for use by Nagios XI Administrators who would like to be notified when there are network latency problems, either within an internal network or with an external host like a web server.

This document outlines how to fix permissions problems located under the /usr/local/nagios and /usr/local/nagiosxi directory trees.  This document is intended for Nagios XI Administrators who are experiencing permissions related issues with Nagios XI and should be used as a repair procedure.

This document describes how to install, configure, and use the NRDP (Nagios Remote Data Processor) addon with either Nagios Core or Nagios XI. This document is intended for use by Nagios Administrators.