Nagios XI Documentation

Documentation on using Nagios XI. Documentation is meant to complement the Nagios XI manuals and tutorials.

Using NSClient++ For Passive Checks

This document describes how to setup NSClient++ in a way that allows Nagios administrators to monitor remote Windows machines using passive checks. Using_NSClient_For_Passive_Checks.pdf

Monitoring Unconfigured Objects With Nagios XI

Passive check results for hosts and services that are submitted to Nagios by external agents and application using the NSCA or NRDP APIs are not processed by the monitoring engine until they are configured in Nagios XI. This document describes … Read More

Activating Your Nagios XI License

This document describes how to activate your Nagios XI license key.  License activation is required for Nagios XI version 2011 and later. Nagios XI 5.x Nagios_XI_Activation.pdf Nagios XI 2024 Activating-Your-Nagios-XI-2024-License.pdf

Distributed Monitoring Solutions For Nagios

Interested in scaling your Nagios deployment to monitor a large environment? Distributed monitoring may be the solution you’re looking for. This document describes different methods for configuring a distributed monitoring solution with Nagios Core and Nagios XI. Distributed_Monitoring_Solutions.pdf

Configuring Passive Services In Nagios XI

This document describes how to configure passive service checks in Nagios XI. Passive checks are useful when you want to receive and process data (such as security alerts and log events) from external applications. Configuring_Passive_Services_With_XI.pdf

Nagios 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. XI_Notification_Variables.pdf

Nagios XI SMS Alerting Tutorial

Need to integrate SMS alerting with Nagios XI?  Mohammed Ahmed – network admin at Amana Steel Buildings – has contributed a great guide that takes you through the steps of setting up SMS alerts with Nagios XI. The tutorial can … Read More

Using Nagios Business Process Intelligence Addon

Nagios Business Process Intelligence is an advanced grouping tool that allows you to set more complex dependencies to determine groups states. Nagios BPI provides an interface to effectively view the ‘real’ state of the network. Rules for group states can … Read More

Using DNX With Nagios

The Distributed Nagios eXecutor (DNX) is no longer supported. We would recommend using Mod-Gearman instead.   Integrating_Mod_Gearman_with_Nagios_XI.pdf  

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. The ZIP file below contains some sample code for accessing … Read More