Nagios XI Documentation

Dashlets are addons for Nagios XI that are used as “containers” to display specific information in UI. Once installed, users can add dashlets to one or more of their dashboards, allowing them to customize the look and feel of the … Read More

Managing users and their permissions is an important task for Nagios administrators – especially in multi-tenancy setups. This document describes Nagios XI user rights or permissions and how to effectively manage permissions to ensure security and obtain a web interface … Read More

Advanced Nagios administrators who have experience with managing existing Nagios Core installations or wish to migrate from Nagios Core to Nagios XI may wish to better understand how contacts and users differ, as well as the details of how they … Read More

Components are optional extensions to Nagios XI that can be installed by administrators to provide enhanced functionality to both end-users and administrators alike. For example, components are available for providing new notification methods and UI enhancements and modifications. This document … Read More

Dashboards are a powerful feature of Nagios XI designed to provide individual users with customized information they find useful. Dashboards are often used to display important, relevant information where it is needed most. Dashboards are specific to individual Nagios XI … Read More

Views are designed to provide individual users with quick access to Nagios XI pages and external websites they find useful. They are often used by network administrators who wish to display important information on wall monitors in network operations centers … Read More

This document describes how to configure Nagios® XI™ to run global event handler scripts in order to process host and service state changes, alerts, and notification information. Global event handlers allow admins to run custom-developed scripts with Nagios XI in … Read More

Nagios XI includes a backend API that allows developers to pull current status information and more in XML format for use by external systems. This simple API makes it easy to integrate Nagios information into third-party applications and external websites. … Read More

This document describes how to use Nagios XI to monitor VMware ESX, ESXi, vSphere, and vCenter Server with the VMware monitoring wizard. This document will show you how to set up your Nagios XI system to monitor virtual machines (VMs) … Read More

This document describes how to install the community-developed Business Process Addons with Nagios XI. Business Process Addons is comprised of two addons – Business Process View and Business Impact Analysis. These addons are useful for showing the high-level status of … Read More