Nagios XI Documentation

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

Nagios XI – Configuring Core Contacts to Use XI’s phpmailer SMTP Settings

This document describes how to configure non-XI user (Core) contacts to use the SMTP phpmailer settings from the email management interface. This document is intended for use by Nagios XI Administrators who wish to configure Core contacts to use the … Read More

How To Monitor Apache ActiveMQ With Nagios XI

This document describes how to use custom Apache ActiveMQ plugins and checks to monitor your Apache ActiveMQ server with Nagios XI. Specifically, this document shows you how to set up Nagios XI to get up to date information on how … Read More

Nagios XI – Understanding User Macros

This document describes how to implement and use user macros in a working environment. This is useful for users who want to obfuscate sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, etc. User macros are helpful in specifying paths to plugins and … Read More

Nagios XI – How to Monitor Apache Cassandra Distributed Databases

This document describes how to configure Nagios® XI™ to monitor Apache Cassandra distributed database implementations in order to ensure that data, as well as the hardware housing it, is operating properly. This document is intended for use by Nagios XI … Read More

Nagios XI – Log Locations and Descriptions

This document describes the Nagios Core, Nagios XI, and system logs on a Nagios XI server, including the locations and a brief descriptions of their potential contents and diagnostic uses. This document is intended for use by Nagios XI Administrators … Read More

How To Monitor Website Defacement With Nagios XI

This document describes how use the Website Defacement Wizard to monitor your websites for defacement, modification and malicious insertions with Nagios® XI™. The Website Defacement Wizard provides an automated method for monitoring your website for defacement, and notifies you when … Read More

Nagios XI – How to Generate SLA Reports

This document is intended to give an overview of how to generate and interpret the SLA (Service-Level Agreement) reporting functionality within Nagios® XI™. This report is very useful if you have SLA’s to maintain within you organization, especially if you … Read More

Nagios XI – Monitoring a MongoDB Database

This document describes how to monitor MongoDB databases with Nagios XI in order to monitor the number of collections and/or objects in the database, as well as size of the database. The information you collect by monitoring your MongoDB database … Read More

Nagios XI – Monitoring a MongoDB Server

This document describes how to monitor a MongoDB server with Nagios® XI™ using the MongoDB Server Configuration Wizard in order to monitor the health of your server. The wizard supplies checks to monitor the following: number of queries per second, … Read More

Nagios XI – How To Monitor JMX With Nagios XI

This document will cover how to monitor java application servers as well as how to configure check_jmx within Nagios® XI™ in order for users to be notified when java applications are not functioning properly. This document is intended for use … Read More