Nagios XI Documentation

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

Nagios XI – Actions Component

This document describes how to configure the XI Actions Component. This includes the the custom url, linux shell/script, macro, and php code evaluation portions of the component. This document is intended for use by Nagios XI Administrators familiar with Linux … Read More

Integrating Mod_Security With Nagios XI

The purpose of this documentation is to provide a guide on installing Mod_Security with the Apache webserver and Nagios XI. This guide is directed towards Nagios XI administrators interested in securing the Nagios XI frontend with Mod_Security. Integrating Mod_Security With … Read More

Nagios XI – Configuring Email Notifications

This document describes how to configure and manage Email notifications within Nagios XI. It is intended for use by Nagios XI Administrators who are interested in integrating Email notifications into their Nagios XI monitoring environment. From the less experienced, to … Read More

Nagios XI – Configuring The Windows Agent

This document describes the procedures for configuring the Nagios monitoring agent on a target Microsoft Windows desktop or server for the purposes of monitoring that machine with either Nagios XI or Nagios Core. It is intended for use by Nagios … Read More

Using the Negate Plugin

This document is designed to assist Nagios administrators in understanding and using the Negate plugin in Nagios® XI™. The Negate plugin allows for any standard plugin output to be reversed and is very useful with hosts or services that are … Read More

Authenticating with Active Directory in Nagios XI

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 … Read More

NRPE Troubleshooting and Common Solutions

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 … Read More

Source Based NRPE Installation and XI

This document describes how to install and configure NRPE from source for use with Nagios XI. The linux-nrpe-agent that ships with Nagios XI is only supported on a few select distributions (RHEL and CentOS). As most monitoring environments consist of … Read More

Nagios XI – How To Use Capacity Planning

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 … Read More

Contributing To Nagios Translations

This document describes how to begin contributing translations to the following Nagios products. Nagios® XI™ Nagios® Fusion™ As Nagios continues to expand with different languages, we appreciate help from our community to improve the translation files. If you are interested … Read More