Monitoring Configuration

Monitoring Websites With Nagios XI

This document describes how to monitor websites effectively with Nagios XI. Website monitoring includes HTTP response validity, DNS resolution, IP address match, website content, SSL certificates, and web transactions.

Monitoring Websites With Nagios XI

Monitoring Wizards

Monitoring wizards provide users with a method of monitoring new devices, services, and applications easily.

Installing Additional Wizards

Nagios XI comes with standard set of monitoring wizards. Additional wizards can be obtained from the Nagios Exchange website. For information on installing additional wizards, see the documentation below.

Installing XI Configuration Wizards

Running A Wizard

The example below takes you through the Website monitoring wizard to demonstrate how wizards work.

To get started with monitoring a new device, service, or application, select the appropriate wizard from the available list.

After selecting the appropriate wizard, Nagios XI will ask for the relevant host information. This information will vary depending the type of monitor you're setting up. For this example, the website wizard asks for the URL of the site to be monitored.

After providing the requested host information, the monitoring wizard will ask for the information relevant to the services you can monitor for the selected host.

The wizard will then ask for the time increments for monitoring the host and services.

The wizard will then allow you to specify the circumstances and contacts for notifications relating to the hosts and services.

The wizard will then ask for any final settings that may be necessary to monitor the hosts and services.

Click the Apply button to submit the items you selected to monitor to the underlying monitoring engine.

Congratulations! The new devices, services, and applications you chose to monitor with the wizard will now be available in the Nagios XI interface.

Core Configuration Manager

The Core Configuration Manager provides an advanced interface for managing the Nagios XI monitoring engine. Read more about the Core Configuration Manager

XI Host Management

This document describes how to manage hosts and host groups using the Nagios XI Core Config Manager. This document is intended for use by Nagios XI Administrators and assumes the reader has administrator privileges for the Core Config Manager.

XI Host Management

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.

Nagios XI Notification Variables

Changing Host Alive Check

This document will describe how to change the status check on the host in Nagios XI.

Changing Host Alive Check

Monitoring VMware with Nagios XI

This document describes how to use Nagios XI to monitor VMware ESX, ESXi, vSphere, and vCenter Server. This document will show you how to monitor virtual machines (VMs) deployed on these products. The document is intended to be used in conjunction with the VMware configuration wizard located on Nagios Exchange.

Monitoring VMware with Nagios XI

Monitoring AIX With Nagios

This document describes how to monitor AIX servers using Nagios. The instructions were contributed by Joshua Whitaker, who successfully configured Nagios to monitor AIX 5.3 servers. Thanks Joshua!

Monitoring AIX With Nagios

Monitoring Hosts Using NRPE

This document describes how to monitor hosts with Nagios XI by using NRPE. This document is intended for use by Nagios XI Administrators who want to setup custom monitoring of servers using NRPE or who have existing hosts with the NRPE agent already installed and configured. This is especially useful to administrators who are migrating from Nagios Core to Nagios XI and are already monitoring Linux/Unix machines using NRPE.

Monitoring Hosts Using NRPE

Monitoring Hosts Using SSH

This document describes how to monitor hosts with Nagios XI by using SSH to execute monitoring plugins and scripts on remote machines. This document is intended for use by Nagios XI Administrators who want to setup custom monitoring of servers using SSH or who have existing hosts that are already being monitored using SSH.

Monitoring Hosts Using SSH

Monitoring Oracle Databases

Oracle Plugin Installation Instructions

This document shows how to install and configure the check_oracle_health plugin in order to monitor Oracle databases with Nagios XI.

Oracle Plugin Installation Instructions

Maintaining Manual Object Configuration Files in Nagios XI

Nagios admins who wish to maintain portions of their configuration outside of the Nagios XI web configuration GUI may do so by using external configuration files that are either manually maintained or generated by an external system such as a version control system (e.g. SVN or CVS). This guide shows you how to set external configuration files, verify their validity, and resolve errors.

XI Manual Object Config Files

Monitoring Linux Using SNMP

This document describes how to monitor Linux machines with Nagios XI using SNMP. SNMP is an “agentless” method of monitoring network devices and servers, and is often preferable to installing dedicated agents on target machines.

Monitoring Linux Using SNMP

Using NRDP With Nagios XI

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.

NRDP_Overview.pdf

Log Monitoring with Swatch

This document describes how to use the Simple Log Watcher (Swatch) in conjunction with Nagios in order to be notified when certain events are noted in the system log.

Log_Monitoring_With_Swatch.pdf

Monitoring WatchGuard

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.

WatchGuard Wizard Usage

Bulk Host Import Wizard Usage

This document describes how to use the Bulk Host Import Wizard in Nagios XI. It is intended for use by Nagios XI Administrators. The Bulk Host Import wizard allows you to easily import new hosts and services into Nagios XI using a CSV dump. Imported hosts have services that are replicated to match an already existing host the user selects as a template. This import tool is extremely useful for large environments that want to quickly setup several hosts to be monitored in the same manner.

Nagios XI – Bulk Host Import Wizard Usage