System Management

Directory Stucture

Understanding what's included in Nagios XI and where things reside on the filesystem is helpful for administrators looking to customize their XI installation. This guide provides the necessary information to get started.

XI Directory Structure

Resizing the Nagios XI Virtual Machine Disk Size

Need a bigger Nagios XI VM? This guide takes you through the steps required to increase the size of your Nagios XI VMware virtual machine.

Resizing the Nagios XI Virtual Machine Disk Size

Converting the Nagios XI VMware Image to VirtualBox

Users who with to run the Nagios XI virtual machine under Sun's VirtualBox instead of VMware can do so by following this guide written by Tony Yarusso.

Converting the Nagios XI VMware Image to VirtualBox

Backing Up And Restoring XI

This document describes how to backup a Nagios XI installation and restore an XI installation from a previously made backup. Backups are an important aspect of administration and maintenance, and can easily facilitate the migration of a XI installation between a virtual server and physical server and the design of a failover or disaster recovery instance of XI.

Backing Up And Restoring XI

Boosting Performance

Utilizing A RAM Disk In NagiosXI

This document is a how-to on setting up a RAM disk to ease the I/O time on often access Nagios files.

Utilizing A RAM Disk In NagiosXI

Offloading MySQL To A Remote Server

This document is meant to show a step-by-step guide for offloading the MySQL services from the central Nagios XI server to an external, remote server.

Offloading MySQL To A Remote Server

Maximizing XI Performance

This document describes how to maximize the performance of your Nagios XI server in a non-distributed environment. This document will discuss maximizing active checks on a single Nagios XI server, and is intended for Administrators using primarily active checks.

Maximizing XI Performance

Nagios XI Database Optimization

Nagios XI stores current and historical information in various databases in order to facilitate reports and provide users with instant information on monitored elements. Over time the Nagios XI database tables may grow to excessive size, resulting in poor performance and high disk space and disk I/O utilization. This document describes how to configure optimal database settings for Nagios XI.

Nagios XI Database Optimization

Using rrdcached with Nagios XI

This document describes how to enable rrdcached with Nagios XI as a step to improve performance and reduce disk I/O on large installations. rrdcached is a daemon that receives updates to existing RRD files, accumulates them and, if enough have been received or a defined time has passed, writes the updates to the RRD file.

Using rrdcached with Nagios XI

Repairing Database

This document describes how to repair the database used by Nagios XI.

Fixing Global Permissions In Nagios XI

This document outlines how to fix permissions problems located under the /usr/local/nagios and /usr/local/nagiosxi directory trees. This document is intended for Nagios XI Administrators who are experiencing permissions related issues with Nagios XI and should be used as a repair procedure.

Integrating Smokeping With Nagios XI

This document describes how to keep tabs on your network latency with Smokeping and Nagios XI. It is intended for use by Nagios XI Administrators who would like to be notified when there are network latency problems, either within an internal network or with an external host like a web server.

Managing Remote Nagios XI Servers

Managing a Nagios XI server is an important requirement to ensure that the monitoring server can be configured to meet organizational needs and that application updates (patches and upgrades) can be applied. Nagios XI servers that are placed on remote networks often requires that an administrator configures firewalls and routers to allow access to management features. This document describes the requirements for and methods of managing remote Nagios XI servers.