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Nagios XI Makes Monitoring Easier:

Nagios XI is the easy-to-use, enterprise version of Nagios that features:

  • Web-Based Configuration provides advanced configuration features
  • Monitoring Wizards make it easy to monitor new devices, applications, and services
  • Customizable Dashboards allow for per-user customization
  • Integrated Performance Graphs provide trending and capacity planning information
  • Advanced Reports provide data insight and exporting capabilities
  • Data Visualizations enable powerful analysis of patterns and problems
  • Nagios Core Import functionality makes it easy to migrate from Nagios Core
  • ... and many other features

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About Nagios

Visit www.nagios.org/about/ for more information on Nagios - including features, capabilities, and technical specifications.

Installation Introduction

These Easy Setup guides are intended to provide you with simple instructions on how to install Nagios from source (code) and have it monitoring your local machine inside of 20 minutes. No advanced installation options are discussed here - just the basics that will work for 95% of users who want to get started.

Installation Guides

Easy Setup installation guides are currently available for the following Linux distributions:

If you are installing Nagios on an operating system or Linux distribution that isn't listed above, read the Fedora Easy Setup for an overview of what you'll need to do. Command names, paths, etc. vary widely across different OSes/distributions, so you'll likely need to tweak the installation docs a bit to work for your particular case.

Post-Installation Configuration

Once you get Nagios installed and running properly, you'll no doubt want to start monitoring more than just your local machine. Check out the following docs on how to set up the Nagios Core configuratio and go about monitoring more things ...

Enhance Nagios Core - Community Addons

Nagios Exchange Hundreds of community-developed addons provide additional GUIs and reporting, monitoring, and notification functionalities for Nagios. Visit the Nagios Exchange website at exchange.nagios.org to see some really cool things you can use to trick out your Nagios installation.

Nagios Library

Visit the Nagios Library at library.nagios.com for Nagios tutorials, videos, documentation, and more.

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