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Category: Nagios XI Documentation
Documentation on Nagios XI. For more information about Nagios XI visiti http://www.nagios.com/products/nagiosxi
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assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagiosxi/guides/administrator/The administrator guide for Nagios XI.
Nagios XI User Guide Featured
assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagiosxi/guides/user/The online user guide for Nagios XI.
Accessing The Nagios XI Backend API
www.nagios.com/products/nagiosxiNagios XI includes a backend API that allows developers to pull current status information and more in XML format for use by external systems. This simple API makes it easy to integrate Nagios information into third-party applications and external website ...
Activating Your Nagios XI License
library.nagios.com/library/products/nagiosxi/documentation/4This document describes how to activate your Nagios XI license key. License activation is required for Nagios XI 2011.
Adding Windows Disk Usage Checks In XI
library.nagios.com/library/products/nagiosxi/documentation/4This document is a basic introduction by example of how to monitor additional drives on a Windows client.
Authenticating with Active Directory in Nagios XI
library.nagios.com/library/products/nagiosxi/documentation/6This 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 authe ...
Automated Host Management In Nagios XI
www.nagios.com/products/nagiosxiThis document describes how to automate adding and removing hosts and services in Nagios XI from the command line. Some administrators may have need to automate the process of adding and removing hosts and services in Nagios XI for use with cloud computi ...
Backing Up And Restoring Nagios XI
www.nagios.com/products/nagiosxiThis 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 ...
Changing Host Alive Check In XI
library.nagios.com/library/products/nagiosxi/documentation/4This is a brief tutorial on how to change the host "Alive" check and give a brief introduction on Nagios's templating system.
Changing The XI System Time
library.nagios.com/library/products/nagiosxi/documentation/4This document describes how to change the system date, time, and timezone on the Nagios XI virtual machine, or a physical server running CentOS. It is intended for use by Nagios XI Administrators.
Configuring Downtime In Nagios XI
library.nagios.com/library/products/nagiosxi/documentation/8The purpose of this document is to show how you can schedule downtime for a service, host, hostgroup, or servicegroup within Nagios XI. Scheduling downtime is an effective way to prevent unnecessary or unwanted notifications from being received during a p ...
Configuring Inbound Checks With Nagios XI
www.nagios.com/products/nagiosxiThis document describes how to configure inbound checks in Nagios XI. Inbound checks are used in federated and distributed monitoring environments, as well as environments where the monitoring server receives passive check results from external applicati ...
Configuring Outbound Checks With Nagios XI
www.nagios.com/products/nagiosxiThis document describes how to configure outbound checks in Nagios XI. Outbound checks are used in federated and distributed monitoring environments, as well as environments where the monitoring server sends passive check results to external applications ...
Configuring Passive Services With XI
This document describes how to configure passive service checks in Nagios XI. Passive checks are useful when you want to receive and process data (such as security alerts and log events) from external applications.
Configuring SSL with Nagios XI
library.nagios.com/library/products/nagiosxi/documentation/4This document will describe how to setup SSL. This document is also to be used an initial point for troubleshooting SSL connections.
Contributing To Nagios Translations
library.nagios.com/library/products/nagiosxi/documentation/6This document describes how to begin contributing translations to the following Nagios products.
Converting the Nagios XI VMware Image to VirtualBox
www.nagios.com/products/nagiosxiUsers 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.
Customizing The Nagios XI Landing Page
www.nagios.com/products/nagiosxiThis document describes how to customize the landing page that users see when they initially login to the Nagios® XI™ web interface. One of the benefits of Nagios XI is the flexibility to customize the information users see in the web interface. Custom ...
Database Access For Development Purposes
Nagios XI comes as a ready to go monitoring system delivered as a virtual machine (VM). I have spent a bit of time developing Configuration Wizards, Components and Dashlets for Nagios XI and during this time I have needed to look at the backend databases ...
Distributed Monitoring Solutions For Nagios
library.nagios.com/library/products/nagiosxi/documentation/3Interested in scaling your Nagios deployment to monitor a large environment? Distributed monitoring may be the solution you're looking for. This document describes different methods for configuring a distributed monitoring solution with Nagios Core and Na ...
Enabling NRPE With NSClient
library.nagios.com/library/products/nagiosxi/documentation/4This document describes how to configure NRPE Listener in NSClient++ for Nagios XI on a Windows client system.
Enabling NRPE With NSClient version 0.4.x
library.nagios.com/library/products/nagiosxi/documentation/6This document describes how to configure NRPE Listener in NSClient++ version 0.4.x for Nagios XI on a client system. It is intended for use by Nagios XI Administrators using NRPE and NSClient++.
Excluding Hosts And Hostgroups In Nagios XI
library.nagios.com/library/products/nagios-xi/documentation/This document describes how exclude hosts and host groups in Nagios XI using Core Configuration Manager (CCM). This document is intended for use by Nagios Administrators who would like an understanding of how to exclude hosts or host groups.
Exporting the XI Configuration Database
www.nagios.com/products/nagiosxiThis guide takes you through the process of manually exporting the Nagios XI configuration database and checking for errors that need resolution. Manual exports are useful when debugging configuration errors - including the failure of XI to apply a new co ...
Fixing Global Permissions In Nagios XI
library.nagios.com/library/products/nagiosxi/documentation/5This 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 ...
Generating Graphs With Nagios XI
library.nagios.com/library/products/nagios-xi/documentation/This document describes how to view graphs of the devices you are monitoring in Nagios XI. This document is intended for use by Nagios Users and Administrators who need to view graphs of their performance data in Nagios XI.
Generating Reports With Nagios XI
library.nagios.com/library/products/nagios-xi/documentation/This document is intended to give an overview of how to use the reporting functionality within Nagios XI. This document is intended for use by Nagios XI Administrators that want to understand how reports work in Nagios XI.
Google Map Integration With Nagios XI
www.nagios.com/products/nagiosxiThis document describes how to download, install, and setup the Google Map integration component for Nagios XI.
How To Check For Windows Updates With Nagios XI
library.nagios.com/library/products/nagiosxi/documentation/5This document describes how to use Nagios XI to monitor for high priority updates from Microsoft on a remote Windows host. This includes critical and security updates, service packs, and update rollups. Monitoring for updates from Microsoft with Nagios XI ...
How to Integrate the Bischeck Plugin Extension with Nag...
library.nagios.com/library/products/nagiosxi/documentation/6This document describes how to install and configure the Bischeck plugin extension for use with Nagios® XI™ in order to dynamically monitor Linux machines with time-based thresholds. The Bischeck extension is an application that sends passive checks to ...
How To Monitor Apache ActiveMQ With Nagios XI
library.nagios.com/library/products/nagiosxi/documentation/7This 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 many objects are in the ...
How To Monitor Apache Tomcat With Nagios XI
library.nagios.com/library/products/nagios-xi/documentation/This document will cover how to monitor Apache Tomcat servers using the Apache Tomcat wizard and check_tomcat.jar plugin within Nagios XI, so that users may be notified when Java applications are behaving unexpectedly. This document is intended for use ...
How To Monitor Docker Containers With Nagios XI
library.nagios.com/library/products/nagios-xi/documentation/This document describes how to use the Docker Configuration Wizard to monitor your containers’ status and resource usage with Nagios XI. This document is intended for use by Nagios Administrators and end users who want to monitor their Docker contain ...
How To Monitor GlassFish With Nagios XI
library.nagios.com/library/products/nagios-xi/documentation/This document will cover how to monitor GlassFish servers using the GlassFish wizard and check_jvm.jar plugin within Nagios XI, so that users may be notified when GlassFish applications are behaving unexpectedly. This document is intended for use by Na ...
How To Monitor JBoss/WildFly With Nagios XI
library.nagios.com/library/products/nagios-xi/documentation/This document will cover how to monitor JBoss/WildFly servers using the JBoss/WildFly wizard and check_jvm.jar plugin within Nagios XI, so that users may be notified when JBoss/WildFly applications are behaving unexpectedly. For the remainder of this docu ...
How To Monitor Jetty JMX With Nagios XI
library.nagios.com/library/products/nagios-xi/documentation/This document will cover how to monitor Jetty JMX servers using the Jetty wizard and check_jvm.jar plugin within Nagios XI, so that users may be notified when Jetty applications are behaving unexpectedly. This document is intended for use by Nagios XI ...
How To Monitor WebLogic With Nagios XI
library.nagios.com/library/products/nagios-xi/documentation/This document will cover how to monitor WebLogic servers using the WebLogic wizard with Nagios XI, so that users may be notified when WebLogic applications are behaving unexpectedly. This document is intended for use by Nagios XI Administrators who wan ...
How To Monitor Website Defacement With Nagios XI
library.nagios.com/library/products/nagiosxi/documentation/7This 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 de ...
Importing Config Files Into XI
www.nagios.com/products/nagiosxiThis document describes how to migrate and import Nagios Core configuration files into Nagios® XI™. Importing configuration files is only required in instances where administrators wish to import configurations from existing Nagios Core installations. ...
Importing Nagios XI into Microsoft Hyper-V
library.nagios.com/library/products/nagiosxi/documentation/6The purpose of this documentation is to provide a guide on importing the Nagios XI virtual machine into a Microsoft Hyper-V environment. This guide is directed towards Microsoft and Nagios administrators interested in running the Nagios XI virtual mach ...
Installing Nagios Mobile
assets.nagios.com/downloads/exchange/nagiosmobile/InstallingThis document describes how to install and take initial setup steps for the Nagios Mobile interface.
Installing Nagios XI with Hyper-V
library.nagios.com/library/products/nagios-xi/documentation/This document is intended to outline the steps required to install Nagios XI within Hyper-V.
Installing Nagios XI with VMware ESX vSphere
library.nagios.com/library/products/nagios-xi/documentation/This document is intended to outline the steps required to install Nagios XI within VMware ESX vSphere.
Installing Nagios XI with VMware Workstation Player
library.nagios.com/library/products/nagios-xi/documentation/This document is intended to outline the steps required to install Nagios XI within VMware Workstation Player.
Installing The Nagios Ubuntu and Debian Linux Agent
library.nagios.com/library/products/nagiosxi/documentation/2In order to monitor a Linux/Unix desktop or server with Nagios XI, you must first install an agent on the target machine. This guide takes you through the steps of installing and configuring the Linux agent in preparation for monitoring the machine with N ...
Installing the Nagios XI Mac OSX Agent
This document describes how to install the OS/X agent for monitoring with Nagios XI.
This document is intended for use by Nagios XI Administrators that would like to use Nagios XI to monitor OS/X.
Installing The WMI Client For XI
www.nagios.com/products/nagiosxi/This document describes how to install the WMI client on the Nagios XI server. The WMI client is a requirement for monitoring Windows machines using WMI.
Installing The XI Linux Agent
library.nagios.com/library/products/nagios-xi/documentation/In order to monitor a Linux/Unix desktop or server with Nagios XI, you must first install an agent on the target machine. This guide takes you through the steps of installing and configuring the Linux agent in preparation for monitoring the machine with N ...
Installing the XI Windows Agent
www.nagios.com/products/nagiosxiIn order to monitor a Windows desktop or server with Nagios, you must first install on agent on the target machine. This guide takes you through the steps of installing and configuring the Windows agent (NSClient++) in preparation for monitoring the machi ...
Installing XI Components
www.nagios.com/products/nagiosxiComponents are optional extensions to Nagios XI that can be installed by administrators to provide enhanced functionality to both end-users and administrators alike. For example, components are available for providing new notification methods and UI enhan ...
