We’re constantly looking at ways to visualize data faster and easier. One of the solutions that’s being worked on is a new graph of alerts. Watch for this to be available for Nagios XI in the next few months.
Monthly Archive for March, 2011
As noted previously, we have many clients that are managed service providers. Designing an effective monitoring solution that works for their clients and their business needs can sometimes be challenging. We’ve put together a high-level document that describes some methods for designing monitoring solutions that can work for MSPs and other companies that need to monitor remote networks.
Read the document: Monitoring Architecture Solutions For MSPs.pdf
Many of our clients are Managed Service Providers (MSPs). The challenges they face when monitoring their clients’ networks vary greatly, but a common problem they face is how to monitor remote Windows machines that are located behind a firewall.
A simple solution to this challenge involves configuring the NSClient++ agent to act as a passive agent which reports it status to Nagios. We’ve written a document that describes the steps needed to configure passive monitoring of Windows boxes.
Read how to do it: Using NSClient For Passive Checks.pdf
Passive checks are extremely useful for integrating information from external applications and agents. They’re also the primary method of monitoring remote machines that are behind firewalls, proxies, and on private networks.
In an effort to simplify the setup of new remote agents and applications with Nagios XI, we developed a method for easily capturing and configuring new passive host and service check results.
Read How To Do it: Monitoring Unconfigured Objects With XI.pdf
Join us at the upcoming Nagios World Conference Latin America being held April 13-15, 2011 in Sao Paulo, Brazil by our partner OpServices. The conference offers participants an opportunity to learn more about Nagios, meet key members of the Nagios team and community – including Ethan Galstad – and learn about the latest developments around Nagios.
In the past months we’ve had several requests for better control and time specifications for Nagios performance graphs, and me being a big fan of fancy visualizations, I’ve been staring at the old PNP graphs for a while and wondering if there’s a way we can create graphs that look like they’re actually from this decade. After reviewing several different visualization libraries, we decided to take a stab at developing some new tools with some graphing libraries from HighCharts. Although some of the fine details are still being polished, our first prototype has us pretty excited about where this project is headed.
JQuery Performance Graphs in XI
Our first prototype is a zoomable performance graph, that allows you to specify start/stop times, and then dynamically zoom the graph all the way down to a 5mn interval for closer examination. Although these graphs are client-side, they can all be exported into either png, pdf, jpg, or SVG images to use in external reporting or presentations. Let us know what you think!
