** Attention Mac OS/X Beta Testers **
We have put together a Mac OS/X Agent and Wizard for Nagios XI to allow easy monitoring of Mac OS/X Servers and workstations along with some documentation to put it all together.
Installing the Nagios XI Mac OSX Agent
Please take these for a test drive and let us know how we can improve them.
Nagios Remote Data Sender
, or NRDS is a component installed on a Nagios XI server that allows the administrator to create and manage configurations and plugins to be deployed with a passive agent that can be installed on a variety of operating systems. The passive agents downloads the current configuration and the required plugin from the Nagios XI server and run the checks and posting the results to the XI server.
Passive Monitoring with NRDS - Documentation
Nagios Remote Data Sender (NRDS) – Component Download
We have now released a CentOS 6 version of Nagios XI in the Amazon Ec2 for cloud monitoring. The new release is build on the x86_64 architecture and will be the standard for future builds.
In case you missed the announcement from Amazon, all instance sized can now be spun up with 64 bit images. This is a great step forward as it allows someone to start with a small instance at a much reduced price and as they grow they can take their same snapshot an start it up on a much larger system.
More information about running your Nagios XI system in the cloud can be found in our Nagios on Ec2 article in the Nagios Exchange.
The
latest Nagios XI – Amazon Ec2 cloud images have been pushed out to the following additional location:
The Nagios XI cloud images are an excellent opportunity to try Nagios XI without having the upfront expense of dedicated hardware and can be upgraded with virtually zero downtime.
Additional documentation on using the Amazon cloud images for your Nagios XI deployment may be found on the Exchange.
Using Nagios XI In Amazon EC2 Cloud
Now available 2 new clients to send passive check results to Nagios Remote Data Processor (NRDP) server.
We have just released:
send_nrdp.sh Bash NRDP Client
send_nrdp.py Python NRDP Client
You no longer need to install PHP or Perl on your client machines to run passive checks with NRDP. Both of these implementations can accept result piped from STDIN and you can change the delimiters to whatever you like.
STDIN results should be in the following order, for HOST checks:
HOSTNAME STATE OUTPUT
for SERVICE checks
HOSTNAME SERVICENAME STATE OUTPUT
Additionally, the bash version can take an XML file of check results formatted like so:
<?xml version='1.0'?> <checkresults> <checkresult type="host" checktype="1"> <hostname>YOUR_HOSTNAME</hostname> <state>0</state> <output>OK|perfdata=1.00;5;10;0</output> </checkresult> <checkresult type="service" checktype="1"> <hostname>YOUR_HOSTNAME</hostname> <servicename>YOUR_SERVICENAME</servicename> <state>0</state> <output>OK|perfdata=1.00;5;10;0</output> </checkresult> </checkresults>
The latest Amazon Ec2 cloud images have been pushed out to the following additional locations:
The Nagios XI cloud images are an excellent opportunity to try Nagios XI without having the upfront expense of dedicated hardware and can be upgraded with virtually zero downtime.
The Nagios XI ec2 cloud image is now available in the following regions in 32 and 64 bit versions:
Additionally, the new version will automatically install the latest Nagios XI when if is first booted. This will eliminate the need to change AMI ID’s when new version come out. While it is convenient to not have to lookup the AMI ID, please be aware when you first start your instance the current version of Nagios XI is installed and compiled at boot. This will take at least 15 minutes before the instance will become available. The amount of time will depend on the instance size you create.
Another change was made to meet Amazon security guidelines and now all instances have an ec2-user account to be used for ssh access. This user has full sudo access and will login with a key pair as usual.
Additional documentation on using the Amazon cloud images for your Nagios XI deployment may be found on the Exchange.
We are pleased to announce that you can now easily launch your Nagios XI monitoring server easily in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). We have available clean centOS 6 with Nagios XI pre-installed available for public and customer use. This makes it extremely easy for Nagios XI Administrators to start additional server without the need to procure or invest in hardware. Additionally, those wishing to demo Nagios XI can easily do so using the cloud.
The full how-to documentation is available in the Nagios Library article Using Nagios XI In Amazon EC2 Cloud
This document describes how to launch a new pre-installed Nagios XI server in the Amazon EC2 cloud and is intended for Nagios XI Administrators who would like to bring up new Nagios XI instances in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) as well as those who are moving existing installations to the cloud. Start a trial copy of Nagios XI in the cloud!
If you are new to Nagios XI, or would like to see it in action, this would be a fast and efficient way to give it a test run.
