Some customers requested a change in the way hypermap is shown on the screen in Nagios XI. It used to be shifted to the left, so we fixed this issue in the new version (1.1) of the Nagios XI Hypermap Component. Now the hypermap is placed in the center of the screen. It look great! Give it a try!
You can download the new version from the Nagios Library – Nagios XI Customer Downloads section.
Many customers showed interest in deploying NSClient++ to multiple machines across a windows domain, without the need to log in remotely or be physically present on these machines.
If you are using Nagios to monitor a windows environment, you can use FTP as a component to deploying NSClient++. We just posted a document on the Nagios Library, which explains how to configure FTP for Nagios. You can review it here.
Additional information on deploying NSClient++ via FTP in Nagios will be available soon.
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.
We wrote a short document that describes the requirements for and methods of managing remote Nagios XI servers. To learn more, read the document on Nagios Exchange.
We’ve had a number of requests from customers that need SMS notification capabilities in Nagios XI. SMS provides a method for sending out-of-band (OOB) notifications over the cellphone network, thereby increasing the reliability and dependability of receiving critical alerts and notifications. This can be especially helpful if you need to receive alerts from your Nagios server in your data center when your Internet connection fails.
To facilitate reliable SMS notifications, we integrated the Multi-Tech iSMS GSM modem with Nagios XI. You can find the integration documentation and component at the links below:
Documentation: MultiTech iSMS Integration With Nagios XI
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.
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
We came across an issue about a month ago where a user was losing data with a distributed/passive checks setup. Upon a closer investigation we uncovered that all of the passive checks were being executed every 5 minutes from servers that were all synced to the same time server. The result? Hundreds of checks were all coming in with a few seconds, putting a heavy load on Nagios, while the other 4 minutes and 50 seconds were going virtually unused by the server. After some discussion on this we decided to make use of a built-in tool for Nagios - nagiostats – and create a wizard that could monitor Nagios itself to see how the checks were coming in and being processed. Although multiple checks have been written in the past, we’ve created a new wizard that allows you to quickly create several checks against the nagiostats binary to monitor the monitoring environment itself. We’ve just released a 1.0 version of this wizard and we’re curious to know what users think of it. Feel free to give it a try and send us your feedback!
Wizard Preview
Graphs from the Nagiostats Wizard
