Author Archive for Ethan Galstad

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Managing Remote Nagios XI Servers

By Ethan Galstad on January 24, 2012

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.

Category: Configuration, Deployment, Distributed Monitoring, Nagios XI and Tech Tips. Closed Tags: access, management, nagios, putty, rdp, remote, ssh, XI.

Enabling Out-Of-Band (OOB) SMS Notifications In Nagios With The Multi-Tech iSMS

By Ethan Galstad on January 23, 2012

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

Component: Multi-Tech iSMS Nagios XI Notification Component

Category: Nagios XI and Notifications. Closed Tags: gsm, isms, nagios, notifications, sms, XI.

Nagios XI Operations Screen For Your NOC Monitors

By Ethan Galstad on January 20, 2012

A new Nagios XI user asked us to integrate a dashboard into Nagios XI that could be used to display the status of everything that’s being monitored on a NOC screen. We modified an existing project to work with Nagios XI’s authorization functions and voila – a new awesome operations screen for Nagios!