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Bash and Python NRDP Clients for Nagios

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:

for SERVICE checks

Additionally, the bash version can take an XML file of check results formatted like so:

 

Cloud Images of Nagios XI Now In Asia

The latest Amazon Ec2 cloud images have been pushed out to the following additional locations:

  • Asia Pacific (Singapore)
  • Asia Pacific (Tokyo)

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.

Nagios XI Cloud Images Now In Europe

The Nagios XI ec2 cloud image is now available in the following regions in 32 and 64 bit versions:

  • US East (Virginia)
  • US West (N. California)
  • EU West (Ireland)

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.

Using Nagios XI In Amazon EC2 Cloud

Using Nagios XI In Amazon EC2 Cloud

Amazon Web Services (AWS)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.