Take Control, and Automate Your Network with Event Handlers in Nagios XI
Event handlers have been a major part of Nagios Core and Nagios XI for long time and can greatly increase the efficiency of your network and decrease incident response time. From restarting downed...
View ArticleUnleashing the Power of Nagios — Utilizing the Actions Component
The “Action URL” component has been quietly deprecated in favor of the newer “Actions” component. The “Actions” component has been released for some time now and has been rolled up into the base...
View ArticleManaging Your Email Settings in Nagios XI
When monitoring your network environment, it is extremely important to receive email notifications properly. The Manage Email Settings page was created to allow you to manage these settings and ensure...
View ArticleMonitoring a Nagios XI Server
Many people rely on Nagios XI for their monitoring needs, but what happens if the primary XI monitoring server goes down, crashes, loses power, or gets disconnected from the network? For example, if...
View ArticleMonitoring VMWare with Nagios XI
It is quite easy to monitor VMWare infrastructures in Nagios XI. All you need to do is run the VMWare monitoring wizard, provided you had previously installed the VMWare Perl Software Development Kit...
View ArticleMonitoring Gas Prices Using Capacity Planning in Nagios XI
Nagios XI is the most powerful IT infrastructure monitoring solution on the market. You can use it to monitor virtually anything. Although Nagios XI is typically meant for more “serious” work, you...
View ArticleUsing The Mass Acknowledge Component in Nagios XI
The Mass Acknowledge component in Nagios XI makes it very easy to mass acknowledge problems with hosts/services that are in non-OK state. The component allows you to suppress additional alerts to be...
View ArticleMonitoring a Windows Machine with Nagios XI & NCPA
We have recently developed a cross-platform monitoring agent called NCPA that is designed to simplify the monitoring of devices with a wide variety of operating systems. NCPA can be used as a passive...
View ArticleMonitoring A Linux Machine With Nagios XI & NCPA
Last week we discussed monitoring a Windows machine with NCPA and Nagios XI to make sure that the server was functioning properly. In order to showcase the cross-platform capabilities of NCPA (Nagios...
View ArticleMeet Our Team: Nick Scott – Developer
We’re proud to have a great team of individuals at our company and wanted to introduce you to a few of them. First up, meet Nick Scott – one of the developer extraordinaires at Nagios. Nick is the...
View ArticleHow to Passively Monitor Linux Machines with NRDS & Nagios XI
When active agent-based monitoring is not an option (because of a firewall, or security restriction), passive monitoring can provide the solution necessary to maintain network security and health....
View ArticleMeet Our Team: Jake Omann – Developer
Meet Jake Omann – one of our top notch developers here at Nagios Enterprises. Jake is a key developer of many of our commercial-grade Nagios solutions, including Nagios XI, Nagios Network Analyzer,...
View ArticleMonitoring AKCP sensorProbe2 with Nagios XI Using SNMP
The sensorProbe2, sensorProbe4, sensorProbe8 and Probe8-X20 are intelligent devices for monitoring environmental variables, power, physical threads and security. Various AKCP intelligent sensors can be...
View ArticleHeartbleed: One Bug to Rule Them All
If you’ve missed the news in the last few days, OpenSSL has been found to contain a rather large issue it’s implementation of TLSv1.1 and TLS1.2 for versions 1.0.1 through 1.0.1f and 1.0.2-beta....
View ArticleNagios Network Analyzer Available in Amazon EC2 Cloud
We are pleased to announce that you can now easily launch your Nagios Network Analyzer™ monitoring server in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). We have clean CentOS 6 images with Nagios Network...
View ArticleMonitoring Your MongoDB Database and Server with the New Wizards in Nagios XI...
Every once in a while, a new database pushes to the front of the news. These databases generally bring a renewed schema and some neat tricks and features others may not offer. Due to the increasing...
View ArticleCheck Out the New Scheduled Backups Component in Nagios XI 2014
One of the coolest new features in Nagios XI 2014, is the Scheduled Backups Component. Backups may not sound cool and exciting, but in the event that your Nagios system has a major issue, or you want...
View ArticleUsing the New SLA Report within Nagios XI 2014
New to Nagios XI 2014, is the ability to generate reports based on service level agreement (SLA) statistics. In addition to the already included Availability Report, the SLA Report gives you the...
View ArticleExploring the New JSON CGIs in Nagios Core 4.0.7! (Part 1)
The JSON CGIs, from the JSON branch of core, have been officially released with Nagios Core 4.0.7! The original design goals were: To provide all information available in current CGIs in JSON format....
View ArticleMonitoring Website Defacement with Nagios XI 2014
There’s a new wizard in town and I don’t mean Gandalf the White! The Website Defacement Wizard is a new wizard available in the latest release of Nagios XI 2014. One of the worst things a company can...
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