Nagios XI is an advanced IT infrastructure monitoring solution offering comprehensive monitoring, alerting, graphing, and reporting capabilities, with enhancements for ease of use and multitenancy. The platform supports various configurations, customizable alerts, and an intuitive dashboard interface, facilitating efficient management of IT resources. Key features include detailed reporting options, user management, and the ability to connect through various protocols, making it suitable for diverse monitoring needs.

1. Getting Started with Nagios XI
Shamas Demoret

2. Introduction & Agenda
Nagios XI/ Nagios Core
Multi-tenancy
Extensibility – Components, Dashlets, MIBs, Plugins, Config Wizards
Dashboards & Views
Reports & Visualizations – Capacity Planning
Home Menu Features
Configuration Wizards
CCM
Backup & Restore
Enterprise Edition
What's New in XI 2014
Nagios: The Industry Standard in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

3. Nagios Core/ Nagios XI
Nagios Core:
Comprehensive Monitoring and Alerting
Basic Web Display
Flat-text CLI Configuration
Extendable
Nagios XI:
Comprehensive Monitoring, Alerting, Graphing, and Reporting
Enhanced Ease of Use – Powerful Web GUI, Wizards
Dashboards
Views
Reports
CCM
Backend API
Integrated DB

4. XI:Multitenancy
User Management Made Easy:
Individually (Standard)
In bulk (Enterprise)
Customizable alert time-periods
Internationalization
English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese,
Russian, Simplified & Traditional Chinese
Customizable alert content
Determine what each user can see & do

5. User Options Overview
Account Information
Home Page Options
Help System -->
Notification Prefs --------------->
Notification Methods
email, text, RSS, SMS
Notification Messages
Send Test Notifications

6. Manage Users
Easy management
Granular visibility/ capabilities

7. Notification Management
Bulk Notification Templates
Enterprise feature

8. System Extensions
eXtend XI:
Components
Dashlets
Config Wizards
Plugins
SNMP MIBs ----->

9. Nagios Exchange

10. Dashboards
● Versatile, Customizable
● Home Dashboard
● Deploy/Sync (Ent)
● Many Dashlets
● Snap to grid (new)
● Easily add to Views

11. Homepage Dashboard

12. Views
➢ Perfect for NOC screen
➢ Easy to manage
➢ Rotate (variable speed)
➢ Any URL, in XI or External
➢ Easy to add any XI page
Default Views
➢ Tactical Overview
➢ Open Problems
➢ Host Detail
➢ Service Detail
➢ Hostgroup Overview
➢ Birdseye

13. Views Screenshots

14. Views Screenshots

15. Reports
➢ Many different types
➢ Customizable date ranges
➢ Filter by Host/Service/Group
➢ Leverage historical perf data
➢ Exportable as CSV and/or PDF
➢ Can be emailed directly from XI
➢ Scheduled Delivery (Enterprise)

16. Reports
● Capacity Planning
● Availability
● SLA
● State History
● Top Alert Producers
● Alert Histogram
● Notifications
● Event Log
● Bandwidth
● Network Replay
● Network Report (Network Analyzer)
● Network Query (Network Analyzer)

17. Executive Summary

18. Top Alert Producers

19. Capacity Planning
Easy to use insight into future performance

20. SLA

21. Bandwidth

22. Network Report/ Network Query
Top Talkers (by source
IP/port or destination IP/port)
Top by bytes
Top by packets
Network Query

23. Visualizations

24. Home Menu Features

25. Host Status Detail
● Connect via RDP, SSH, VNC, Telnet

26. Birdseye

27. Business Process Intelligence (BPI)

28. NagVis
● Nagios data visualization tool

29. Hypermap

30. Metrics

31. Graph Explorer

32. Wizards
Windows Desktop, Server, Exchange
Linux Server, Linux SNMP
Mac OSX
AIX, Solaris
VMWare (host, guest, vCenter)
Network Switch & Router
Printers
Mailservers, Email Deliver
MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MSSQL, MongoDB
Website, Synthetic Transaction (webinject.org), Site Defacement, DDoommaaiinn EExxppiirraattiioonn
SNMP, SNMP Walk, SNMP Trap
Bulk Host Cloning and Import
Auto-Discovery and More!

33. Linux Server Wizard

34. Linux Server Wizard

35. Linux Server Wizard

36. Linux Server Wizard

37. Linux Server Wizard

38. Linux Server Wizard

39. Auto-Discovery

40. Auto-Discovery

41. Bulk Host Cloning and Import

42. Core Config Manager
Powerful, Advanced Configuration GUI – Needs new screenshot

43. Backup/Restore
Admin → Scheduled Backups &
Admin → Config Snapshots

44. New in XI 2014
● Performance – Core 4
● Enhanced Visualizations & Graphing
Engine.
● Updated Web Interface
● Instant Remote Host Access: RDP,
VNC, Telnet, or SSH
● Service Status Dashboard Nagios XI
2014
● Automatic Decommissioning
● Mass Acknowledgment Tool
● New Wizards: Updated
Switch/Router Wizard, MongoDB
Server Wizard, MongoDB Database
Wizard, Domain Expiration Wizard,
and an NCPA Wizard.
● Interface Upgrade
● Help System Integration
● Service-Level Agreement (SLA)
Report
● Automated Back-Up Scheduler
● Advanced Configuration Snapshot
Archive

45. Enterprise
➢ Scheduled Reports & Pages
➢ Audit Log
➢ Bulk Modification
➢ Capacity Planning & SLA Reports
➢ Interface Console
➢ Advanced BPI
➢ Dashboard Deployment & Sync
➢ Automated Decommissioning
➢ Bulk Notification Settings

46. Getting Started
Free 60 Day Trial (fully functional)
Quickstarts & JumpStart Sessions
support.nagios.com/forum
More Presentations
Program Guide and USB's
Nagios.com

47. Questions?
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