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I see Nagios xi is being pushed as a "alternative" to Solarwinds, however when asked by team members if Nagios xi can perform the following, I'm not finding this functionality:

1) Download/Upload configurations to network devices
2) Update network device OS

Since we've had to shutdown our Solarwinds server, we are now faced with updating over 600 routers manually.
Software install/upgrade section: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/d ... c-ram.html

Has anyone here found a way to perform remote management of network devices from Nagios xi?

Thanks!

These are not native functions of xi, but could be doable with event handlers.

Event handlers are scripts that xi will run when plugins return certain states. Like a script to download a configuration if a current backup isn't available. Or a script to update a device if it isn't on the latest. https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ios-xi.pdf goes over event handlers in a bit more detail.

Getting the right plugins to trigger the event handlers is another step(and actually the first one). Nagios is able to monitor anything as long as there is a plugin for it. I usually recommend searching the exchange(exchange.nagios.com) as well as typing keywords + Nagios into your favorite search engine to find plugins that others have written to work with Nagios.

If a plugin doesn't already exist that does what you want then there is always the opportunity to create one. General guidelines exist at https://nagios-plugins.org/doc/guidelines.html. There are also a few ways of integrating a plugin with Nagios and below are links documenting some common ways.

https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ios-xi.pdf
https://support.nagios.com/kb/article/n ... a-722.html
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/ncp ... Checks.pdf

Looks like Solarwinds is being deployed again, so Nagios will mostly be focused on server monitoring, and I won't need to develop network monitoring solutions.

Thanks!

MonitorGuy wrote:Looks like Solarwinds is being deployed again, so Nagios will mostly be focused on server monitoring, and I won't need to develop network monitoring solutions.

Thanks!

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