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Hi Gurus,
I need to find out the following information about Nagios xi
1.Is there an automated way of installing and configuration Nagios xi ( as well as the nagios xi agents )
2.What is the best way to call SQL scripts that generate report output with Nagios? Can these reports be presented in the web UI somehow, without significant effort?
3. How does Nagios xi store the state that identifies which of two servers or (applications) is currently “LIVE”

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Kind Regards

dominiqs wrote:Hi Gurus,
I need to find out the following information about Nagios xi
1.Is there an automated way of installing and configuration Nagios xi

Should be, let us know if this area needs improvement. You should download the VMWare image and play with it. You can also download the software and instructions for a "manual"(or non-VMWare) installation.

Cont dominiqs wrote: ( as well as the nagios xi agents )

We think there is room for improvement here, but let us know how badly!

Cont dominiqs wrote: 2.What is the best way to call SQL scripts that generate report output with Nagios?

You could be a bit more specific here. My guess would be that you'd want to use a check command that allows for SQL execution for your server. If there isn't one there certainly should be, as these are quite easy to write for a beginner.

Cont dominiqs wrote: Can these reports be presented in the web UI somehow, without significant effort?

Absolutely, Check commands have 3 values they return to Nagios. First is the status or condition it's an integer from 0 to 3. Secondly is the text displayed in the UI, Though I'm not sure a table would work well here, though one could do fancy HTML in the check command output to draw one. Third should be a machine parse-able set of graphable integers using full 32bit range.

Cont dominiqs wrote: 3. How does Nagios xi store the state that identifies which of two servers or (applications) is currently “LIVE”

Depends on why you ask, as usual. Nagiosxi get's the status of Nagios from the NODB, however Nagios stores it's data mostly in memory with flat files used as a backing store.