Benefits of upgrading to Nagios xi R1.6

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atlantic
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Benefits of upgrading to Nagios xi R1.6

Post by atlantic »

Good morning,

We are in the process of planning to upgrade from Nagios xi R1.1 to the latest available version, Nagios xi R1.6.

What do you consider to be the biggest benefits in making this upgrade?

My management team is interested in improved/enhanced reporting. Also, will there be a way to poll network devices such as UPS devices to battery life and load capacity.

If there is existing documentation that I should be reviewing, please point me in the right direction.

Regards & thank you,

Mark Frew
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htel
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Re: Benefits of upgrading to Nagios xi R1.6

Post by htel »

All of the changes to xi since 2011R1.1 to 2011R1.6 can be found here: http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... S-2011.TXT

The majority of the changes are bugfixes.

There is an upgrade article here: http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... ctions.pdf

I have followed the upgrade instructions a few times and it works perfectly.

Both of the above links are on the main xi download page.

If the UPS devices support SNMP you should be able to monitor them. There may also be a wizard/plugin for your specific model of UPS on the nagios exchange.

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Re: Benefits of upgrading to Nagios xi R1.6

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There have been a a lot of under the hood bug fixes, so I'll just post some of the bigger changes:

- Fixed a database maintenance cron that could cause table corruption for some users.
- Created a new performance graph API that fixes several known issues related to performance graphs
- Complete SSL support
- Fixed XSS vulnerability from certain AJAX calls

These are what has been done to up to 1.6. There are many more. Also, have you looked on the library under the user only downloads? We have that jam packed with components that add some very nice features.

http://library.nagios.com/library/produ ... s/customer

and htel, thanks for the input!
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arnab.roy
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Re: Benefits of upgrading to Nagios xi R1.6

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hi ,

I see support for complete ssl , has anything been documented yet ?

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Re: Benefits of upgrading to Nagios xi R1.6

Post by nscott »

Arnab,

Sure is! Check this out:

http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... s%20xi.pdf
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arnab.roy
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Re: Benefits of upgrading to Nagios xi R1.6

Post by arnab.roy »

HI After,

Following the instructions and changing the line items in ssl.conf apache is no longer starting up, hence I reverted it back. The nagiosxi.conf on my system doesnt look like what has been mentioned in the doc. Can this be double checked I tried this after upgrading from r1.2 -> r1.6

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Re: Benefits of upgrading to Nagios xi R1.6

Post by nscott »

Arnab,

Could you post your nagiosxi.conf ? If there is sensitive info in there then email it, otherwise I would like to see your .conf file to further advise your course of action.
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arnab.roy
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Re: Benefits of upgrading to Nagios xi R1.6

Post by arnab.roy »

Hi ,

Here you go my config file,


<Directory "/usr/local/nagiosxi/html">
# SSLRequireSSL
Options None
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
# Order deny,allow
# Deny from all
# Allow from 127.0.0.1
# AuthName "Nagios xi"
# AuthType Basic
# AuthUserFile /usr/local/nagiosxi/etc/htpasswd.users
# Require valid-user
</Directory>

Alias /nagiosxi "/usr/local/nagiosxi/html"

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nscott
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Re: Benefits of upgrading to Nagios xi R1.6

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Arnab,

It looks like your nagiosxi.conf is pretty much stock. You should be able to replace it with this: [make a backup of it of course]

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#NameVirtualHost *:443
<VirtualHost *:80>
<Directory "/usr/local/nagiosxi/html">
#  SSLRequireSSL
   Options None
   AllowOverride None
   Order allow,deny
   Allow from all
#  Order deny,allow
#  Deny from all
#  Allow from 127.0.0.1
#   AuthName "Nagios xi"
#   AuthType Basic
#   AuthUserFile /usr/local/nagiosxi/etc/htpasswd.users
#   Require valid-user
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:443>
        SSLEngine on
        SSLCertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca.crt
        SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/pki/tls/private/ca.key
        <Directory "/usr/local/nagiosxi/html">
        AllowOverride All
        </Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Alias /nagiosxi "/usr/local/nagiosxi/html"
Now when httpd failed to start before, what was the error code? From your description, it sounds like it failed after you edited the ssl.conf. Since the only thing we changed in there was where it was going to look for a SSL certificate, can you verify that you moved the ca.crt and ca.key to the place that the doc specifies?

ls /etc/pki/tls/certs/
ls /etc/pki/tls/private/

And then double check that is what is entered under the SSLCertificateFile and SSLCertificateKeyFile entry in the ssl.conf.
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arnab.roy
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Re: Benefits of upgrading to Nagios xi R1.6

Post by arnab.roy »

Hi ,

Are you sure you have typed in the whole code as I cant see the alias and closing tag for the Directory </>
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