Overview Nagios xi is composed of several parts.  This document will give you and overview how these parts fit together, and then accompanying documents will give move details about the individual parts.   Parts of Nagios xi   The major parts (and... Read More

Best Practices - NWC15 Best Practices? That’s like asking how long is a piece of string! While every environment is different, there are however a number of configurations, tweaks and methods that can be of great benefit for your Nagios xi... Read More

Cleaner Cron Overview The cleaner cron job of Nagios xi is responsible for removing old configuration snapshots as well as responding to callbacks registered for CALLBACK_SUBSYS_CLEANER.  These callbacks may be added to components for items that may... Read More

Command Subsystem Overview This command subsystem of Nagios xi is responsible for processing command that are initiated from the Nagios xi web UI.  Many commands initiated from the web UI require specialized scripts to be run on the system.  These... Read More

Cron Job Overview Nagios xi includes several cron jobs that run on a regular basis to perform one or more operations or maintenance tasks. These jobs are critical to the operation of Nagios xi. An overview of the cron jobs that are part of Nagios xi... Read More

Event Manager Subsystem Overview This Event Manager subsystem of Nagios xi is responsible for processing callback functions for each event that are initiated from the Nagios or other connected systems.  Events can be items like state change for a... Read More

High Availability and Failover Solutions for Nagios xi Intended for advanced Nagios xi administrators, this presentation will cover a myriad of High Availability and Fail-over options for particular environments. This includes manual/cold fail-over... Read More

How to Manage Remote Nagios xi Servers Managing a Nagios® xi™ server is an important requirement to ensure that the monitoring server can be configured to meet organizational needs and that application updates (patches and upgrades) can be applied... Read More

How Nagios xi Works This video will briefly explain how Nagios xi works and how you can simply monitor anything in your environment.       Final Thoughts For any support related questions please visit the Nagios Support Forums at: http://support... Read More

Introduction: Getting Started with Nagios xi This presentation will provide an introduction to the capabilities, features, and benefits of Nagios xi. The presentation will also cover differences between Nagios Core and Nagios xi, as well as how... Read More

Nagios xi Manage MIBs Architecture Overview Nagios xi allows users to manage their MIBs through the Manage MIBs page.  This will allow users to view permission, delete, upload and download MIBs.  This document will explain the Manage MIBs page... Read More

Maximizing Performance In Nagios xi This document describes how to maximize the performance of your Nagios® xi™ server in a non-distributed environment in order to increase the overall efficiency of the monitoring server. This document will cover... Read More

Monitoring Using the Full Power of Nagios xi Enterprise - NWC15 This presentation will take a close look at how the Enterprise Edition of Nagiosxi is used within Landis+Gyr to monitor systems, applications, and utility networks. You will get a... Read More

Performance Data Architecture The following diagram is the data/process flow of the performance data within Nagios xi.         Additional Information Please see the Nagios xi Under The Hood presentation from the 2015 Nagios World Conference for... Read More

Recurring Downtime Overview Nagios xi gives you the ability to schedule downtime that re-occurs on a regular basis.  This is called recurring downtime.  This document describes the components of the recurring downtime system, as well as... Read More

Network Switch and Router Wizard Overview Nagios xi uses configuration wizards to configure commands and services for any kind of monitoring.  The Switch and Router wizard is specifically designed for monitoring network devices and does this using... Read More

Nagios xi Terminology Overview This guide will cover common terminology used when working with Nagios xi and how each item relates to the overall monitoring system.  Each item will be covered at a high level.    Hosts A host in Nagios xi is a... Read More

Under the Hood - NWC15 What happens when a check is run? What are the parts that move behind the scenes to turn a service check into a notification? In this talk, Trevor will walk through the check process from start to finish, giving an overview of... Read More

Nagios xi Web Interface Architecture This document describes at a very high level the feature set found in the Nagios xi user interface.  This by no means is meant to be an exhaustive list, but more of a cursory overview.   With in the Nagios xi... Read More

DB Maintenance Overview This DB Maintenance cron job of Nagios xi is responsible for optimizing and truncating database tables based on the user defined settings located in Admin -> Performance Settings -> Database Tab.   Architecture... Read More