Tech Talks with Nagios: FAQ: Best Practices for Managing Configs? This video discusses the best practices you can utilize when managing your configs in Nagios xi.         Final Thoughts For any support related questions please visit the Nagios... Read More

Overview This guide on Best Practices is about host and service intervals and what you should take into consideration when designing your monitoring deployment.   Check Intervals - Be Realistic It can be very easy to setup your monitoring with the... Read More

Overview This guide on Best Practices is about configuration wizards and templates and what you should take into consideration when designing your monitoring deployment.   Configuration Wizards Configuration wizards are a great ice breaker for... Read More

Overview This guide on Best Practices is about host and contact groups and what you should take into consideration when designing your monitoring deployment.   Use Hostgroups Using hostgroups in your service definitions is one of the most powerful... Read More

Overview This guide on Best Practices is about macros and custom object variables and what you should take into consideration when designing your monitoring deployment.   User Macros – resources.cfg User macros are a way of storing and... Read More

Overview This guide on Best Practices is about monitoring the Nagios xi server itself and what services you could deploy.   Monitoring the Nagios xi "localhost" Do you know how your xi server is performing? Services you should ideally be... Read More

Overview This guide on Best Practices is about MRTG configuration files and considerations that need to be taken when using the Network Switch / Router wizard.   MRTG Clean Configs Your MRTG configs may be collecting more than what you think. In... Read More

Overview This guide on Best Practices briefly explains service dependencies in Nagios xi.   Service Dependencies When a host goes down, the services still get executed and can result in services in an unknown or critical state. Nagios suppresses... Read More

Overview This guide on Best Practices is about monitoring the Nagios xi server itself.   What Is Monitoring xi ? Probably the most important part of a monitoring system is knowing that it’s actually working. Nagios xi comes with a “Nagios... Read More

Overview This guide on Best Practices is about the Nagios xi server and different considerations you can take in relation to it's configuration.   xi Server Considerations Date and Timezone Make sure your xi server has its timezone correctly... Read More