Installing Nagios Mobile This document describes how to install and take initial setup steps for the Nagios Mobile interface on Nagios Core or Nagios XI, older than 2012RC2. Documentation - Installing Nagios Mobile   Final Thoughts For any support... Read More

Integrating MNTOS This document describes how to install the MNTOS (Multi-Nagios Tactical Overview System) monitoring aggregation tool with Nagios XI or Nagios Core. Documentation - Integrating MNTOS   Final Thoughts For any support related... Read More

Distributed Monitoring This documentation explains different solutions that allow Nagios to scale to monitor a large infrastructure. Documentation - Distributed Monitoring   Final Thoughts For any support related questions please visit the Nagios... Read More

Enhanced CGI Security and Authentication This documentation is an introduction for implementation of stronger authentication and server security focused around the CGI web interface. Documentation - Enhanced CGI Security and Authentication   Final... Read More

Event Handlers This documentation explains what event handlers are in Nagios Core. Documentation - Event Handlers   Final Thoughts For any support related questions please visit the Nagios Support Forums at: http://support.nagios.com/forum/ Read More

graphing Performance Info With MRTG This documentation shows how the nagiostats utility allows you to graph various Nagios performance statistics over time using MRTG. Documentation - graphing Performance Info With MRTG   Final Thoughts For any... Read More

Integration Overview This documentation shows there are several methods of integrating Nagios with the management software you're already using and you can monitor almost any type of new or custom hardware, service, or application that you might... Read More

Monitoring Service and Host Clusters This documentation will show you how you can perform cluster monitoring based on the state of other hosts and services. Documentation - Monitoring Service and Host Clusters   Final Thoughts For any support... Read More

Nagios Plugin API This documentation provides information about developing plugins. Documentation - Nagios Plugin API   Final Thoughts For any support related questions please visit the Nagios Support Forums at: http://support.nagios.com/forum/ Read More

Nagios, AWS, and Hosted VoIP - NWC13 Nagios, AWS, and Hosted VoIP Or, "How to automatically scale your platform to match your demand". SmartVox™ provides hosted Voice over IP (VoIP) services to small business and non-profit customers in the US... Read More

Performance Data Nagios is designed to allow plugins to return optional performance data in addition to normal status data, as well as allow you to pass that performance data to external applications for processing. A description of the different... Read More

Plugin Development Guidelines The purpose of this guidelines is to provide a reference for the plugin developers and encourage the standarization of the different kind of plugins: C, shell, perl, python, etc. Documentation - Plugin Development... Read More

SNMP Trap Integration There are hundreds of community-contributed SNMP addons and projects on Nagios Exchange. This documentation provides a few links to SNMP projects and categories that are most useful when integrating SNMP traps with Nagios.... Read More

The Art & Zen of Managing Nagios with Puppet - NWC14 The trend towards DevOps has brought new levels of agility and responsiveness to all sorts of IT organizations, from small startups to large enterprises. But with the constant production... Read More

Writing a Custom Worker This document describes the high-level steps for writing a custom Nagios Core 4 worker. Nagios Core workers are a new concept to Nagios Core 4 and there may be a situation when you would want to write a worker to preform a... Read More

Sending Nagios Core Logs To Nagios Log Server This documentation walks you through creating a Filter in Nagios Log Server that takes the Nagios Core log data and stores it into fields in the Elasticsearch database. Once the filter has been created,... Read More

Integrating Network Analyzer With Nagios XI And Nagios Core This document describes how to integrate Nagios Network Analyzer with your Nagios XI and Nagios Core installs. Documentation - Integrating Network Analyzer With Nagios XI And Nagios Core  ... Read More

Overview This article shows you several methods of sending a trap to your Nagios server to test SNMP Trap functionality. Sometimes when troubleshooting an SNMP Trap issue, it can be very helpful to remove the actual device that could be causing... Read More

Nagios XI - Twilio SMS Integration This document describes how to integrate Twilio component with Nagios XI for notification. The Twilio SMS component provides outbound SMS notifications from Nagios XI, thereby increasing the flexibility, reliability... Read More