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Hi,

Starting to explore Nagios for the first time, I'd like to check if the way to do on-going maintenance is the same or different between the free edition and commercial xi edition.

Looks like, the xi edition simplifies the installation steps.

And, the free edition requires CLI editing of various .cfg files.

Does the xi edition provide everything in the GUI way for configuration, on-going maintenance, etc. and hardly require any CLI intervention?


Thanks.


- Young

The majority of the configuration of Nagios xi can be done in the GUI. Having said that, sometimes, the use of CLI may be necessary for administrative work, troubleshooting an issue, etc.

Then, if I've used the free edition for a long time, I should have no problem maintaining the xi edition without having major learning curves other than a need to learn some GUI way of doing things, right?

Basically, the main benefits of using the xi edition are easier installation and easier configuration... and that's pretty much about it, right?

On the other hand, can the config files (nagios.cfg, cgi.cfg, etc.) be copied over from Nagios Core to Nagios xi and Nagios xi will function in the same way and vice versa?


Thanks.


- Young

youngsunsong wrote:Then, if I've used the free edition for a long time, I should have no problem maintaining the xi edition without having major learning curves other than a need to learn some GUI way of doing things, right?

Correct.

youngsunsong wrote:Basically, the main benefits of using the xi edition are easier installation and easier configuration... and that's pretty much about it, right?

And, unified per user dashboards and views, user-specific notification preferences, configuration snapshot and rollback, easily addon components and wizards, support, etc.

youngsunsong wrote:On the other hand, can the config files (nagios.cfg, cgi.cfg, etc.) be copied over from Nagios Core to Nagios xi and Nagios xi will function in the same way and vice versa?

We have an import tool to get your Core configurations into xi, and the xi configurations should work on core just fine as xi runs core under the hood. One thing of not is that xi arranges configs in a very specific manner, and while using xi you should only use the web UI to make configuration changes. We do have a directory /usr/local/nagios/etc/static which can be used if you have some configurations that you want to manage manually.