Nagios Incident Manager Public Beta
Nagios Incident Manager is an enterprise-class incident management application that allows teams and individuals to track and solve problems faster using a powerful web-based application that offers security, mobility, third-party integration, and tools for collaboration. Nagios Incident Manager can be integrated easily with Nagios XI or Nagios Core’s built-in event handling, or any other third party tool with an easy-to-use web API for creating and managing tickets. Nagios Incident Manager is currently available for public beta testing, with install instructions posted below. Supported installation platforms are CentOS and RHEL 5/6, and we recommend installing the beta on a clean system.
Beta Installation Instructions
cd /tmp wget assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagiosim/nagiosim-latest.tar.gz tar zxf nagiosim-latest.tar.gz cd nagiosim ./fullinstall
Documentation and tutorials are coming soon!
For Nagios XI users, see documentation on Integrating Nagios IM with Nagios XI.
Installing Nagios Core From Source
This document describes how install Nagios Core and Nagios Plugins from source on CentOS and Ubuntu servers, and is intended for use by anyone wishing to install Nagios Core from source.
The documentation may be found here:
assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagioscore/docs/Installing_Nagios_Core_From_Source.pdf
Automated Host Management In Nagios XI
This document describes how to automate adding and removing hosts and services in Nagios XI from the command line. Some administrators may have need to automate the process of adding and removing hosts and services in Nagios XI for use with cloud computing or large environments where solutions like Puppet or Chef may already be implemented. The procedures below outline how administrators can create their own automation solutions to safely add and remove hosts and services in Nagios XI while still maintaining the integrity of the monitoring environment.
Automated Host Management Documentation
Nagios Fusion 2012 Public Beta Available
Nagios Fusion 2012 Beta is now available for user testing! The beta is a free 60-day trial, but existing Fusion customers can use their current license key to authorized Fusion 2012. Nagios Fusion 2012 is a central dashboard and data aggregation for all of your Nagios installations. Fusion 2012 will integrate seamlessly with Nagios XI and Nagios Core 3.x installs, and requires no additional configuration changes on any of your Nagios servers. Requires Nagios XI 2011R2.5 or later for all XI features to be available.
Download Nagios Fusion 2012
Here’s a highlight of the current feature list:
- Unified authentication for all Nagios XI servers
- User-defined, customizable dashboards and menus
- Easily drill down to any Nagios server to find problems
- Fused Tactical Overview information
- Fused Health Summaries for Nagios servers
- Fused Alert Summary
- Fused Alert Histogram
- Fused Top Alert Producers
- Several new data visualizations
- Single Host or Service Dashlets (Nagios XI Only)
- Graph Explorer Timeline and Time-stacked graphs (Nagios XI Only)
- Hostgroup and Servicegroup Summary dashlets (Nagios XI Only)
The power exists in Nagios Fusion to aggregate almost any information across multiple Nagios installs. Here are some screenshots of the new beta release.
Integrating autoIT With Nagios
AutoIT is a very powerful set of software tools whichs allows the recording and writing of scripts to automate windows tasks, from moving the mouse cursor to sending key strokes. In this example autoIT is used in conjunction with an NRPE check to open firefox.exe and record the time it takes to load a URL, then sends this time to the Nagios XI server where the plugin pulls it in as a service. This may also be used to grab the loading time of a specific program or service and the script shows where this can be changed.
Having the ability to run these scripts via NRPE checks allows system administrators to custom tailor Windows server automation without having to initiate them locally.
Some of the abilities of AutoIT are as follows:
- Easy to learn BASIC-like syntax
- Simulate keystrokes and mouse movements
- Manipulate windows and processes
- Interact with all standard windows controls
- Scripts can be compiled into standalone executables
- Create Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs)
- COM support
- Regular expressions
- Directly call external DLL and Windows API functions
- Scriptable RunAs functions
- Detailed helpfile and large community-based support forums
- Compatible with Windows 2000 / XP / 2003 / Vista / 2008 / Windows 7 / 2008 R2
- Unicode and x64 support
- Digitally signed for peace of mind
- Works with Windows Vista’s User Account Control (UAC)
The above bullet points were taken from www.autoitscript.com/site/autoit/
Below is a video showing an example of the check website load time script in action:
Continue reading ‘Integrating autoIT With Nagios’
NDOUtils 1.5.2 Available
A new release of NDOUtils (1.5.2) is now available from SourceForge.
NDOUtils uses a message queue to communicate between the module that is loaded into Nagios Core and the daemon used to write data to the database. In this version, if there are too few resources available in the queue to send a message, the module will retry sending the message up to 20 times. It will also log a warning if the system resources are low enough to require retries. Finally, the README has been updated with instructions for tuning the message parameters in the Linux kernel to increase the message queue resources.
Nagios XI Agents for Solaris and AIX
If your environment includes Solaris or AIX systems, a solution is now available to ease monitoring of those system with Nagios XI. The Nagios XI NRPE agent provides a simple agent installer for the target system and a wizard that provides useful defaults when configuring Nagios XI to monitor the target system. Nagios XI agents for Solaris and AIX have been released. The Solaris agent has been tested on Solaris 10, both x86 and SPARC. The AIX agent has been tested on both AIX 5.3 and 6.1.
To use the Solaris agent, download the agent, agent installation instructions, and wizard. The same agent installer works for both SPARC and x86 systems.
To use the AIX agent, download the agent, agent installation instructions and wizard. The same agent installer works for both AIX 5.3 and AIX 6.1
An HP-UX agent is also in the works. An announcement will be made here where it is available.
Nagios Fusion 2012 Preview
Need a simpler solution for scaling Nagios? Distributed monitoring environments often contain several Nagios servers in order to cover multiple geographic or network locations, or sometimes just to scale large enough on a single network. Nagios Fusion 2012 is a central dashboard and data aggregation for all of your Nagios installations. Fusion 2012 will integrate seamlessly with Nagios XI and Nagios Core 3.x installs, and requires no additional configuration changes on any of your Nagios servers. Here’s a highlight of the current feature list:
- Unified authentication for all Nagios XI servers
- User-defined, customizable dashboards and menus
- Easily drill down to any Nagios server to find problems
- Fused Tactical Overview information
- Fused Health Summaries for Nagios servers
- Fused Alert Summary
- Fused Alert Histogram
- Fused Top Alert Producers
- Several new data visualizations
The power exists in Nagios Fusion to aggregate almost any information across multiple Nagios installs. The main question we’re looking at from here is: “What do users want to see in their central Nagios dashboard?” We’re interested in getting some user feedback for ideas on this project as well as some beta testers for the upcoming release. Here are some screenshots to give an idea as to what is to come.
Nagios Remote Data Sender Windows (NRDS_Win)
Nagios Remote Data Sender for Windows, enables passive monitoring over HTTP. Great for situation where Nagios can’t reach target Windows machines, but the Windows machines can reach Nagios.
Now available for download at Nagios Exchange:
exchange.nagios.org/directory/Addons/Passive-Checks/NRDS_win/details
NDOUtils 1.5.1 Available
A new release of NDOUtils (1.5.1) is now available from SourceForge. This version fixes a potential problem with the way the data is sent from Nagios Core module to the process that inserts data into the database.
Enjoy!