what is nagios xi and how is it different from nagios core
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• Hybrid enterprise monitoring tool
• Award wining and world’s no. 1
• XI is everything Nagios plus more..
• XI is complete WebUI GUI
• XI is personalization & customizable
• XI is programmable
Introduction
• Everything web• Configuration
• Dashboards
• Customization
• Etc..
• Wizards driven• Guided step by step
• Make your own wizards
• Extremely cool UIs• Built-in performance graphs
• Dashboards, Reports, Views, Management Web
• Database backend• No more flat file based
• Totally robust, exportable and customizable
• Multi-tenant• One server, multiple users
• Nagvis ready• Setup any type of graphical meaningful dashboard, straight off the bat
• Advance dashboard• Personalized, customized and robust dashboards
• In addition to Nagios, here are some of the highlights of XI
• Available in all versions of XI
• Can be further customized to each organizational need
Features
• Dashboards• Provide information to respective personnel
exactly what matters to them
• Views• Like dashboards, except it loads multiple
pages dynamically
• Multi tenant• Breakout large teams through a single setup
with smaller management groups
• Create and manage individualized level of views and dashboards
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IT core
netIT servers
• Wizards• Create checks in minutes!
• Build your own (BYO Wizards)
• Wizard list out of the box• DHCP, DNS (with query), Radius• Email• Environmental monitoring• Exchange• Network generic devices• LDAP• Linux, Windows, Mac, Solaris• SMTP servers• MySQL, MSSQL, Postgres, Oracle• SNMP – Trap, Walk• Switches/Routers/Firewalls• Raw TCP/IP port• Watchguard• URLs, Web Transaction• VMWare• Printers• Custom ones..(e.g. Wizard for Antivirus checks)
• Auto discovery• Add hosts in one go
• Check what OS too..
• Schedule adding of new host automatically
• Configuration Manager• Get down to details and customize more…
• Done through WebUI
• Import and export functions
• Bulk operations
• Nagvis• Visual Nagios
• Monitor what you want, how you want it
• Now! With dynamic charts
• Operations Map• Point in time critical information
• Built to mount on walls for easy viewing
• Dynamic updates
• Customizable with similar concept
• User manager• Create multiple users
• Create different permission for them
• Can be used as contact for notification
• Built-in reports• Executive summaries
• Availability
• State history
• Top Alert producers
• Notification reports
• Raw event logs
• Nagios bandwidth usage
• Capacity planning tool
• Reports can be printed, exported and scheduled to run on a periodic basis
• Data visualization• Heatmaps, Cloud, Timeline and Replays
• Legacy reports (NagiosCore)
• Everything Nagios• What you can do with Nagios you can do it
with XI• Monitor just about anything• A little under 2500 readily available free
plugins
• It can work together with an existing Nagiosinstallation
• You can also import config files • You can distribute Nagios to off load XI
• Manage centrally multiple servers
• Important when you do tens of thousands of host and services monitoring?
• Scale also based on geographical locations and/or distribute load
Scalability
• Centralization• Centrally view and manage multiple Nagios
servers (including Nagios Core)
• Decentralized management if required
• Unlimited scalability
• Connects via HTTP(s)
• Authentication passthru
• Runs on existing servers or separately
• Load distribution• Use single NagiosXI/NagiosCore backend
• Check thousands of hosts
• Check tens of thousands of services
• Scale as many servers as you like
• Distribute across WAN links
nagios has just gotten better…
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