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Introduction & Agenda
• This presentation will cover how to use some of the more advanced and lesser known features of Nagios XI
• Bulk management, tools, auto-discovery, advanced reporting
• How to build a useful dashboard and deploy it to your users
• Best practices for new or old XI environments
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About Myself
• Support Tech at Nagios Enterprises• - Forums, Tickets, Phone Support• - “Good Cop”• A smidge of development• - Bug fixes, small features, random
things that nobody sees• 2 ½ Years
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Advanced features, why should I care if everything is okay?
To increase your flexibility– Greatly cut down on time spent configuring, and get
you back to the monitoring aspect.
– Easy access to some specific visualizations and reports that can really help both the new and veteran XI user.
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Host/Service Groups, and Configurations
• Group alike systems to offer greater visibility and ease of configuration.
• Use of parent-child relationships
• Common naming scheme for quick acquisition
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Deadpool
• Auto-decommissioning, handle swaths of old configurations that will note be used again (cloud monitoring)
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Birdseye
• Streaming alerts, consistent status updates
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Nagvis• Visualize your environment on virtually any image, jpg,
png, etc. Maintain status updates while getting a better look at the real impact.
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Nagvis
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Nagvis
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Recurring Downtime• Schedule downtime for systems that consistently require it
the same time, every time. Handle both hosts and services for administrative downtime.
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Recurring Downtime
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Hypermap, and Parent Child Relationships
• View the impact of down hosts in your environment, see and watch the effects of systems going down as they relate to others you monitor in your environment.
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Scheduled/Local Backups
• Store your XI system backups off-site, save as local, or offload as FTP/SSH.
• Ensure that if your XI system goes down, you still have access to the files required to mirror it back up.
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Scheduled/Local Backups
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Snapshot Archive• Archive previous snapshots such as milestone
configuration changes, etc. Archive, re-name, download, view output.
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SSH Terminal• Access the XI server via SSH directly from your browser
– Browser Extension, Ajaxterm package
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System Profile
• View top logs, and metrics that the support team uses for troubleshooting daily
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System Profile
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XI Backend API• Harness the XI Backend API for internal/external tools and
reporting
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XI Backend API
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Deploy Dashboards• Create default Dashboards, sync them, then deploy them
to your users
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Auto-Discovery• Nmap Scan, cataloguing system, OS detection.
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Auto-Discovery
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CCM Basics• Web configuration, no more flat files.
• Bulk Modifications/Cloning tools
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Write Config Files Tool• Write, Verify, Restart, Delete. Quick way to determine the
cause of configuration errors, deletion of ghosts.
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Write Config Files Tool
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Escalations• Handle multi-tiered notification requirements, alert those
who need to know, and move on to the next set.
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Escalations
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Exclusion Periods• Exclude hosts/services from notifying/checking during
specific time period exclusion times.
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Bulk Host Clone• Clone hosts to new addresses, and names, move their services
over as well.
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Bulk Modifications Tool• Bulk modify configuration information for multiple
hosts/services at the same time.
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Bulk Modifications Tool
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Config Importing
• Easy way to migrate over from Core, or try XI out with your current Core Configuration setup.
• Prep script alters configuration files, so make sure to back-up!
• Alternative is static configuration files
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Multi-Stacked Performance Graphs
• Monitor/stack multiple metrics from different hosts together against eachother, (bandwidth, drive usage, printer toner level).
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Performance Settings/Tuning• Tweak DB queires, refresh rates, ajax calls, and subsystem
options for enhanced performance, or reporting.
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Performance Settings/Tuning
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Performance Settings/Tuning
• Guide to DB / Performance Tuning– http://
assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagiosxi/docs/Nagios-XI-Database-Optimization.pdf
– The most important settings that can affect the overall performance of your Nagios XI server relate to the NDOUtils database. This is the main database that is used to store current and historical monitoring information.Recommended values for various NDOUtils database settings are provided in the table below.
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Business Process Intelligence
• Break the chain between Host/Service/Group objects. Display and alert for your systems as they are actually set up in the real world.
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Business Process Intelligence
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Business Process Intelligence
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Admin & Advanced XI Guide
• Highly suggested, shows examples and setups for many of the features shown today.
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Questions
Any questions?