Monitor the End of the World (or any other event of your choosing) with...
Nagios XI is extremely flexible, perhaps more flexible than most people realize! To showcase the flexibility of Nagios XI, President and Founder of Nagios – Ethan Galstad, has developed the plugin...
View ArticleFREAK Vulnerability Tester
With yesterday’s disclosure of the new SSL/TLS vulnerability dubbed FREAK, we at Nagios decided to take some action to assist the community with a quick and easy tester to help determine if a server is...
View ArticleMonitoring Weblogic Metrics with Nagios XI
Weblogic is a popular Java-based application server that acts as a middleware between the application and the Java environment. It provides a framework for developing traits such as reliability...
View ArticleMonitoring Apache Cassandra Database Nodes with Nagios XI
As cloud services grow in popularity, so do the networks that provide those cloud services. Few webserver-based distributed databases are as easy to install and configure as Apache Cassandra. Apache...
View ArticleHeartbleed: One Bug to Rule Them All
If you’ve missed the news in the last few days, OpenSSL has been found to contain a rather large issue in it’s implementation of TLSv1.1 and TLS1.2 for versions 1.0.1 through 1.0.1f and 1.0.2-beta....
View ArticleMonitoring Gas Prices Using Capacity Planning in Nagios XI
Nagios XI is the most powerful IT infrastructure monitoring solution on the market. You can use it to monitor virtually anything. Although Nagios XI is typically meant for more “serious” work, you...
View ArticleNew Microsoft Exchange Server Monitoring Wizard!
We’ve had a lot of folks ask about Nagios’ capability of monitoring Microsoft Exchange servers. There are a number of plugins that have been capable of doing so for a while now, but our customers...
View ArticleMonitoring Linux/Unix Machines Using SSH or NRPE
We’ve had a number of customer requests for new Nagios XI wizards that make it easy to monitor Linux/Unix machines either by SSH (using check_by_ssh) or NRPE. This is often useful in environments where...
View ArticleDocumentation: Writing Custom Wizards
We’ve had some requests in past months about developer documentation for writing custom Configuration Wizards for Nagios XI. Many admins have a large amount of devices of a specific type that they...
View ArticleCheck for XI updates with a plugin
Nagios XI has always had the ability to let you know when updates to the software are available, displaying a message under the Admin area that looks like this: This is great for just checking up on...
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