Simple information for businesses on the features and functionalities of Nagios XI with focus on comparing it with Nagios Core.

1. sanjay@intuit.my | v1.1
Nagios XI
nagios has just gotten better…

2. Introduction
• 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

3. • 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

4. • 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

5. Features
• 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

6. • Dashboards
• Provide information to respective personnel
exactly what matters to them

7. • Views
• Like dashboards, except it loads multiple
pages dynamically

8. • Multi tenant
• Breakout large teams through a single setup Helpdesk Finance
with smaller management groups
• Create and manage individualized level of
views and dashboards
IT core
IT servers
net

9. • Wizards
• Create checks in minutes!
• Build your own (BYO Wizards)

10. • 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)

11. • Auto discovery
• Add hosts in one go
• Check what OS too..
• Schedule adding of new host automatically

12. • Configuration Manager
• Get down to details and customize more…
• Done through WebUI
• Import and export functions
• Bulk operations

13. • Nagvis
• Visual Nagios
• Monitor what you want, how you want it
• Now! With dynamic charts

14. • Operations Map
• Point in time critical information
• Built to mount on walls for easy viewing
• Dynamic updates
• Customizable with similar concept

15. • User manager
• Create multiple users
• Create different permission for them
• Can be used as contact for notification

16. • 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 (Nagios
Core)

17. • 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 Nagios
installation
• You can also import config files
• You can distribute Nagios to off load XI

18. Scalability
• 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

19. • 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

20. • 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

21. Nagios XI
nagios has just gotten better…
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