ASSIGNMENT-9

AIM: To Understand Continuous monitoring and Installation and configuration of

Nagios on Linux Machine.
LO MAPPED: LO1, LO5
THEORY:
Nagios XI-
Nagios XI provides a monitoring, alerting, graphing, and reporting platform for your
entire infrastructure, including servers, operating systems, applications, network
devices, websites, hypervisors, cloud servers, and much more. Thousands of
community plugins and the ability to write your own custom plugins enable you to
monitor virtually anything.

● The Nagios Core 4 engine provides the powerful, flexible foundation, which
Nagios XI makes faster and easier to leverage than ever before.
● Dashboards empower you to create custom visualizations for an at-a-glance
view of the data most important to you.
● Alerts can be sent vial email or text, in addition to the ability to send an SNMP
trap or execute a custom script when problems are found.
● Reports and Graphs enable you to leverage the performance and state
history data Nagios XI collects, and can be exported and shared. Reports such
as Capacity Planning empower you to project future usage based on
historical performance.
● Multi-tenancy so that each user accessing the system has unique visibility
and capabilities. Determine what each user can see and do quickly and easily,
with the ability to access XI via local authentication or AD/LDAP credentials.
● Simplified configuration using either the 60+ step-by-step wizards for
common items, or the advanced Core Config Manager GUI.
● Extendable architecture including a built-in REST API and the ability to
develop your own wizards and components.
● Bulk options for initial configuration and for making sweeping granular
adjustments to your monitored objects afterward.
Benefits-
Comprehensive IT Infrastructure Monitoring
 Provides monitoring of all mission-critical infrastructure components
including applications, services, operating systems, network protocols,
systems metrics, and network infrastructure. Hundreds of third-party
addons provide for monitoring of virtually all in-house applications,
services, and systems.
 Performance:
The powerful Nagios Core 4 monitoring engine provides users with the
highest degree of monitoring server performance. High-efficiency worker
processes allow for nearly limitless scalability and monitoring
effectiveness.
 Provides a central view of your entire IT operations network and business
processes. Powerful dashboards provide at-a-glance access to powerful
monitoring information and third-party data. Views provide users with
quick access to the information they find most useful.
 Proactive Planning & Awareness
 Automated, integrated trending and capacity planning graphs allow
organizations to plan for infrastructure upgrades before outdated
systems catch them by surprise. Alerts are sent to IT staff, business
stakeholders, and end-users via email or mobile text messages, providing
them with outage details so they can start resolving issues immediately.
 Customizability:
A powerful GUI provides for customization of layout, design, and
preferences on a per-user basis, giving your customers and team
members the flexibility they want.
 Ease of Use:
 Integrated web-based configuration interface lets admins hand out
control of managing monitoring configuration, system settings, and more
to end-users and team members easily. Configuration wizards guide users
through the process of monitoring new devices, services, and applications
– all without having to understand complex monitoring concepts.
 Multi-Tenant Capabilities:
Multi-user access to web interface allows stakeholders to view relevant
infrastructure status. User-specific views ensure clients only see the
infrastructure components they’re authorized for. Advanced user
management simplifies administration by allowing you to manage user
accounts easily.
 Provision new user accounts with a few clicks and users automatically
receive an email with their login credentials.
 Extendable Architecture:
Multiple APIs provide for simple integration with in-house and third-party
applications. Thousands of community-developed addons extend
monitoring and native alerting functionality. Custom interface and addon
developments are available to tailor Nagios XI to meet your organization’s
exact needs.

Nagios Architecture:
Nagios Architecture
Nagios is a client-server architecture. Usually, on a network, a Nagios server is
running on a
host, and plugins are running on all the remote hosts which should be monitored.
1. The scheduler is a component of server part of Nagios. It sends a signal to
execute the
plugins at the remote host.
2. The plugin gets the status from the remote host
3. The plugin sends the data to the process scheduler
4. The process scheduler updates the GUI and notifications are sent to admins

OUTPUT:
web interface

Click on Host Groups

Click on localhost

We can click on a particular entry to view more details about it. For example, here
is the “Swap Usage” information page for the current node. We can also issue a
number of service commands from the right, such as disabling the check.

Reschedule downtime of ping service:

Trends in this host:

Commenting on ping service

Histogram of local host:

Summary report of localhost

CONCLUSION:
In conclusion, delving into Nagios XI provides a comprehensive understanding of its
robust capabilities in monitoring and managing IT infrastructure. Its user-friendly
interface and automation features streamline monitoring tasks, enhancing
efficiency. Embracing Nagios XI empowers organizations with proactive monitoring,
improved reliability, and valuable insights into their systems' health, leading to
heightened operational performance.