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After inheriting an AWS infrastructure, I must put it into XI. An account has been created and granted access for monitoring through cloudwatch (and only this access). What is the recommended path to begin monitoring? I already tried through the AWS wizard for EC2, but can't get "available inst...

Yes, you can mark it as resolved!

Thanks for the confirmation Benjamin, I hope this thread helped people with the same problem (if any)

Thank you for your time Benjamin. You 've been most helpful. So a recommended path for creating a new user could be this: 1. I create a user account from "Admin", importing it from Active Directory and enabling notifications on it. This way, the user account will be created based on the xi...

Hi, I added the commands to the xi_contact_generic (which seems to be the default contact template for all users created in Nagios XI), after the "xi_host_notification_handler" which was already there. There are SMS notifications now, although there is not much control over them. When an a...

I haven't had much success by going this way. It seems to me that in order to use the SMS functionality built into Nagios XI, I will have to use a mail-to-SMS service. An SMS by API solution would be much much cheaper for me, but it is not straightforward to setup and use. Let me explain: These are ...

Thanks, I will try and report back!

Hello, Unfortunately in Greece no providers will go for the standard SMS notification mechanism of Nagios XI, that is sending an email of type xxxxxxxxxx@provider.com. Instead they give us an API we should call by means of a command like: curl -G --silent --output /dev/null https://corpsms-api.xxxxx...

Thanks for the prompt reply!

I put the %lastalertlog% and it returned the whole event in the mail. I hoped that I could include only the "message" field of the event, but it's OK.

Hello, I am currently testing a new Nagios Log server installation. I have created a query based on windows event logs and an alert on it. The alert comes as follows: DHCP Scope Full returned with a CRITICAL state at Wed, 22 May 2019 17:11:44 +0300 The alert was processed with the following threshol...