Nagios Support Forum

What is the best way to get the service description named the same as the interface name on cisco devices? I am using the built-in discovery features of Nagios XI and have tried both options. However, the options either give it a nondescript Number or it uses the Interface description rather than th...

That's what I needed to hear. I know you can do anything with Nagios but I wanted to know that it could be configured out of the box in the UI rather than manual config file tweaking. I'm trying to sell this as a replacement to Orion and it needs to be point and click 90% of the way. Last time I set...

I tried adding "services" to ping other addresses but they all use the hostname/IP of the host instead of letting me specify the IP. Network hosts like routers, switches, firewalls can have multiple IPs and I need to be able to detect circuits being down even if the physical link is up and...

The issue is it won't let me ping anything other than the host address. I need to issue several pings to different IPs for each host. Does this mean I need to use the plugin listed above or does this functionality exist out of the box?

I'm trying to create the service under the object but it uses HOSTNAME. Isn't that the Host object's name/IP not interface?

Can 1 host have multiple ping tests going to it and alerting on each interface that fails the ping independatnly? We currently use Solarwinds and this is not built-in. Just seeing if Nagios XI can do that.