Nagios Asset Discovery & Inventory

[wkstan]

In my organization, we're using Nagios XI to monitor all our Infrastructure equipment. We're currently exploring a tool to discover and inventories all our assets installed in our environment. We're currently exploring if Nagios have the capabilities or a plugin to perform such function as we do not want to introduce multiple tools in our environment. Has anyone in the forum implemented asset discovery and invertory using Nagios XI? Would you be able to share what components is require to enable the capability?

[rkennedy]

For the adding / managing assets part -- I don't know of many people using XI for this. It could be done, using the notes variable though. Your best bet is going to be two separate pieces of software, one for assets, and one for monitoring.

As for automatically adding in hosts / services, we have an auto discovery wizard which you can use to add different subnets in your environment, into Nagios. There is also an API, which can be used to automatically add new hosts / services in if you're using any kind of automation software for the asset management. It's pretty easy to integrate with, take a look at the HELP section in XI for more information about the API.

[WillemDH]

Hello,

I'm using it +- for asset mgmt. I'm using Reactor to gather system information and i'm putting the key / values on host object free variables.

This is the Reactor action to update a free variable => https://outsideit.net/naf-nagios-reconf ... variables/
The inventory script is not yet published, but is based on this script => https://outsideit.net/naf-windows-initiate-audit/

Grtz

[lmiltchev]

wkstan, did rkennedy and WillemDH answer your questions?