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sathiya002
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How to get started?

Post by sathiya002 »

Hi Guys,

I am new to Nagios monitoring system.Please send me any videos or links for configuring from scratch .

What is the difference between the nagios core and nagios XI ?

Which version better for an organization.
rkennedy
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Joined: Mon Oct 05, 2015 11:45 am

Re: How to get started?

Post by rkennedy »

You can download either download a VMWare image (OVA) or run through the 'Source Install' to get it going. Nagios will install on CentOS6/7 or RHEL6/7. You can find more info here https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ctions.pdf - and the download link is below.
https://www.nagios.com/downloads/nagios-xi/

The videos on the page above are pretty good intros as well.

We have plenty of tutorials available for installing XI here -
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... AC46F099DE
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... 2989896F1E
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... 1107C43F6A

The other option is Nagios Core, which is our opensource product. https://www.nagios.org/projects/nagios-core/ - we have installation instructions available here - https://support.nagios.com/kb/article.p ... ategory=58

It is powerful, but requires a bit more 'manual' setting up. Nagios XI still runs this under the hood, but provides an easier way to utilize the Nagios interface.
Former Nagios Employee
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