Nagios XI Reporting and Integration

[wadmin]

Hi fellow Nagios lovers,

We are currently in the midst of proposing Nagios XI to one of our potential customers and they are looking for answers to their concerns urgently. We have been directed by one of your sales team member to post this here.

Here are the questions:

1. Can the metrics in the graphs/reports generated on Nagios XI be customized? For instance, we would like to have memory usage shown in percentage (%) rather than in MB. Is there anyway we could customize that?

2. Can Nagios XI integrate with other monitoring systems such as SCOM, OpManager and Compuware APM? We would like to see statuses of service checks from them on Nagios GUI. We are aware that there are plug-ins available for SCOM, but they are no longer supported by their respective authors. Is there anything that you could recommend for this?

Your advice is greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

[Box293]

Can the metrics in the graphs/reports generated on Nagios XI be customized? For instance, we would like to have memory usage shown in percentage (%) rather than in MB. Is there anyway we could customize that?

From what I understand it's pulling data from the RRD files, which is stored in the RRD file as a MB in this case. The plugin you are using might allow you to output the data as a % instead, if that is not the case then you can write a custom plugin to get the data into the RRD files the way you want. Creating a report that would display % is not always possible as the data in the RRD may not have the MB value for the total amount, you could not determine a percentage without that.

Can Nagios XI integrate with other monitoring systems such as SCOM, OpManager and Compuware APM? We would like to see statuses of service checks from them on Nagios GUI. We are aware that there are plug-ins available for SCOM, but they are no longer supported by their respective authors. Is there anything that you could recommend for this?

Nagios XI can be configured to receive SNMP traps which would allow you to see the last status received from the sending system. This is one way to make it happen.

[wadmin]

Hi Box293,

Thanks for the prompt reply.

Can the metrics in the graphs/reports generated on Nagios XI be customized? For instance, we would like to have memory usage shown in percentage (%) rather than in MB. Is there anyway we could customize that?

From what I understand it's pulling data from the RRD files, which is stored in the RRD file as a MB in this case. The plugin you are using might allow you to output the data as a % instead, if that is not the case then you can write a custom plugin to get the data into the RRD files the way you want. Creating a report that would display % is not always possible as the data in the RRD may not have the MB value for the total amount, you could not determine a percentage without that.

We are trying to see if we can configure pnp4nagios to display values from the data stored in the XML file. Meanwhile, do you have any recommendations on the plug-ins that could be used here based on your experience? It would be great if there are references that we could use.

Can Nagios XI integrate with other monitoring systems such as SCOM, OpManager and Compuware APM? We would like to see statuses of service checks from them on Nagios GUI. We are aware that there are plug-ins available for SCOM, but they are no longer supported by their respective authors. Is there anything that you could recommend for this?

Nagios XI can be configured to receive SNMP traps which would allow you to see the last status received from the sending system. This is one way to make it happen.

By this, do you mean that we should configure the sending systems to interact directly with Nagios instead of the above-listed monitoring systems? The requirement is that they would like to keep their existing monitoring systems while using the least effort to achieve that.

[Box293]

By this, do you mean that we should configure the sending systems to interact directly with Nagios instead of the above-listed monitoring systems? The requirement is that they would like to keep their existing monitoring systems while using the least effort to achieve that.

What I meant was that you should be able to configure SCOM, OpManager and Compuware APM to send SNMP traps to Nagios XI.

We are trying to see if we can configure pnp4nagios to display values from the data stored in the XML file.

You can create pnp4nagios templates that can turn the MB values into percentages IF you had the total value as well as the memory usage value. Here is a talk I did on performance data:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqA2KcpUFg4
http://www.slideshare.net/nagiosinc/tro ... and-graphs

And here is info on the DEF maths used with PNP/rrdtool:
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/luc ... ial.1.html

Meanwhile, do you have any recommendations on the plug-ins that could be used here based on your experience? It would be great if there are references that we could use.

What systems are you monitoring? Windows? Linux?

[wadmin]

By this, do you mean that we should configure the sending systems to interact directly with Nagios instead of the above-listed monitoring systems? The requirement is that they would like to keep their existing monitoring systems while using the least effort to achieve that.

What I meant was that you should be able to configure SCOM, OpManager and Compuware APM to send SNMP traps to Nagios XI.

We are trying to see if we can configure pnp4nagios to display values from the data stored in the XML file.

You can create pnp4nagios templates that can turn the MB values into percentages IF you had the total value as well as the memory usage value. Here is a talk I did on performance data:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqA2KcpUFg4
http://www.slideshare.net/nagiosinc/tro ... and-graphs

And here is info on the DEF maths used with PNP/rrdtool:
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/luc ... ial.1.html

Meanwhile, do you have any recommendations on the plug-ins that could be used here based on your experience? It would be great if there are references that we could use.

What systems are you monitoring? Windows? Linux?

Thanks for the great insight! We will try that out.

We are monitoring servers running on Linux, Windows, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX.

[Box293]

Too easy.

Let us know if you need any more information.