PNP4Nagios with Nagios XI 2014R1.4

[jzimmerman]

I am looking to get PNP4Nagios working with Nagios XI or at least in coordination with Nagios XI without duplicating perfdata. I've only investigated briefly and it doesn't appear to be super straight forward - at least with what I currently know.

I know Nagios XI uses High Charts, but there is at least some components of PNP4Nagios in the underlying components.

Anyone successful in getting this to work in parrallel with High Charts? Either version of PNP4Nagios (0.4.x or 0.6.x) is what my goal is at this point.

My reasoning is that PNP4Nagios works nicely with Check_MK which I have installed with Nagios XI. I have several Nagios XI instances with Check_MK WATO in a distributed setup maintaining configurations with all of them with the help of in house puppet modules. So getting graphs visible on a single point in my setup without shipping data around between data centers requires getting PNP4Nagios to work with Nagios XI. The reason we just don't use Nagios Core is that XI has things we still want to use (multi stacked graphs, etc..) but Check_MK has become integral to our monitoring architecture and is honestly easier to manage/automate, and has flexible notifications.

So question is: Anyone using PNP4Nagios with the web interface with Nagios XI?

[WillemDH]

You managed to integrate check_mk and Nagios XI? Nice. Set up an OMD server a few weeks ago and I must say check_mk has indeed some big advantages. Their agent which automatically makes an inventory of the host is super easy.. And the default check interval of one minute is awesome too. (bit noisy in the beginning though on virtual hosts) Any tips on how to do this? Links to documentation?

Grtz

Willem

[lmiltchev]

Just FYI - upgrading pnp4nagios on the Nagios XI box will greak graphing. Keep this in mind.

[Box293]

break graphing

[jzimmerman]

Yeah. I broke graphing a couple of times trying to install PNP4Nagios 0.6 along side XI without disruption. Was easy enough to fix, but without duplicating data I'm not sure what options I have here.

Check_MK is very nice. I have OMD setup as the monitoring head with Check_MK (also trying to use thruk). I installed Check_MK from source on the Nagios XI servers and have maintained integration via symlinks into the static configs directory and puppet modules over the course of several upgrades. It's been working relatively well and has made a decent sized Nagios installation across several servers maintainable and performant.

There are some some significant quirks to live with as the two are very different approaches. We wanted to use Nagios Fusion as a monitoring head of sorts but it turns out it didn't do what I expected and Check_MK did what I wanted and more.

XI has decent (but not great) graphs and reports. Check_MK has awesome configuration and architecture. So for the most part OMD lacks good reporting. Nagios's is adequate. The graph explorer in Nagios XI is my favorite component I think.

I didn't find anything of significance about integrating Check_MK with XI on the internet so I just adapted. There are some significant quirks so it's not for everyone. The biggest quirk right now is getting graphs exposed gracefully in the single OMD website without shipping perfdata over a VPN tunnels to the monitoring head.

I'd like to get the PNP4Nagios components that already exist in Nagios XI (version 0.4) working to display the web interface so I can proxy those graphs to the omd installation, but not sure that's going to fly. I may have to incorporate Graphite instead.

[WillemDH]

Graph Explorer is also indeed my favourite component. Certainly the multistacked perf graph makes very useful combinations.

I'm using my OMD server to monitor the XI server and to monitor hosts with unstable connections, such as traffic boards who are connected with gprs simcards (and our mobile service centrum which is basically a bus riding through Ghent, also with an UMTS router..) and also QA and DEV servers. That way I can keep XI for my very critical hosts and the open service problems doesn't fill up with noisy alerts from these unstable hosts.

I'm gonna pass on the check_mk integration in XI.. , as I can't risk making the XI server unstable. I hope the XI support team can answer your question to make the PNP4Nagios display the web interface, as I have not enough knowledge about that.

Grtz

Willem

[abrist]

So question is: Anyone using PNP4Nagios with the web interface with Nagios XI?

PNP4Nagios ships with XI. You can enable the pnp graphs (instead of the highcharts ones) from admin --> manage system config --> uncheck "Use Highcharts for Perfdata Graphs".