[BEGINNER] General questions

[adrienf]

Hello all,

I am not an actual Network Administration, however I have the mission to understand if Nagios XI would respond to our requirements and what competences are required to maintain a system like this.

I hope someone could help me to see more clearly in this. (And I am not English, sorry if I am not clear enough).
I don't need technical answers (which is the only thing I can find on internet), more general answers to make me undestand. (I feel I am already anoying).


Well, our requirements are to find a solution to monitor and eventually take actions (sometimes by itself) according to some rules.
We would need to monitor things like (All in Windows systems) :

- Computers or servers (disk space, cpu, if a file exists, maybe check the content of a file) (Vitual machines too)
- Windows Services (and to be able to restart it)
- Web Services
- Watch MSMQ, check its size
- Server Biztalk
- MQSeries
- and check Micorosft SQL Server, and even to be able to check the content of DataTables...

What I have read that we could find plug-in and addons on internet to do all of that. (Or it may be included somehow ?)

My Questions are :

- Is NAgios XI full Windows compatible ? We can install a windows version of it ? or do we need Unix/linux ?

- What will we need to do ourself ? Are all addons or plugin already created ? I have read too that we may have to develop SNMP queries.. But I didn't get why... Is it not just about scripts ? by the way, could we imagine to develop all our scripts in VBScripts ?

- As we have very different needs, what about the web interface ? Do we need to develop ourselves somes interface ? Or is it created to show anything without needing to develop php interface ?

- For the web interface... I have read that it is running with Apache... When it is installed, would we need competences to maintain it, or is it mostly stable with nothing to do ?

Thank you very much for any answer.

[hsmith]

Hello all,

I am not an actual Network Administration, however I have the mission to understand if Nagios XI would respond to our requirements and what competences are required to maintain a system like this.

I hope someone could help me to see more clearly in this. (And I am not English, sorry if I am not clear enough).
I don't need technical answers (which is the only thing I can find on internet), more general answers to make me undestand. (I feel I am already anoying).


Well, our requirements are to find a solution to monitor and eventually take actions (sometimes by itself) according to some rules.
We would need to monitor things like (All in Windows systems) :

- Computers or servers (disk space, cpu, if a file exists, maybe check the content of a file) (Vitual machines too)
- Windows Services (and to be able to restart it)
- Web Services
- Watch MSMQ, check its size
- Server Biztalk
- MQSeries
- and check Micorosft SQL Server, and even to be able to check the content of DataTables...

What I have read that we could find plug-in and addons on internet to do all of that. (Or it may be included somehow ?)

My Questions are :

- Is NAgios XI full Windows compatible ? We can install a windows version of it ? or do we need Unix/linux ?

- What will we need to do ourself ? Are all addons or plugin already created ? I have read too that we may have to develop SNMP queries.. But I didn't get why... Is it not just about scripts ? by the way, could we imagine to develop all our scripts in VBScripts ?

- As we have very different needs, what about the web interface ? Do we need to develop ourselves somes interface ? Or is it created to show anything without needing to develop php interface ?

- For the web interface... I have read that it is running with Apache... When it is installed, would we need competences to maintain it, or is it mostly stable with nothing to do ?

Thank you very much for any answer.

- Is NAgios XI full Windows compatible ? We can install a windows version of it ? or do we need Unix/linux ?

Nagios only runs inside of a Linux OS. It can monitor various Windows devices, but it needs to run on Linux.

- What will we need to do ourself ? Are all addons or plugin already created ? I have read too that we may have to develop SNMP queries.. But I didn't get why... Is it not just about scripts ? by the way, could we imagine to develop all our scripts in VBScripts ?

There are plugins for A LOT of stuff created already. Chances are you could find one to do most if not all things that you are looking for. Here is a great place to explore and see if plugins already exist for what you are looking to do. If you need a custom plugin made, but don't have the developer to do so, you can contact [email protected] for inquiries about custom plugins.

- As we have very different needs, what about the web interface ? Do we need to develop ourselves somes interface ? Or is it created to show anything without needing to develop php interface ?

You will not need to do any development with the interface. XI has a great interface, and I can't imagine anything you would need to develop yourself.

- For the web interface... I have read that it is running with Apache... When it is installed, would we need competences to maintain it, or is it mostly stable with nothing to do ?

You should not have to touch Apache, especially if you download one of our prebuilt machines. The only time I could see this being a real issue is if you are trying to install on an OS that XI was not originally wrote to run on.

If you have more questions, please feel free to post or contact [email protected]