Queries on Nagios XI Capabilities

[riredondo]

hello everyone,

i have here some questions, hope you can help me find answer.

1. In terms of high availability, what is the utilization capability of mySQL to hold data for unlimited hosts? (in months, or in years time)
2. Is it possible to use MSSQL on different box to act as Nagios XI's database instead of mySQL?
3. What is the exact refresh rate of Nagios XI to reflect the current status of hosts and services on the features such as maps and alert cloud? (in seconds or in minutes)
4. Does Nagios supports the integration of SCOM?

thanks in advance.
rose

[riredondo]

follow up on this please... your advise will be highly appreciated. thanks.

[mguthrie]

1. In terms of high availability, what is the utilization capability of mySQL to hold data for unlimited hosts? (in months, or in years time)

This is more of a mysql question than a Nagios one, but the age of the historical information for hosts and services can be specified by the user. There's no real limit, it would just be a matter of disk space, and how hard you want to push the server for performance. The larger the DB tables get (for any database backend), the slower it will perform.

2. Is it possible to use MSSQL on different box to act as Nagios XI's database instead of mySQL?

No, XI can support mysql on a separate server, but not MSSQL.

3. What is the exact refresh rate of Nagios XI to reflect the current status of hosts and services on the features such as maps and alert cloud? (in seconds or in minutes)

Typically its about 30 seconds, but many of the dashlets can have custom refresh times by adjusting the settings in the Admin->Performance settings page.

[riredondo]

thanks for inputs, mguthrie.
how about my last question? regarding the integration of scom with nagios xi?

[mguthrie]

There are two ways you could push results from Nagios to your SCOM environment. The first would be to define an event handler for your hosts and services, and that would forward results each time there is a state change (from OK to CRITICAL, etc). The other method you could do, would be to define what is called an OCSP command and a OCHP command. This is a global command that can be called by any host or service every time check results are received. What these commands can do is simply push the check results up to SCOM for any hosts or services where "Obsess Over Host/Service" is enabled.

It looks like there are a few community solutions for SCOM integration, but they're a bit old.
http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Ad ... rk/details

http://www.mbaeker.de/tag/scom2nagios/

I don't know how outdated these solutions are, but if nothing else you could use them as a baseline for your own solution.

Here's the full doc on using OSCP commands. Normally these are used for distributed monitoring, but they would also work great for this application as well.
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/distributed.html
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/ ... hp_command
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/ ... sp_command

[riredondo]

mguthrie, thanks much.