Nagios XI Features Inquiry

[christianbeltran]

Hi Guys,

Good day!

I'm working on a POC for this product and I would want to know if the following features are possible using Nagios. What APIs or plugins we could use?

1.Must be able to provide overview and details of workstation hardware (CPU, Memory, Disk Drives) and software (OS, apps, etc)
2. Must be able to provide software and hardware inventory
3. Must be able to provide monitoring of activities such as work time activity, visited websites, bandwidth utilized, applications used, network traffic generated
4. Must be able to provide customized alerts and notifications on instances of new installation of hardware and software, deletion of SW, software updates, etc.., including critical issues on network devices such as routers, switches, servers, etc.
5. Must be able to provide essential monitoring of critical hosts and applications on remote machines via heartbeat
6. Must be able to provide user and applications

Your response is highly appreciated.

Thank you very much!

Regards,
Christian Beltran

[dwhitfield]

I would suggest opening separate threads for each of these, just because each may require several questions from us and some back-and-forth to get full, complete, accurate answers. Also, I would advise contacting [email protected] to set up a demo and potentially a quickstart.

1. This seems pretty doable, but the tools you would use would change depending on the OS.
2. How deep are you wanting to go on the software stack? What OSes are we talking about?
3. This largely sounds like a job for Nagios Log Server. Have you looked at that at all? I'm not saying XI could do it, but visited websites and applications used definitely sounds like looking at log files to me.
4. This sounds like you are asking for a couple of different things. A) Knowing when there are no instances on the network and B) monitoring issues. Is that correct?
5. Certainly we monitor remote machines, hosts, and applications. Could you explain what you mean by heartbeat?
6. I really don't know what you mean here. Do you mean you want to know all the users and all the applications of every device in your infrastructure?

[dwasswa]

Hi @christianbeltran,

Please follow this link Nagios Support Knowledge Base. It conatins kb articles,guides,videos on everything you need to learn and use Nagios XI.

All you need to do is to search what you wish to know about Nagios XI and links to the information you want will be provided.

You can also follow this link Nagios live webinars for free live webinars.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

[christianbeltran]

Hi Guys,

Thank you for your response, I really appreciate it.

@dwhitfield,

We had contacted nagios sales already.

For Item 1. What tools could we used? We are looking for the details only somewhat like reporting and not monitoring.
2. Alteast for windows and linux.
3. Havent checked it with Nagios Logs Server. I think we need to know what is the exact log that shows visited pages by each user.
4. Yes, and we want know if possible to alert the user if there are changed on the hardware e.g. A new memory stick is added, the processor has changed on a user or a hard drive has been removed.
5. Disregard item 5.
6. Yes you are correct

@dwasswa,
Actually we had searched the kb for a couple of times but we found none.

Thanks for the assistance guys. Im hoping to have nagios fit on those requirements.

[scottwilkerson]

christianbeltran,

I'm going to be honest, while Nagios XI is going to be your best bet for monitoring the physical hardware and services/processes on the servers on your network, as well as keeping a log of all the system and event logs, it doesn't do inventory tracking and people monitoring.

With many of your actual questions being about inventory tracking and the tracking/monitoring of people, I think you would be best served finding a several different packages that is designed to perform those duties, and use Nagios XI for the purpose it was intended to do, monitor your servers and network and let you know if something goes outside of parameters.