Nagios XI remote probe

[errevi]

Hi all,

I'm trying a way to monitor remote hosts, in the following scenario.

Site A (my company LAN, where Nagios XI is installed)
Site B (my customer LAN, where we can not install nagios xi servers)
Inside Site B we need to monitor different type of hosts, we have Windows machines, EMC storage like Unity, EMC vplex, Oracle machines, esxi hosts and a https webpage.

Between Site A and B there is a VPN, but we would like to not use that VPN, because of possible IP address overlaps.

For that reason I'm here to ask if exists a kind of "remote probes" that we can install in Site B.

Other ways we found include: remote nagios xi installed in customer environment, or ncpa agents installed on single hosts, wmi user/agent configuration on single VMs

I'm open to any suggestions.

Kind regards
Nicolò

[tmcdonald]

I see you have opened an email ticket for this as well, so I will be closing this thread and we will continue via email. In the future please only open one or the other so we can focus our efforts.

Thanks!

[npolovenko]

Hello, @errevi. That's right, you can install Nagios XI on a client's network and have it send the results to another XI on your company's site via outbound transfer. Take a look here: https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ith_XI.pdf
The results will be sent from one network to another using http/https or tcp.

ncpa agents installed on single hosts

You could do that as well. But depending on how many computers/servers the client company has this may be a lengthy process. I'd say if there are hundreds of servers I'd rather install XI locally and then and have all checks flow through XI first. You will spend much less time on the configuration. But if there are 3 or 4 computers, yes, why not.

And if you don't have a spare license for XI you could install Nagios Core on your client's network instead of XI.

Finally, another way to go about this would be with Mod Gearman. You would spin up a Linux machine on the client's network, install ModGearman worker on that server, and have it execute checks and communicate with XI on the site A via TCP.