Monitoring Microsoft Azure from Nagiosxi

[mohan23]

I want to monitor Microsoft Azure from Nagiosxi . Some one please let me know what are the preconfigurations that I need to do from nagiosxi box and on from Microsoft Azure . Also What metrics can Nagiosxi can monitor for Microsoft Azure.

[lmiltchev]

We do have a wizard for monitoring MS Azure Cloud VMs that ships with Nagios XI.

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In order for the wizard to work, you will have to install the NCPA agent on the client machine.

https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/ncp ... g-NCPA.pdf

The metrics that will be monitored would depend on what type of server you are monitoring - Windows, Linux, etc.

[mohan23]

Thank you for the information. But I don't see this Microsoft Azure Wizard on our nagiosxi . Can you please let me know how to get this wizard.

[lmiltchev]

What is the version of Nagios XI that you are currently running? The Microsoft Azure Cloud wizard is included in the latest release of Nagios XI (5.5.3). I would recommend that you upgrade your Nagios XI instance to the latest.

[mohan23]

Yeah.. our nagios xi version older one. Definitely we need to get upgraded to latest version. B/w can you let me know what parameters can be monitored using this wizard for VM's.

[lmiltchev]

What kind of VMs - Linux, Windows, etc.? We monitor command metrics, e.g. CPU, Memory, Disk Usage, processes/services. With NCPA, you could call a custom script that runs on the client and sends back results to Nagios XI. So, there is lots of flexibility.

[mohan23]

Now we are windows VM's and in future we may get Linux as well.

Where should I download NCPA package , so that I can install NCPA on on of our test/dtq VM and check the feasibility.

[lmiltchev]

Download link: https://www.nagios.org/ncpa/#downloads

FYI, the link is provided in Step 1 of the wizard, along with an installation guide.

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[mohan23]

I have one more query. What is the TOKEN here exactly . Is this like SNMP needs to be enabled on that particular VM and TOKEN is nothing but community string?

[lmiltchev]

No, you don't need to enable SNMP. Token is the community string (password) that you would like to use with the NCPA agent - it has nothing to do with SNMP. The "default" value is "mytoken".

Example:

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community_string = mytoken

You can change it to whatever you want and restart the agent, so that changes can take effect.

For more details, review our NCPA documentation here:
https://www.nagios.org/ncpa/help.php