Nagios Core Feedback

[BernieceReynolds]

Just tested Nagios Core (not Nagios XI/CSP) as OSS monitoring solution. I knew the name, but never had any exprience with it but thought it was popular. We are a small IT department, it feels that Nagios Core with a bunch of add-on and plugins seems difficult to maintain (update/upgrade). In future we may need support, but it's not required right now. Here are my downsides:
- Simply adding a host needs to edit a cfg file, an entry-level technician may not have access to Nagios Core server. How do you solve this? is there an add-on?
- UI seems very outdated, Do you consume Nagios Core as other flavour such OMD Labs? or simply set up 3rd party UI?
Still, it is simple and seems that it can be extended very easily with custom scripts. A lot of community scripts seem oudated, as people phased to another solution in past years.

[gregbeyer]

I think you want to post these questions in the "Open Source Nagios Projects" forum where Core is supported/discussed. This is the forum for the commercial XI product.

[bbahn]

Hello @BernieceReynolds,

It sounds like the product you want would be Nagios XI. It has a much nicer interface if you switch to Neptune theme and wizards allow you to easily set up monitoring with little knowledge.

[danisa]

NagiosQL – Web-based configuration tool for Nagios Core.
Allows role-based access.
Technicians can add/remove hosts and services without editing .cfg files
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