possible replacement for OM

[alligator]

Greetings Folks

I am investigating the possible replacement of HP Operations Manager with Nagios XI. I have been watching the tutorials and reading what I can however sometimes it's best to get directly from the horses mouth so to speak.

First would be are there people that have migrated from HPOM to Nxi ? Or is it more the other way around ?

There is one aspect that we enjoy with HPOM that I have failed to see in my research of Nxi and that is the ability to associate instructions or runbooks to various alerts/incidents. Have I missed that or is that not available at this time ?

Also if we kept a smaller footprint of HPOM and wanted to feed it alerts/incidents from Nxi, is that implemented already ?

Thanks for listening.

[slansing]

Nagios XI uses a system much like runbooks which we call Event Handlers. We have a pretty good example of using an event handler to trigger a script on a remote host after a state change occurs, in this case it restarts a service:

http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... h_NRPE.pdf

Event handlers are very flexible as you can do just about anything you desire with a script.

[alligator]

Nagios XI uses a system much like runbooks which we call Event Handlers. We have a pretty good example of using an event handler to trigger a script on a remote host after a state change occurs, in this case it restarts a service:

http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... h_NRPE.pdf

Event handlers are very flexible as you can do just about anything you desire with a script.

My apologies but by runbooks I am referring to how Tidal enterprise scheduler refers to them.
A set of instructions.

[slansing]

Nagios does not currently have a solution such as Tidal, as Tidal is outside of the scope of network monitoring. It is more of a Business Process management tool, which helps automate some of the positions staff would otherwise need to fill manually. As far as serverside/network hardware RC and automation Event Handlers cover that sector very well. And if you are privy to it we have documentation on integrating automation tools such as Selenium and AutoIT, which themselves, can do anything the end user can within the system.

AutoIT:
http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... Nagios.pdf

Selenium:
http://library.nagios.com/library/produ ... -nagios-xi

[alligator]

Not sure how this all got turned around but I am not looking for Tidal to be part of Nxi

Simply put I wanted to know if there is a way to attach instructions to an alert/incident so that operators monitoring for alerts can be given instructions on how to handle the alert.

[slansing]

Correct, I was showing you what we had that was similar. If you are looking for the ability to give instructions to administrators this can be done a number of ways. For one, if a net admin sees a host/service go down they can attach a note to said host/service so when the sys admins or other net admins see it they will have direction. Additionally we have just released a product titled Nagios Incident Manager that allows teams and individuals to track and solve problems as they come through from Nagios. More information on Nagios IM can be found here:

http://www.nagios.com/products/nagiosincidentmanager