Feeding other Alerts into Nagios XI

[costanza2k1]

Our Nagios XI system is finally in production and now comes the fun part. Outside of monitoring our base systems sucks as *nix, windows, and various Cisco devices I'm ready to start sending the following into Nagios XI as events so that my NOC is only looking at 1 monitoring tool instead of multiple:

Mainframe abends
Syslog events
Triggered Splunk events
Wily APM triggered events
etc

I realize I can't make Nagios XI my ONLY tool, but it will at least serve as the primary and then if folks need to do a deeper dive they can go into another tool from there. So what's the best way to do this? Via SNMP traps? Or is there something built in that can receive the alerts and then be able to process them. Please give me some guidance and suggestions.

[abrist]

Passive checks ftw.
If you can use traps, they will be the best solution in my opinion at the cost of a bit more setup time.
You could also use send_nsca, nrdp, passive nsclient checks, among others to send results to XI. But for most of these devices, you may be better off with traps.

[costanza2k1]

Passive checks ftw.
If you can use traps, they will be the best solution in my opinion at the cost of a bit more setup time.
You could also use send_nsca, nrdp, passive nsclient checks, among others to send results to XI. But for most of these devices, you may be better off with traps.

Thanks man! So much to explore and learn, everyday I'm still learning...love this!

[abrist]

No problem. Let us know if you have any other questions. Enjoy the week.