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Hi, Good Day!

We have a client, whose interested in implementing Nagios XI enterprise, they currently using Nagios core.
They have some clarification regarding on capabilities of Nagios XI. Here are the questions:

1. In terms of sending email notification, Does Nagios XI looks up to Exchange before it sends an email to a technical person? Or even it doesn't have an internet connection, Nagios XI will send an email notification? Or Nagios XI can send an email notification through it's builtin email postfix? Because in installation process of Nagios XI there is a script called “7-sendmail”.

2. In terms of sending sms notification, what is the process of it? Does it need another device with sim card to send a sms?

3. In terms of database of Nagios XI, is it possible that the database of Nagios is separated from the Nagios XI Server? Or is it possible that the database will be extended to a new environment?

4. In terms of updates, would there still be a notification regarding update availability if nagios is not connected to the internet? Specifically, updates on version?

5. Does Nagios XI can filter a specific service in different hosts in one report?

Kindly please help us to have feedback on this matter. This will help us to win this account.

Thank you very much,

John Benedict Z. Maliwat
Junior Technical Support Engineer
Manila, Philippines

1) Nagios XI's default mail transfer again is sendmail, however you can setup your /bin/mail to use whatever MTA you want. Nagios XI can also be configured to use SMTP servers so Exchange is within that realm.

2) No it simply needs an address to dispatch it too. Refer to http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... _in_XI.pdf for more details.

3) It is entirely possible to move the database to a different server. MySQL allows for remote locations. Refer to this doc for a step-by-step: http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... Server.pdf

4) No there is no notifications sent out.

5) Yes Nagios XI is capable of narrowing down reports to very specific subsets.

Thank you for your immediate reply.

For clarification:

Refer to #1. So it means, if it uses the default mail transfer, which is sendmail, it can still send an email notification even there is no connection to the internet?
Refer to #3. Is there a possible that the database of Nagios XI is can be extended, for example, you will not remove your database to another server, but instead you will add another database server and connect it to the database inside of Nagios XI? Is it possible?

And, In terms of backing up and restoration. For example, you already move the database to a different server. And then, you backed up your Nagios Server, and then after backing up the database sever(moved) crashed. And then, since the database server is "boom", you set up another(new) database server. And if you restore what you backed up, does the data that you backed up will sync to the new setup database server? or need to transfer again the data to the new server?

Thank you so much.

Can anyone help me on this?

Thank you so much in advance for the help.

1) Yes, thats what that means.

3) I haven't seen anything in the MySQL docs about that so I'm not sure.

New) No your data will not automagically move to the newly restored Nagios XI server, you'll have to do the mysqldump of the backup server (that is acting as the main, production MySQL server) and put the contents of the mySQL dump in your target database.

Thank you sir.

nscott wrote:1) Nagios XI's default mail transfer again is sendmail, however you can setup your /bin/mail to use whatever MTA you want. Nagios XI can also be configured to use SMTP servers so Exchange is within that realm.

2) No it simply needs an address to dispatch it too. Refer to http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... _in_XI.pdf for more details.

3) It is entirely possible to move the database to a different server. MySQL allows for remote locations. Refer to this doc for a step-by-step: http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... Server.pdf

4) No there is no notifications sent out.

5) Yes Nagios XI is capable of narrowing down reports to very specific subsets.

Thanks for sharing this. I have quite similar query about this matter.
Try to figure it out and if it works, i'll let you know.