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Monitoring Microsoft Azure from Nagiosxi
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2018 10:26 am
by 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.
Re: Monitoring Microsoft Azure from Nagiosxi
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2018 11:34 am
by lmiltchev
We do have a wizard for monitoring MS Azure Cloud VMs that ships with Nagios XI.
example01.PNG
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.
Re: Monitoring Microsoft Azure from Nagiosxi
Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2018 2:55 am
by 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.
Re: Monitoring Microsoft Azure from Nagiosxi
Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2018 9:12 am
by 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.
Re: Monitoring Microsoft Azure from Nagiosxi
Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2018 11:47 am
by 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.
Re: Monitoring Microsoft Azure from Nagiosxi
Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2018 12:44 pm
by 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.
Re: Monitoring Microsoft Azure from Nagiosxi
Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2018 1:28 pm
by 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.
Re: Monitoring Microsoft Azure from Nagiosxi
Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2018 1:38 pm
by 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.
example01.PNG
Re: Monitoring Microsoft Azure from Nagiosxi
Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2018 9:24 pm
by 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?
Re: Monitoring Microsoft Azure from Nagiosxi
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2018 9:05 am
by 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:
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