Assistance in best structure to use

[TNTGav]

Hi all,

We're currently trialling Nagios XI with a view to moving to it later on in the year and I just wanted to poll you good people about the best way to setup groups.

We are a MSP and we have approximately 40 different companies that we would like to put in Nagios. Each of these 40 companies are completely separate networks with completely unlinked servers, so we would be using the remote agent on servers. The only people who will be in Nagios are our Admin's who are all on the same network. There will be no need for any of our clients to get notifications. In each of these companies we will be primarily monitoring windows based servers, websites, exchange servers etc.

To throw another spanner in the works we would like to put in our priorities for the different companies so certain alerts take precedent over others for different companies.

What is the best way to do this structually in Nagios? Any ideas or inputs would be greatfully appreciated

[mguthrie]

I'll let any others chime in as well with suggestions, but here are some that I would make.

- Make full use of hostgroups and service groups to organize monitoring for each company
- Utilize host and service templates as much as possible for each different company / monitoring group. That way if you need to change the notification settings or check settings for everything under a certain group, you can just change it in one place.
- If your team members have certain sites that they're responsible for, set them up as Nagios XI 'users' with some of the advanced settings, that way they''ll only be able to see what they're responsible for.