Although these ARM development boards may not be ideal for the amount of traffic generated by an organization, they can be a low-cost way to get started experimenting with electronics and computer science at home!
XI SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
People have certainly done this before! I see articles and videos posted across the internet on the subject.
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I believe that the free version is limited to monitoring about seven hosts.
Nagios XI is available free of charge for monitoring small environments. Nagios XI installations with a free license are limited to monitoring up to seven (7) hosts (nodes) and up to 100 total host and service checks.
PRICING
The hardest part of setting up a
Pi server on your network is finding it (usually using
nmap), and then establishing an
SSH connection. Once you have done that, I believe you can install
XI using the regular ( debian-based )
Linux install instructions.
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cd /tmp
wget https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagiosxi/xi-latest.tar.gz
tar xzf xi-latest.tar.gz
cd nagiosxi
./fullinstall
In my humble opinion, the
Raspberry Pi,
Arduino, and the like are geared more towards being breakout boards for integrating custom electronics into your system. You may want to host the
XI application on a stationary,
virtual server, use the
Pi to plug in to a sensor, and then monitor that by installing an
agent (like
NCPA) on it. Just an idea!
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