Nagios XI Monitoring Advice/Suggestions

[paul.nauen]

Good afternoon,

We have a Nagios XI Implementation hosted in AWS that monitors some of our Azure based resources.
We also have a secondary server in Azure that monitors the AWS side.

The secondary server is a Linux VM running an EOL distro that i am looking to replace.

Is it possible/advisable to use a windows based VM for this?
What is the best way to configure such a machine?

I am fairly new to Nagios from a setup perspective so any advice/guides would be amazing.

Thank you in advance.

[bbahn]

You can find the list of supported OSs at https://www.nagios.com/products/nagios-xi/.
The following are the OSs that Nagios XI supports:

RHEL | CentOS | Oracle Linux 7.x
Oracle Linux 7 requires the Optional repository to be enabled, further details are located here: Enabling Oracle Linux Optional Repository
RHEL | Oracle Linux 8.x/9.x
RHEL requires the Optional software channel to be enabled, further details are located here: Enabling RHEL Optional Software Channel
RHEL 8/9 requires CodeReady Builder to be enabled
CentOS Stream 8/9
Debian 10.x/11/x
Ubuntu 20/22

To migrate, there is an article here which can help you understand the best practices when upgrading Nagios XI: Best practices to upgrade/migrate OS with Nagios XI
and the links in that article:
Nagios-XI-License-Information
Migrating-Nagios-XI-to-a-different-Server
Upgrade-Instructions