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Hi,

I have some querys about nagios which i want to get clear before i go ahead.....


1) If we are monitoring 500 hosts with 5000 services at location A and 500 hosts with 5000 services at location B and both the locations are pingable to each other .... so we can install nagiosxi in location A and and also monitor hosts which are located in B ??? .



2) If we are monitoring 500 hosts with 5000 services at location A and 500 hosts with 5000 services at location B and both the locations are not pingable to each other .... so do we have to install nagiosxi in both the locations ??????


3) There is a customer who has 100 clients (companies) where he want to install Nagiosxi in each client but each client is not connected to each other . there is no pinging between each other as they are working on different networks. In Every client there are around only 30-40 hosts and 150 services in each location and every client wants to install nagiosxi only ... beacuse they require graphs and reports.
so , how should i go ahead with it....Do i need to install nagiosxi in each 100 locations . If yes then this would cost him alot which the customer won't go ahead with this.
is there any way i can go ahead with it.....please suggest.

or

If i install nagios core on each 100 clients and buy a nagios Fusion and collect each data at one place and generate grpahs and reports and send to each respective client.
Is it possible?



Thanks

1) If we are monitoring 500 hosts with 5000 services at location A and 500 hosts with 5000 services at location B and both the locations are pingable to each other .... so we can install nagiosxi in location A and and also monitor hosts which are located in B ??? .

- Yes, you can do this by pushing host/service data to one central Nagios XI server http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... Server.pdf



2) If we are monitoring 500 hosts with 5000 services at location A and 500 hosts with 5000 services at location B and both the locations are not pingable to each other .... so do we have to install nagiosxi in both the locations ??????

- I would take a look at the document above for this as well. You would need to create a connection between the two servers in some fashion.

3) There is a customer who has 100 clients (companies) where he want to install Nagiosxi in each client but each client is not connected to each other . there is no pinging between each other as they are working on different networks. In Every client there are around only 30-40 hosts and 150 services in each location and every client wants to install nagiosxi only ... beacuse they require graphs and reports.
so , how should i go ahead with it....Do i need to install nagiosxi in each 100 locations . If yes then this would cost him alot which the customer won't go ahead with this.
is there any way i can go ahead with it.....please suggest.

or

If i install nagios core on each 100 clients and buy a nagios Fusion and collect each data at one place and generate grpahs and reports and send to each respective client.
Is it possible?

- Well for option one you would have to have some way for Nagios XI to communicate with the hosts you are trying to monitor, this can be done passively through WMI, SNMP, NRDS etc.. or actively though agent monitoring. The simple fact is, if you have absolutely no way to work around a barrier between the Nagios XI server and your networks you would have to install a XI server at that network's location. We do have an extensive list of ways to monitor hosts/services, but you would need to create a path through the network's security either a one way, or two way connection. For instance, if you set up passive monitoring to those hosts, and your network only allowed traffic out but not in, that would work perfectly.

I would get in contact with [email protected] as far as deploy-ability goes and they can help you find the right solution.

Thanks for the Reply


3) There is a customer who has 100 clients (companies) where he want to install Nagiosxi in each client but each client is not connected to each other . there is no pinging between each other as they are working on different networks. In Every client there are around only 30-40 hosts and 150 services in each location and every client wants to install nagiosxi only ... beacuse they require graphs and reports.
so , how should i go ahead with it....Do i need to install nagiosxi in each 100 locations . If yes then this would cost him alot which the customer won't go ahead with this.
is there any way i can go ahead with it.....please suggest.

or

If i install nagios core on each 100 clients and buy a nagios Fusion and collect each data at one place and generate grpahs and reports and send to each respective client.
Is it possible?

- Well for option one you would have to have some way for Nagios XI to communicate with the hosts you are trying to monitor, this can be done passively through WMI, SNMP, NRDS etc.. or actively though agent monitoring. The simple fact is, if you have absolutely no way to work around a barrier between the Nagios XI server and your networks you would have to install a XI server at that network's location. We do have an extensive list of ways to monitor hosts/services, but you would need to create a path through the network's security either a one way, or two way connection. For instance, if you set up passive monitoring to those hosts, and your network only allowed traffic out but not in, that would work perfectly.


What I understood is that , If there are different locations in which nagios core is installed in all location and are not connected to each other…. And if traffic is allowed to go out to any network then in this situation we can create a centralize nagiosxi server and all the nagios core monitoring will be done with passive check and data would be sent to nagiosxi as a collector and data would be stored in nagiosxi and by manage user , user can also access only particular nagios servers.

OR

If we have a centralized nagiosxi server and there are 100 clients in which every client has 50 host and only traffic to go out to any network is allowed so with the help of passive checks from every host from different location can be given to centralized nagiosxi…then we can create different user for evry client so that they can access their particular hosts….is it possible……

The Passive check is only done for servers or it can be done for switches, routers..etc also?

Mike wrote:Do i need to install nagiosxi in each 100 locations . If yes then this would cost him alot which the customer won't go ahead with this.
is there any way i can go ahead with it.....please suggest.

This would be the ideal setup allowing the segmentation of the individual clients and having the individual monitoring servers will have access to all of the machines they need to monitor.

Mike wrote:If yes then this would cost him alot which the customer won't go ahead with this.
is there any way i can go ahead with it.....please suggest.

You could set this up with a hodge-podge of core server, but you would not have the same reporting functionality of XI and while it would be much less expensive in terms of licensing cost, the man hours it would take you to configure and maintain such a network would eclipse the cost of the licensing.

Contact our sales department as the cost may not be as much as you expect when you factor bulk discounts, site-wide licensing or smaller (non-unlimited) licenses