Nagios Support Knowledgebase

View

In Nagios XI: Views are custom web pages that can be displayed within the Nagios XI interface. These pages can either be pages from with Nagios XI or external URLs that an administrator may find useful to embed for quick access to important information. Nagios XI provides the ability to automatically rotate through views. This view rotation is often useful in NOCs where admins want to see information on various screens periodically.

Virtual Machine

Refers to an operating system (e.g Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Linux, etc) that runs under a special software program, rather than on a dedicated computer system.

Virtual PC

Microsoft’s free product for running virtual machines on XP and Windows 7 workstations.

Virtual Server

[Generically, used interchangeably with virtual machine] Microsoft’s commercial product for running virtual machines.

Virtualbox

An Open Source product / project for running virtual machines.

VMware

Refers to a suite of products that can be used to run and manage virtual machines. See Virtual Machines.

VPN

VPN (Virtual Private Network): A secure "tunnel" or network from one location to another that crosses an insecure middle ground (e.g. the general Internet), MSPs often have persistent VPN connections to the remote networks of their clients. A persistent VPN connection is a tunnel/connection that is always setup, whereas a non-persistent VPN is created/destroyed manually by an administrator.

VPS

VPS (Virtual Private Server): Term generally used to refer to web servers that are hosted on the Internet and rented/leased to customers.

vSphere

A Vmware product for running virtual servers. See VMware.