Nagios Support Knowledgebase

WAN

WAN (Wide Area Network): Generally refers to larger networks that consist of LANs and VPNs.

Web Transaction

Refers to monitoring web applications and making sure they work. Example: Adding an item to a shopping cart and making sure you can proceed to the checkout page. Nagios XI can monitor web transactions with the website transaction monitoring wizard. See also User Experience Monitoring and Synthetic Transaction.

Website Defacement

Website defacement is an attack on a website that changes the visual appearance of the site or a webpage. These are typically the work of system crackers, who break into a web server and replace the hosted website with one of their own. Nagios XI can monitor for potential Website defacement using the Website Defacement monitoring wizard.

Wizard

In Nagios XI wizards can be used to to perform configuration of hosts and services through the Web UI. Wizards take the complicated matter of creating hosts and services, defining configuration parameters, assigning contacts, contact groups, hostgroups, servicegroups, etc, into a easy 6 step form in the Nagios XI UI. Wizards can also be easily added to Nagios XI through the Admin -> Manage Wizards menu to expand the capabilities of Nagios XI.

WMI

Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is a part of Windows operating systems and can provide management data and operational information about those system. WMI can be used to automate administrative tasks on remote Windows-based computers. Nagios Core and Nagios XI are capable of monitoring Windows machines via WMI. .