To learn more about SAM, visit: http://www.solarwinds.com/server-application-monitor.aspx In this How-To we’ll walk you through two really quick and simple steps to migrate Nagios scripts to SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) Learn how to leverage Nagios scripts for IT Infrastructure monitoring and migrate Nagios scripts to SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor.

1. How to Migrate Nagios Scripts to
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor

2. Agenda
In this How-to we’ll walk you through two really quick and simple steps
to migrate Nagios scripts to SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
(SAM)
Leveraging Nagios Scripts for IT Infrastructure Monitoring
Migrating Nagios Scripts to SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
 Step 1: Apply Nagios Script Monitor to your Monitoring Template
 Step 2: Run Nagios script using Nagios Script Monitor
 Some Nuggets to Note in Getting the Script Output
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3. Leveraging Nagios Scripts for IT Infrastructure
Monitoring
 Nagios is a popular Open Source computer system monitor that is
widely used by enterprises for network, application, server monitoring
and other IT infrastructure monitoring.
 Nagios offers complete monitoring and alerting for servers, applications,
networking devices and services.
 Many network and system administrators use a growing collection of
open source Nagios scripts to monitor network devices.
 These scripts are generally used for confirming the completion of daily
backups.
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4. Migrating Nagios Scripts to SolarWinds
Server & Application Monitor
 SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) allows you to use your
existing Nagios Scripts to extend monitoring coverage.
 The script processor built into SAM enables you to convert most Nagios
scripts into a format that can be used to schedule and run jobs and
report findings.
 SAM also has template monitors available out of the box to run the
Nagios script on the SolarWinds SAM server and then process the
script’s exit code and text output.
 SAM has built-in ‘Nagios Script Monitor’ to migrate your self-written
Nagios scripts, or any third-party open source Nagios script to for easy
and comprehensive monitoring
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5. Step 1: Apply Nagios Script Monitor to your
Monitoring Template
 The Nagios Script Monitor is a component monitor available within SolarWinds
SAM that can be applied to any out-of-the-box or user-defined monitoring
template.
 First, create a new application monitor template or select a built-in template.
Click on the Add Component Monitor button to the Nagios Script Monitor to
your template.
 This component monitor uses SSH to upload a script to a server, runs the script,
then processes the script exit code and text output. This has the ability to return
multiple results and has the ability to process Nagios resulting output.
Click Add Component Monitor >> Apply Nagios Script Monitor to your application monitor template
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6. Step 2: Run Nagios script using Nagios
Script Monitor
 Once the Nagios Script
Monitor is added, click Edit.
This will open the Edit
Script window.
 Now, paste your Nagios
Script in the Script Body
field, and add the directory
name in the command line.
 You have to select the
server node where
SolarWinds SAM will need
to run the component
monitor.
 Click Get Script Output to
select the server node.
The Command Line parameters taken for the above script are:
•directory – This is the path of the directory (e.g. /bin,/etc,/usr/local,/)
•sub – Include subdirectories. This parameter is optional.
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7. Some Nuggets to Note in Getting the Script Output
 Some points to be noted in getting the script output:
» The monitoring statistic (that is to be returned with the output) needs to be defined in the
script.
» A maximum of 10 output pairs can be returned. If you exceed the maximum allowed, remove
the excess output pairs or they will simply be ignored.
» Nagios determines the status of a host or service by evaluating the return code. The following
table shows a list of valid return codes, along with their corresponding service or host states .
Return Code Service State Host State
0 Ok Up
1 Warning Up or Down/Unreachable
2 Critical Down/Unreachable
3 Unknown Down/Unreachable
Test result of a Nagios Script which counts the number of files, directories, and symbolic
links in a given directory
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8. Output Statistics of Nagios Script Monitor from
SolarWinds SAM’s Intelligent Dashboard
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9. Helpful Resources
If you have Nagios and need a better way to
monitor scripts , we invite you to learn more about
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
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Click any of the links above
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10. Author
Jennifer Kuvlesky
Thank You!