This document introduces Nagios XI, an enterprise-class monitoring solution built on the Nagios Core foundation. Nagios XI features a simplified web-based user interface that does not require advanced configuration knowledge. It allows for multi-tenancy and session-based authentication. Nagios XI also includes advanced visualization features, reporting capabilities, and the Core Config Manager for easily managing the Core monitoring engine. The document explains that Nagios XI saves time and money for users compared to Nagios Core due to its intuitive GUI, configuration wizards, and faster installation and monitoring.
2. Introduction
• What is Nagios XI?
• Why is XI S.M.A.R.T.?
• How is it Different from Core?
• How to get XI?
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3. What is Nagios XI?
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The Commercial, Enterprise
class Nagios Solution
Built on Nagios Core
foundation
Nagios and Google Analogy
• Core parallels Google’s algorithm
• XI parallels Google.com
4. What is Nagios XI?
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5. Simplified
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Web-Based User Interface
• Gradual learning curve
• No advanced configuration
knowledge necessary
• Fewer mistakes to be made
XI is easy to use and
maintains the functionality
and power of Core
6. Management
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Multi-tenancy
• Define configurations on a per-user basis
• Specific people see their own specific tasks
• Session based authentication
• Allows for Monitoring to be a session in
which user log in and out
• Core treats monitoring as a perpetual
session
Core Config Manager (CCM)
• Manage Core monitoring engine with the web-
based interface
• Import original Core files to XI
7. Advanced
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Visualizations
• XI includes advanced visualization features
built in
• Makes understanding monitoring data
easier
• Reports
• Create advanced scheduled reports
• Daily, weekly, monthly basis
Configuration
• Core Config Manager
• Easy access to critical Core files
8. Resources
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Capacity Planning
• Upgrade before you bottle-neck
• Performance monitoring
Budgets
• Long-term planning
Maintenance Staff
• Efficient use of man hours
• Increased focus
9. Time
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XI Saves you time
• Time is Money
• Intuitive GUI
Configuration Wizards
• Takes seconds to monitor
• Thousands of addons make monitoring
easy
Installation
• Monitoring in minutes
• Faster you can monitor, the safer you are
11. Where Can I Download?
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Online
• Nagios.com
• Click Download
• XI is free for 60-days
• Support during trial
• Try it before you buy it
Email
• sales@nagios.com
• Questions, quotes
12. Why Is It Better?
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XI is S.M.A.R.T
Designed to save time/money
Top companies use XI
Easy to acquire and implement
Adapt to any IT environment
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This presentation is designed to answer 4 main questions about Nagios XI. By the end of the presentation, you will understand what Nagios XI is, why Nagios XI is S.M.A.R.T., how it’s different from Nagios Core, and how to get XI. (CLICK)
Nagios XI is the Commercial grade monitoring solution developed by Nagios Enterprises.
Nagios Core has been around for over a decade and has a strong, time tested foundation. Nagios XI builds upon the Core engine making it just as reliable and supported as Core.
The relationship between the two can be summed up in this analogy with Google’s popular search engine. Google.com is made up of essentially two parts: the webpage that everyone uses to search and the algorithm that actually does the searching. The Nagios Core project parallels Google’s search algorithm. With only Google’s search algorithm it would take advanced configuration knowledge and a lot of time to complete an internet search, but it would be possible. Nagios XI parallels the Google.com webpage. On Google.com it literally takes a matter of seconds to type the URL into the address bar, enter a search term, and get a list of results. Nagios XI gives users this same intuitive functionality with all of the power that Nagios Core contains as a monitoring engine. It’s this ease of use that makes XI such a powerful tool for IT infrastructure monitoring.
Nagios XI is SMART. SMART is an acronym that stands for “Simplified Management of Advanced Resources & Time”
Each of these components differentiate The Nagios Core from XI, the commercial grade monitoring solution.
Simplified.
Nagios XI simplifies the exterior shell of the Nagios Core. XI uses a web-based interface to give users a more gradual learning curve of the software. Core and XI are both extremely powerful monitoring tools, but XI makes it easier for the user to implement changes and start monitoring. XI does not require any prior knowledge of coding which makes it ideal for less technical users to ensure the security of their network. Also, addons, like configuration wizards, are designed to minimize potential configuration errors by asking for simple, specific information and completing the configuration for the user.
Everything that Core can do, XI can do just as well with simplified interfaces and greater ease-of-use to the user.
Management.
Nagios XI gives users an enormous amount of management capabilities. XI is a multi-tenant monitoring solution which allows configurations to be defined on a per-user basis. Each member of your IT team has a specific task and job function. Nagios XI allows the Administrator to define which hosts and services can be viewed by each user. These definitions ensure that each user is focused on sections of the network that are relevant to their job and an IT team can monitor efficiently instead of drowning in a sea of data. Additionally, XI has moved to a session-based authentication process. Each user receives their own credentials for the network and can log in and out within seconds.
Another way that XI can manage your network is with the CCM (Core Config Manager). This feature allows users to manage the Core monitoring engine from within the web-based interface. Core configuration no-longer has to take place on the Nagios server, but can be remotely accessed by any user with permission to access the Core Config Manager. The CCM allows users to import their original Core files into an XI interface. This makes the migration from Core to XI nearly seamless. The less time spent trying to configure a “new” setup can be spent on monitoring and keeping your network safe.
Advanced.
Nagios XI is a more advanced monitoring solution. Monitoring your network is great, but it doesn’t mean anything if you aren’t able to understand what your monitoring solution is doing. What XI does is combines the advanced monitoring engine data with easy to read visualizations so that you are able to understand exactly what is going on with your network. These visualizations ensure that when problems occur you will know where it is happening and fix it.
XI also has advanced reporting features which collect data based on specific time periods and compiles it into easy to read reports. These reports can be scheduled to be compiled automatically on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. By having reports scheduled automatically, you’ll always receive important data on your network when you want to read it.
Advanced Configurations are also easy to access in XI. Like I said before, the Core Config Manager allows for users to easily access the Core configuration files and make necessary amendments without entering the Nagios Server directly.
Resources.
Nagios XI is designed to save you resources. The Capacity Planning feature of Nagios XI is designed to help you make critical hardware decisions so that your system can upgrade before a performance bottle-neck occurs. By monitoring parameters such as CPU Load and Disc Usage, you will know exactly when an upgrade will need to take place. Trending data help you know you business better.
These same features come into play in creating and implementing Budgets for your company. With trending plugins like capacity planning can help you create a long-term plan and increase the effectiveness of your capital.
Some other resources that XI helps you manage precious IT staff man hours. By finding the problem and allowing you to focus their efforts on fixing problems, XI keeps IT staff working on keeping the network running, not watching things that are functioning properly.
Time.
Nagios XI is designed to save you resources and time. In business, time is money so when you’re saving time, you’re also saving money. Nagios XI saves you time by monitoring your network efficiently and also by having an easy to use, intuitive GUI. Both are designed to minimize the time it takes to complete simple tasks and keep your monitoring server checking your network.
Configuration Wizards are available addons to XI which take the time and computer science degree out of configuring new devices to monitor. The wizards take literally seconds to setup and by following the simple instructions, you can configure new devices to be monitored. Configuration Wizards are just a small portion of the thousands of addons available for Nagios XI which are all designed to make monitoring easier and more effective.
With other monitoring solutions you will be spending hours of time configuring your network just to get simple devices monitored. Nagios XI has a quick and straight forward installation process. Combined with the configuration wizards, you can be monitoring your network in minutes. In the world of IT monitoring, the faster you can monitor, the safer you are. You’ll be prepared to find potentially catastrophic problems in your network and react in a timely manner.
The biggest testimony to Nagios is the sheer number of companies monitoring their networks with XI. With so many trusted businesses using our monitoring solution on their networks, Nagios is truly the industry standard in IT infrastructure monitoring.
So, how can you get Nagios XI?
The first way is to visit our website Nagios.com. On our homepage there is information regarding Nagios XI. If you click the download button, you will be able to download Nagios XI for free with a 60-day trial license. There is also Technical support included during the trial period to help resolve any problems that may occur, or simply asnwer any question you may have during the 60-day trial.
We understand that it can be intimidating to implement a new software into your existing business which it why we encourage you to try it before you buy it.
Additionally, you can contact our sales department at sales @ nagios.com. If you have any questions about Nagios XI and how it can help your business save time and money, or you would just like a quote for monitoring your network, a helpful sales person will return your email in a timely fashion.
In conclusion, we’ve learned the compared to Nagios Core, XI is a Simplified Management of Advanced Resources & Time. S.M.A.R.T.
From it’s foundation, XI is designed to save you time and money, and make your life easier.
Top companies already use Nagios XI to monitor their IT infrastructures
Nagios XI is easy to acquire and implement in any IT environment so you can be monitoring in just minutes.
After learning about the differences between Nagios XI and Nagios Core, it is easy to see that XI has only improved upon the powerful Nagios Core. XI’s aim is to make monitoring crucial IT infrastructures easy and intuitive. That is why Nagios is the Idustry Standard in IT Infrastructure Monitoring.