Nagios Core Initial Setup

NV
Sr. System Administrator at Guj Info Petro Limited

Setup is straight-forward & well documented.

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CA
Administrateur reseaux at Orange

I downloaded the Linux image from the internet, set up my server, and launched the setup. It took 10 minutes to install. During the last installation, I activated automatic system updates.

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SS
Senior Technical Support Engineer at a cloud solution provider with 11-50 employees

The setup process is very simple. 

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GD
Regional Portfolio Manager at First in Business Solutions

I would rate my experience with the initial setup a nine out of ten, where one being difficult and ten being easy. 

It was pretty easy. The deployment is really quick, it took us about an hour to deploy the solution in our organization. 

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MJ
Senior Software Engineer at Peristent Systems

The initial setup of Nagios Core is straightforward. We installed as per the steps mentioned in Nagios' documentation. It can be deployed in a day.

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Daniel Tamiru - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Database & System Administration at Awash International Bank

The initial setup process could be easier. For example, the setup for infrastructure monitoring is straightforward, but in the case of application monitoring, it is more complicated.

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James Jaramillo - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Specialist at ADDI

It depends on infrastructure, but normally Nagios is easy to deploy, and I could do it by myself. It usually takes two or three days, but I needed a week for one deployment. You need to install and configure everything and deploy the agents on various servers.

After deployment, you need to do periodic updates and patching. You download the latest pack from the Nagios server with the client. You can do an ATT update depending on if you have Red Hat or Windows between the platforms.

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NV
Sr. System Administrator at Guj Info Petro Limited

Initial setup was very straightforward. Just check the official Nagios website (www.nagios.org) for installation instructions.

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JM
Admin Sys Linux at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

The installation of Nagios Core was relatively straightforward with no major complexities. My team managed to install it within a day. Maintaining it is straightforward for us. We don't do frequent updates; it is a one-time install. The only ongoing task is occasional security adjustments, mainly related to access control. 

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Chetan_Sharma - PeerSpot reviewer
Linux System Administrator at Amity Software Systems Limited

Nagios Core's initial setup was not difficult for me.

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it_user873816 - PeerSpot reviewer
Strategic Staffing Solutions at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

I set the whole thing up. It wasn't complex, it was just that I had to do a lot of planning. If you follow your plan then you won't end up in trouble. If you deviate from the plan, you are going to have trouble.

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Azam S M - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Lead at Danat Fz LLC

The initial setup is easy and straightforward. Deployment probably took us an hour or two and was not implemented all at once. New areas come up all the time that require monitoring so we research which plugin will be useful and implement that. It's enhanced gradually whenever we have a specific requirement. The implementation was done in-house. There is some maintenance involved, including for the upgrades. I manage the solution but there's a development team to monitor the services, around eight to 10 people. 

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Rizwan Shabbir - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator at Mentor Graphics

The initial setup of Nagios Core is not complicated, once you are used to it, it can be easy. The full implementation took us approximately three hours.

I rate the initial setup of Nagios Core a three out of five.

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SK
Support on banking at Aithent

The tool's setup is straightforward. 

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LE
Partner Technical Support & Escalation Manager at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

From what I heard, it didn't seem difficult to set up. It was quite straightforward.

We're still rolling out and deploying new instances of VMs that we want to monitor. It's an ongoing process.

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it_user853911 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Architect at Rezgateway

Since its Nagios, it is a bit time consuming, but worth the effort. It took a few hours setting up the entire environment, including RRD, PHP, Apache, Nagios, PNP4Nagios, Perl, Python, OpenSSL, etc.

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AD
Systems and Virtualization Engineer at Altelios Technology Group

Nagios Core is deployed in a Linux operating system and it is simple to do. For a medium-sized infrastructure, the deployment can take a day.

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Massimo Rubboli - PeerSpot reviewer
Information systems manager at Golfera

The Nagios Core setup is complex, but I can handle it all myself. 

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it_user978732 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

The initial setup was complex, mainly because it was in Linux and had many packages that we're not used to. I had to install them one by one on the app to configure the complication on the app that was solved to authenticate Nagios on the central app. It comes with regular users in files and in order to authenticate, you have to make a lot of confirmations, using Apache as well as Nagios. This was all very hard, and it took me a week to configure it.

I think deployment took about two weeks at the most. We did the deployment by ourselves. We have two people for deployment and maintenance.

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it_user196494 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Coordinator at a tech services company

Setup is not for the GUI lover as it requires you to perform a lot of CLI work.

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it_user69474 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Administrator at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

A few years ago, the initial setup was complex, but now it's not. It just has some config files where you should add your host. Everything is written in the documentation.

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it_user167934 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Support Technician

The initial setup involved making sure that you knew what you were monitoring, where, what and how. Once this was done it was then possible to complete a default template which could be used to set up a server. As ever, the main effort in the beginning (once the product was selected) was in designing the layout. The actual setup was somewhat laborious (as I had not yet set up NagiosQL) and repetitive but once done, the housekeeping was minimal.

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JE
Network Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

The installation is initially a little bit complex.

The process took several months. Originally, we were using Linux systems.

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SS
Computer Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The initial setup was actually done by one of the vendors so we were one of the partners who collaborated with this for the installation. We were working together to do the installation and then they handed it over to us and then we took it over from there.

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it_user367884 - PeerSpot reviewer
Site Reliability Engineer at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

It was straightforward.

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it_user187839 - PeerSpot reviewer
Client Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The initial setup is easy if you just follow the basic guide. The complexity comes when you want to customize it to suit your environment. For example, different plugins require different configurations. There's also another challenge in that Nagios was originally designed to monitor Linux servers but has since expanded to Windows servers as well.

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it_user82485 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior DevOps Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It was a little complex.

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it_user301461 - PeerSpot reviewer
LAN/Wlan Administrator at a construction company

I read the manual, set up a test server, and performed some tests. After our initial setup, I then added more servers and any IP device on our network that had SNP support (switches, sensors, printers and so on). It was my first time working with a Unix environment, and it didn't take so much time to set it up.

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it_user256458 - PeerSpot reviewer
Labs infrastructure & technology team leader at a comms service provider with self employed

It was quite straightforward, but I would love to see an RPM package that includes all needed package dependencies.

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MN
Tech consultant at select softwares

Pretty straightforward to set up and configure basic system

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MJ
Network Operations Center Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The initial setup is pretty straightforward.

I can't say how long it took to deploy as we had several deployments at the same time, but it was not a problem at all. We didn't have any issues.

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it_user84708 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It is a complex software with many-many features, so the setup not an easy task.

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Buyer's Guide
Nagios Core
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about Nagios Core. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
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