Nagios XI Initial Setup

HM
Assistant Director at unpa

The initial setup is not a big problem for me. We just integrated Nagios XI with the solution to send SMS notifications. It might be very complex for other technicians and engineering. For me, I have good knowledge about integrating XI with other solutions. It can be a very complex task if a person is not knowledgeable.

We have six administrators that are in security and networking, and they are working with this solution in our company. We have a help desk and security team working with the product.

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DP
Senior DevOps Engineer Individual Contributor at EML Payments Ltd

The initial setup was satisfactory. 

It wasn't any better or worse than the others. 

It was difficult to configure, but not more complex than others similar to it.

It took a few months to complete the deployment. We deployed from scratch, we had to upgrade the network.

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MC
NMS Team Leader at KORE Telematics Inc.

The initial setup is not overly complex. It's pretty straightforward. 

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MN
DevOps consultant at Africa4Data

The product's initial setup is more complex than that of Elastic.

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SR
Distributed Systems Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Defining the requirements are always a given until you get a hang of the product, and we were no exception.

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DL
Director - Consultor Senior Unix/Linux - Freelance at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The initial configuration is very easy. The complex is customizing the solution.

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PB
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The setup was easy, taking between 15 and 20 days, and I would rate my experience as 3.5.

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Head of IT, Projects and Organization at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The setup was very straightforward. We did not have to create a complicated strategy. We just installed the server and add the devices that were most urgent for me to monitor. I just added the devices and it was as simple as that.

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HM
Assistant Director at unpa

I feel that the initial setup is difficult for a beginner. You must be skilled at using the Linux operating system to install and start up the solution.

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AE
Manager IT / Technical Project at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees

Nagios XI is very easy to install in our PE plugins to start monitoring the servers.

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GW
Business Development Specialist at Popular Holdings Limited

The initial setup is very complex, as there's no helpful manual and there are a lot of custom settings you have to learn.

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MN
IT CIO at Kimfay

The installation of this solution is a bit complex, and it requires that you are running it fully.

One of the issues that we experienced was getting the source to a computer where we could deploy it. That took some time.

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AS
IT-OSS Manager at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

The initial setup was straightforward. It's easy to install, but you need some information about the Linux operating system.

It took less than one hour to deploy.

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DP
NOC Manager/Network Administrator at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

The initial setup for this solution is quite easy. I am running it on a VM platform.

The deployment happens over time as the environment changes, but the initial deployment took one or two days. For the server to monitor, you just have to set the SNMP and add it onto the Nagios platform. As more servers are added, you add them to the platform.

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it_user718452 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Innovator and Entrepreneur at a tech services company

Configuring the Nagios engine is not a trivial task. Functional components build on top of each other as one defines the system configuration. One has to define the atomic components and then build moiré complex functions on top of those atomic components. This is cumbersome, but it also gives a system designer much flexibility in customizing their own solution.

Considering I come from the software engineering world, it reminds me of the power of the original C software compiler, where respective language easily enabled one to flip individual bits in a data stream. Today’s software compilers are much more simple and one can build high-level projects much quicker, but they do not provide easy access to low-level “bit-flipping” tricks. This is my opinion of the older Nagios Core product versus the newer Nagios XI product.

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Network Engineer at TLCWEB S.R.L.

Nagios setup is very simple. You can find some problem during plugin configuration or host configuration if you don't use a GUI like Adagios. If you use both it's easy to setup and configure your host and services.

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Web Operations Engineer at a renewables & environment company with 501-1,000 employees

The initial setup is straightforward, but you need to have a good grasp of the underlying files structure. All the pieces are there but without this understanding where to put things is not entirely intuitive.

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EJ
IP/MPLS Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

The installation is no problem. I've installed Nagios several times.

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AS
IT-OSS Manager at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

Set up in Nagios is complex. However, it's okay once you have done this task a few times, so you understand the logic. Once you have done that, it is easy to use.

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it_user356763 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant Ingénieur de production informatique at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

It's very easy for the basics features, but, like others tools, when you need plugins, it becomes more complex.

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HM
Assistant Director at unpa

Initial setup is complex.

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DK
Linux Administrator at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The deployment is determined by the customer. We have a large number of clients. Some clients host it in the cloud, while others host it on-premise.

Some clients have Amazon, and some clients have Linux.

The initial setup is easy.

The software installation does not take much time, half an hour. The onboarding of it will depend upon the environment.

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it_user738369 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

Nagios is straightforward and simple. It has very good documentation as well as a very active forum, too.

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HD
Nagios Technical Expert at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

The setup is really easy and can be done by any non-technical person as well. Nagios also provides an OVF for ESXi and VMware, which has everything set up; makes life easy.

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it_user123504 - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-Founder / Executive Director / Chief Technical Officer at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees

Our implementation was carried out by an in-house team.

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it_user137748 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Test Engineer at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

Setup ran pretty smooth. It's not overly difficult but it does require patience and some experience would make it easier. Like everything it is easier the second time around.

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NOC Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

It's very straightforward and and it has good documentation.

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KK
Lead Solution Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The initial setup is easy. It requires a team of ten engineers to execute the process.

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System Administrator at a hospitality company

For the latest versions, for me, it is pretty straightforward.

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it_user353805 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The installation and configuration was straightforward and not complex, but rather time consuming as there was no easy method to centrally deploy plugins or agents to hundreds of remote clients. The only complexity that we encountered was in the network configurations for our firewalls and routing.

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it_user248838 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems / DevOps Engineer with 1,001-5,000 employees

If you plan ahead of time and thoroughly test the final solution you want to implement, it should be straightforward.

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it_user134268 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager of Infrastructure at a university with 10,001+ employees

Initial setup is straightforward and allows monitored hosts to be added one-by-one using a wizard or added in bulk using the bulk add tool.

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SR
Network Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The initial setup is very straightforward.

The deployment took approximately one hour. The difficult part is configuring the equipment, such as setting up the IP addresses. Because I have more than fifty devices, it took me some time. The task is simple, albeit repetitive.

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it_user1104738 - PeerSpot reviewer
R&D Support & Monitoring, IT Production at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

The initial setup was straightforward.

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AS
Account Manager, Cybersecurity at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Because my company is experienced, installation is not a problem for us, but I'm not sure about new users.

We have a team of two or three people to deploy and maintain this solution.

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it_user205323 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager - Cybersecurity Technology, Cybersecurity Technology Services at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It's very straightforward initial configuration if you start with your distro packages.

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Solutions Architect at Blue Telecom Consulting

The initial setup looked quite straightforward, however, later on we found some performance issues that required the fine tuning of system parameters. Those changes were not very well documented, but technical support helped us resolve the issues perfectly.

The implementation of officially supported features was quite easy. We were also required to extend the system with a couple of ad-hoc functionalities and development of these pieces of code was not easy due to the lack of in depth documentation.

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it_user168444 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Infrastructure at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's a simple setup for a normal Linux users.

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