Month: October 2017

Setting up corrective actions in Centreon

Another of the great advantages of having our monitored platform is that we can take advantage of and generate our own scripts to carry out corrective actions in our environment. Something that runs on the remote machine when we have a problem, for example if we run out of disk space, Well, a script that releases temporary, or the example that we will make in this document; when Nagios or Centreon detects that we have DNS Service from the DNS Server down, Well, let him start 🙂 it Ideal for any need we have, repetitive problems that we can automate their solution…

Nagios – Monitoring Citrix NetScaler

Continuing a little with Citrix elements that we can monitor… what less than our NetScaler! In this document, we'll see how to monitor a Citrix NetScaler VPX virtual appliance that is currently the Gateway for my Citrix XenDesktop organization. We will monitor its basic consumption such as CPU through SNMP, Memory or disks, but also the connections, your network interfaces or certificates!

Installing Graphite and Grafana to visualize Centreon's graphics

In this document we are going to hallucinate… especially if you are a fan of graph measurement and want to exploit them… we will be able to export the results of our Centreon to a machine with Grafana and obtain the best solution for the visualization of our data… The dashboards that we will be able to generate will be impressive, We will customize them to our liking, combining metrics or intervals of each item that we have monitored with Centreon. And super simple!

Nagios – Monitoring OTRS Queues

If in our environment we have OTRS as a management system and Nagios or Centreon as a monitoring system, we will be able to integrate them and do real wonders, In this first document we will see something very simple: How to monitor the queues we have in OTRS from Nagios or Centreon. And we will continue in the future with other types of integrations!

Nagios – Checking CAL licenses in Remote Desktop

Very good! This document can be used by all of us who have a Remote Desktop Licensing service in our organization, It will always be good to know how many licenses we consume to analyze future needs or receive alerts in case there are few free licenses left. Therefore, if you have a service of this type in your organization, why not monitor your organization's RDP CAL licenses to avoid problems?

Nagios – Monitoring our Business Service (3/3)

At last, Last document in this super interesting series! Where we can measure the SLA offered by our Business and the time it has been offering service, we will also see how to transfer this Business monitoring to interactive maps with NagVis; in addition to carrying out impact analysis on our Business, where we can analyze the critical points of our business!