Using NagVis

Very good! If you feel like drawing and taking your monitoring to a new dimension, This is your document! With NagVis we can have fully customized real-time status maps! We will design maps that help us detect problems, to document our platform, Interconnectivity maps, both LAN and WAN… maps that we will make with Visio or PhotoShop and we will easily make them come to life!

Other – Basic Configurations 2/2

Well, I leave you here what I promised, a second delivery with base configurations that would have to be carried out in an OTRS installation, In this part, we'll look at how to set up reports and visualize your data, as well as conducting satisfaction surveys to our Customers, we'll customize the OTRS input interface and we'll see a few more things! In future documents we will delve into the ITSM part for all issues of internal processes or inventories, o Nagios integration…

Other – Basic Configurations 1/2

We will see in a couple of documents some base configurations that normally have to be carried out after the installation of OTRS, as you well know one of the best Ticketing systems, Especially because of how customizable it is, in addition to being Open Source! The configurations that I will detail will allow us to have this system prepared to receive and manage incidents from our users, via web and via email. In these documents we will create the Queues, Customers, Agents, We will enable custom autoresponders, Signatures, Email Templates, surveys, We will set up and report, or we will customize the access portal to OTRS among other things!

Nagios – Checking the status of Users in Active Directory

When we have enough users in our organization, or above all, When they are a bit of moles, we can try and control your Active Directory accounts, to prevent and monitor possible failures, This is, We will be able to control whether user accounts are disabled, Your passwords have expired or are close to expiring, as well as if they have become blocked, among other options.

Nagstamon

One of the great utilities that we usually have installed to control our environment in real time is Nagstamon, This app installed at our kiosks, it will notify us when any monitoring item generates an alert. Integrates seamlessly into the Windows taskbar or anywhere in the workstation, also on computers with MacOS or Linux! We can use it to bypass email alerts if we are interested!

Nagios – Measuring Disk Load in Windows

If we are interested in controlling the load on the disks of our Windows servers, we will be able to monitor it simply thanks to a simple PowerShell that we will run through NRPE. We will obtain read and write latencies, Number of reads and writes per second, as well as the read and write ratio in MB/s and also the read queue time & writing!

Nagios – Monitoring digital certificates

Very good!! I wanted to share this document for those who need to monitor digital certificates, We will be able to confirm its validity to prevent any fall. As we all know, These are critical points in our organization, since if a certificate were to expire, the service offered by said product would fall, no matter how much we have invested in data centers in high availability, Clusters…