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!

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…

Nagios – Checking if we are on SPAM blacklists

What's up txabales!!! We come with something that can fit us all! Anyone who has a Nagios or Centreon environment already set up (or want to cheer up), Why don't we control if our public IPs or the IP addresses through which our organization's mail leaves are blacklisted?? So far we know how we found out that you are on blacklists… Why either the mail doesn't go out or doesn't come in?, No? Get ahead of the curve and check the main blacklists!!

Nagios – Checking Windows Updates

If we are concerned about keeping our Microsoft Windows environment up to date and controlled, we can also help ourselves with monitoring to control the pending patches that our Servers have in Windows Update. Let's continue to centralize everything we can in our management panel, let's control all our infrastructure from Nagios or Centreon and live more relaxed!

Nagios – Monitoring with NRPE

Well, Well… Let's put a little more txitxa in our Nagios, Centreon or whatever we got, We will continue with something very interesting for those who want to monitor more advanced items! We will use a small agent that will be installed on remote Windows or Linux computers, For what? Well, among other things, to execute scripts on these computers. We can run any PowerShell script, Batch, VBScript, Perl… and then read the result of the command and discuss it with Nagios!