Nagios Integration with Scrutinizer
Posted in General, Network Traffic Analysis, Network Traffic Monitor on May 4th, 2010 by Paul
Today, I’m going to talk about how to integrate Nagios with Scrutinizer. Nagios is an IT infrastructure monitoring tool that helps organizations ensure systems, applications, services and business processes are functioning properly. By integrating Scrutinizer into Nagios network administrators will have the ability to run NetFlow reports on their devices, have Scrutinizer dashlets, and view network usage maps all from one place. You can learn more about Nagios by taking a trip to their website.
Let’s take a look at the different ways we can setup the Scrutinizer and Nagios integration.
NetFlow Host Reports
In Nagios, when you’re viewing your host’s status you’ll be able to launch NetFlow reports for each of the devices you’re interested in.
NetFlow Dashlets
By creating dashlets in Nagios it will allow you to view your favorite Scrutinizer gadgets such as Top Countries, Top Applications, and your network usage maps.
NetFlow Network Usage Maps
Here is an example of our office map on the Nagios home dashboard.
If you’re interested in getting started, you will need to download our Nagios integration with Scrutinizer instructions and follow the steps provided. Scrutinizer’s easy third party integration is another reason why it is a best at NetFlow solution for network traffic analysis. Enjoy.
Paul
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Hi there
It appears Scrutinizer only runs on Windows and your demo is on Nagios XI. I’m running RH EL5. Will it work ?
Hi henry,
We haven’t tested on RH EL5, but if the file structure is the same for your version then it’ll work.
Thanks,
Paul
Hi,
This integration will work in Nagios Core Setup as well ?
I am trying to integrate this as a Proof Of Concept and I am getting a 404 error when selecting Scrutinizer for a host in NagiosXI. It seems that it is trying to use a search.html that doesn’t exist.
Hi James,
Did you update the ajaxhelpers-hoststatus.inc.php, scrutcountries.inc.php, scrutmap.inc.php, scruttopapplications.inc.php files with your Scrutinizer server’s information? What’s the entire URL that’s leading you to the 404 error? What version of Scrutinizer are you running? Please email the answers to pauld@plixer.com.
Thanks,
Paul
I followed the steps, getting two behaviors:
1) With the nagios dashlet, I have a message that says (inside the dashlet): “You have been logged out. To continue, close this popup and log back into your Scrutinizer server.”
2) With the host reports, the scrutinizer icon shows up next to each host, but when I click the icon, it takes me to the scrutinizer server interface, prompting me to login, and once logged in, I am not getting a host-centric report of that host from nagios.
I am using Scrutinizer 8.5.0 on a windows server, and Nagios XI 2009R1.4B on a separate CentOS 5.5 server.
I am using a dedicate nagios account in scrutinizer, with guest level access (dunno if that could be the problem.)
Any ideas on how to fix this issue?
Thanks,
Nick
I stand corrected, only the first item I mentioned is occurring. The per-device scrutiziner integration is working great.
I’m Using vista here,
can it run with this kind of OS
Thanks,
Dotcom
With NagiosXI how do I integrate the scrutinizer plugin? Should I load it as a component or plugin? Or should I unzip the tar into the destination directory manually?
They are not components or plugins, but dashlets. After making your changes to the scrutcountries.inc.php, scrutmap.inc.php, and scruttopapplications.inc.php files, you can zip each directory and upload the dashlets one at a time.
Is there a version of this for Nagios Core, not Nagios XI like the one provided ??
Hi, I am interested on your product, but I have two questons:
First: How much this plugin?
Second: Is It possible use this on Nagios core?
Best regards,
P.D: You can write to my mail.