Nagios Webinars

Monitoring Outside of the Box: Unique XI Use Cases

We invite you to join us for our upcoming webinar, Monitoring Outside of the Box: Unique XI Use Cases, to learn about interesting ways that people are using Nagios XI. We will cover the following topics:

• Unconventional ways to determine issues in your IT infrastructure
• Environmental metrics to start monitoring
• Unique Nagios XI use cases

And more!

Enterprise Features for Advanced Monitoring

We invite you to join us for our upcoming webinar, Enterprise Features for Advanced Monitoring, to learn about monitoring tools you should be using but might not be. We will cover the following topics:

• Reporting features to help increase uptime
• Time-saving tools to maximize your productivity
• What features you get with Enterprise Edition

And more!

Best practices for avoiding data loss and downtime of endpoint drives

Sudden hardware failure. Lost or stolen computers. Disasters. Ransomware attacks. There are so many ways end-users’ hard drives can become unusable, which results in lost productivity and lost data. In this webinar, we are teaming up with backup experts from CrashPlan to chat about the best practices for making it easy for you to minimize employee downtime and data loss from hard drive failure. We’ll cover:

• Why you should monitor endpoint hard drives
• When and how to efficiently and proactively migrate users
• The top three data-loss situations to watch out for
• How to quickly get back up and running when disaster strikes

And more!

Data Visualization in Nagios XI

We invite you to join us for our upcoming webinar, Data Visualization in Nagios XI, to learn about how to increase network visibility and uptime with Nagios XI visualizations. We will be covering the following topics:

• Data visualizations you can use in XI
• Visualizations available within Nagios XI
• Tips and tricks for getting the most out of XI visualizations

And more!

Leverage Automation in Your Network Monitoring

We invite you to join us for our upcoming webinar, Leverage Automation in Your Network Monitoring, to learn about the benefits of integrating Ansible with Nagios XI and how to increase efficiency with Nagios XI tools. We will be covering the following topics:

• Use cases for integrating Ansible with Nagios XI
• How to integrate Ansible and Nagios XI
• Time-saving automations and tools to start using in Nagios XI

And more!

Increase your network visibility with Nagios Monitoring Suite

Increase your network visibility with Nagios’s Monitoring Suite. We invite you to join us for our upcoming webinar to learn how you can increase your network visibility with Nagios’s Monitoring Suite. Learn about the benefits of integrating Nagios XI with other Nagios solutions. We will be covering the following topics:

• Nagios XI, Log Server, Network Analyzer, and Fusion product overviews
• The advantages of integrating Nagios XI with the rest of the Nagios monitoring solutions
• How to integrate Nagios solutions with each other

And more!

The Power of Nagios Plugins

Avoid downtime in 2023 by using Nagios plugins. Plugins are standalone extensions to Nagios that allow you to monitor nearly anything in your environment. We invite you to join us for our upcoming webinar The Power of Nagios Plugins to learn about how IT professionals are using custom plugins in their environment to increase uptime. We will be covering the following topics:

• Custom plugin use cases
• The upcoming agentless Windows monitoring plugins release
• Guidelines for creating Nagios plugins

And more!

Fine Tune your Nagios XI Deployment in 2023

Revisiting agentless Windows monitoring. Join us as we share how you can save your organization time in 2023 by being strategic about how you setup and maintain your monitoring configuration. We will show you tools in Nagios XI Core Configuration Manager that will help you administer your monitored environment efficiently. We’ll cover topics such as:

• Simplifying deployment with host and service templates
• Organizing your deployment with host and service groups for easy reporting and visualization
• Saving time with bulk modification tools

And more!

WMI Changes Got You Down? Nagios Alternatives to Keep You Running

Revisiting agentless Windows monitoring. You may remember from our webinar back in March that it looks like Microsoft may be moving away from SNMP, and making changes to WMI that may break monitoring. Since then, our users have been climbing the walls trying to find out how Nagios Enterprises will be tackling agentless Windows monitoring. We hear your concerns. In this month’s webinar, Nagios Enterprises are proud to announce a few alternatives for agentless Windows monitoring. Whether you are an open source user or one of our Nagios XI customers, we will have options for you! Come learn about the future of agentless Windows monitoring. There may be an additional surprise in it for you.

IT Horror Stories: Don’t Get Caught in a Monitoring Nightmare

Join us as we face our IT fears head on and share real IT horror stories and how you can save your organization from a monitoring nightmare. We will demonstrate how Nagios XI arms you with the tools you need to fight back against monsters of monitoring. We’ll cover topics such as:

• The boy who cried wolf – how to avoid notification fatigue
• Reducing dreadly downtime with automation
• Avoiding the horror and fright of costly monitoring solutions

And more!

Deeper Insights with Nagios Business Process Intelligence (BPI)

Implementing Nagios Business Process Intelligence (BPI) can allow you to see the “real” health of critical business processes in your organization. BPI is an advanced host grouping tool that allows you to set dependencies to determine the BPI group state. Join us for a webinar to learn step-by-step how to create BPI groups. The webinar will include a demonstration of BPI in action. The possibilities for what you can do with BPI groups are up to your imagination. Here are some use cases for business process intelligence groups:

• Website health
• WiFi network health in an auditorium
• Monitoring any group of seemingly unrelated devices that make up an important business function

And more!

Level Up Your Automation with Event Handlers

Be the hero of your organization by increasing uptime, automatically fixing problems, and creating powerful third-party integrations all by implementing event handlers! Event handlers are optional system commands (scripts or executables) that are run when a host or service state change occurs. Join us for a webinar to learn step-by-step how to create event handlers. The webinar will include a demonstration of an event handler in action. The possibilities for what you can do with event handlers are near limitless! Here are some examples of how you can use them:

• Automatically restart hosts and services that are down
• Integrate with third-party ticketing systems
• Trigger automated deployment and commissioning

And more!

From Download to Pro: XI Tips That You Should Know

Log monitoring doesn’t have to be complicated! Join us for a webinar on how using a single log monitoring tool to accept all types of logs can reduce the time, money, and energy it takes to monitor your infrastructure. We’ll share use cases about the powerful log monitoring options available in Nagios Log Server, including how to:

• Tune the performance of your Nagios XI instance to monitor more hosts
• Use configuration Wizards to monitor large IT environments
• Easily locate problems within your infrastructure with Nagios XI’s powerful visualizations

And more!

Six Practical Reasons to Monitor Your Log Data

Log monitoring doesn’t have to be complicated! Join us for a webinar on how using a single log monitoring tool to accept all types of logs can reduce the time, money, and energy it takes to monitor your infrastructure. We’ll share use cases about the powerful log monitoring options available in Nagios Log Server, including how to:

• Monitor and receive alerts on things like failed login attempts
• Check historic logs to pinpoint events that led up to a failure in your infrastructure in order to help reduce Mean Time To Resolution (MTTR)
• Send all your log data to one central repository for easier querying of log data

And more!

Unlock the Power of Nagios Cross Platform Agent (NCPA)

Agent-based monitoring doesn’t have to be complicated! Using one flexible and powerful cross-platform agent across many operating systems can reduce the time, money, and energy it takes to monitor your infrastructure. We’ll give an in depth look at the powerful monitoring options available in Nagios Cross Platform Agent to adapt it to your environment including how to:

• Use passive checks to help meet your organization’s security requirements and reduce load on your Nagios XI monitoring server
• View and query the NCPA API via a web interface
• Speed up the deployment of NCPA by using an auto deployment feature

And more!

Time Saving Tips to Spring Clean Your Monitoring

Spring cleaning doesn’t have to stop with your to-do list at home! Cleaning up your infrastructure monitoring can make your days smoother to reduce time, money, and energy spent problem solving issues or dealing with unexpected downtime. We’ll go over a few ways that you can consolidate and organize your monitoring system including how to:

• Organize your monitoring by business process for powerful insights
• Implement parent child dependencies for quicker troubleshooting
• Automate removing failed hosts and services

And more!

Agent vs. Agentless: The Monitoring Showdown

Choosing between an agent or agentless monitoring solution can be difficult. Both agent and agentless options allow you to monitor your most valuable data like disk space, memory or CPU. When determining which option is best for your environment there are a few areas that could pack a punch in your decision making. Join us for the Monitoring Showdown between Agent and Agentless solutions. We’ll be diving into…

• Which solution offers greater ease of use and flexibility to customize your environment
• The WMI changes that could impact your Windows monitoring
• How OpenSSH might be the underdog that changes the game for your monitoring landscape

And more!

5 Ways to Fall in Love with Monitoring

There are countless ways to monitor your organization’s systems every day. With so many ways to monitor, you might be missing a few soon-to-be favorite strategies. Join us February 24th to see how you can love monitoring in new ways with new ideas. In this webinar, we’ll cover these five monitoring strategies:

• Monitor for anomaly detection
• Leverage automation in your monitoring
• Simplify your monitoring by using one software module that can monitor nearly anything
• Utilize flexible deployment to monitor any way you want
• Monitor your infrastructure monitor to increase uptime

We’ll also have a question-and-answer session at the end. We can’t wait to see you there!

3 New Year’s Resolutions For Your IT Team (automation, automation, automation!)

Thu, Jan 13, 2022 1:00 PM – 1:45 PM CST

As you evaluate your IT department goals and strategic initiatives for the new year, you will want to invite your whole IT team to our upcoming webinar on January 13th. We’ll give you practical recommendations and real world examples for how to leverage automation in your IT monitoring approach. You’ll walk away ready to succeed at these 3 New Year’s Resolutions for your IT team:

• Focus on valuable strategic initiatives instead of triage and putting out fires
• Avoid costly incidents by anticipating problems and solving issues before they even occur
• Get the most out of your IT investments by capitalizing on underutilized capabilities

How to Simplify Your Unwieldy IT Ecosystem Using Infrastructure Monitoring

Network infrastructure is becoming increasingly varied and complex. Large and small organizations alike find themselves juggling on-premise infrastructure, business applications from many vendors, and multiple cloud providers. As valuable as all these technologies are, as your IT ecosystem becomes more complicated, it becomes increasingly difficult to manage. A robust infrastructure monitoring strategy is a key component in untangling a complex IT ecosystem. In this webinar, you will learn:

• How an effective monitoring strategy can add value to your IT ecosystem
• The benefits of consolidating your IT monitoring into one source of truth
• How to use monitoring software to bring useful data into and out of many disparate sources