
First 1 price per monitoring instance or installation. So to any prospect buyer (like me) I will not purchase the product, because for all I care tomorrow they change their 100 nodes to 100 sensors instead !!! It seems this is where they are going. Its not an optional maintenance, but it seems its required. Not only they doubled in price but they limited it to 100 hosts !!! And now in their Enterprise edition they force the annual plan. NDOUtils for monitoring engine database backendĮxactly, and even while you still may consider the new price affordable for your organization this does not speak well of the company behind Nagios products.MRTG with RRDTool for bandwidth monitoring.Nagios XI foundation cores is built on top of the following components:
Nagios XI also has web configuration interface that allows to configure the Nagios Core. Adding new equipments to monitor is done through the web based wizards.
Multiple rotating views can be customized by the users. Dynamic dashboard provides high level status of infrastructure. In-built graphing capability based on RRD. User specific views enforce that users see the status of the equipments they are authorized to view. Nagios users can customize their own preferred view of nagios. Nagios XI has enhanced AJAX based user interface. You need to purchase annual maintenance to receive future major release of the Nagios XI. Nagios XI “Annual Maintenance” is $325. However, if you want peace of mind, you can purchase Nagios Core basic annual support for $2,495.
If you have in-house IT staffs, you don’t need to purchase support for the free Nagios Core.
The free Nagios Core is very easy to install, configure and maintain. This is perpetual license - Once you’ve purchased the software, use it as long as you want without any additional license fees. Nagios XI is $1,295 (to monitor unlimited number of hosts). Subscribe to our articles and don’t miss any future Nagios XI step-by-step tutorials. We’ll be posting several Nagios XI tutorials in the upcoming weeks. Thanks for visiting this article from the Nagios newsletter.