Nagios XI

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Introduction The Nagios XI package for Hornbill's IT Operations Management (ITOM) contains a administrative operations that allows you to manage your Nagios XI deployment.

Related Articles IT Operations Management Business Process Designer KeySafe

Target Environment Requirements

Script Execution Machine Requirements

• If the script execution policy on the machine executing these operations is set to Restricted, then this will need to be updated to something less restrictive. See the PowerShell Documentation for more information.

KeySafe Configuration

When creating SIS jobs for operations contained within this package, they need to be run on the target machine as a user who has the correct privileges within your environment, and will require an additional KeySafe Key to hold the account credentials to connect to your Nagios XI deployment.

To configure your Target Machine account authentication in KeySafe:

• In the Admin console, navigate to: System > Security > KeySafe;
• Click on + then select Username + Password;
• Give the KeySafe Key a Title (this is the name/identifier for the target machine account as you will see it when creating an IT Automation Job, or adding an IT Automation node to a Business Process or Runbook);
• Optionally add a description;
• Populate the Username field with the domain/local account username for the account being used on the target machine;
• Populate the Password field with the password for the above account;
• Select Create Key to save.

To configure your Nagios XI account authentication in KeySafe:

• In the Admin console, navigate to: System > Security > KeySafe;
• In the Type field, select API Key
• Give the API Key a title (this is the name/identifier for the Dynatrace account as you will see it when using the Integration Call node in your business process);
• Optionally add a description;
• API Key - this should be populated with an API Key that has the rights to perform the operations contained within this package
• API Endpoint - this should be populated with the API Endpoint for your Nagios XI instance. For example: https://yournagiosxiserver/nagiosxi/api/v1
• Click Create Key to save

See screenshots to the right for examples.

Package Operations

The Nagios XI package contains the following operations, than can be used to create ITOM Jobs directly, or included in your Business Processes and/or IT Operations Management Rubooks.

Acknowledgements - Acknowledge Host Problem

This operation can be used to Acknoweledge a Host Problem. See the Nagios XI Documentation for more information on the action and input parameters.

Extra Credentials

This operation requires an extra credential to be provided:

• Credential Reference: credential1
• Credential Keysafe Key Type: API Key

Input Parameters

• HostName (MANDATORY) - The hostname or IP Address of the Host which you want to perform the action on
• Sticky (MANDATORY)
• Notify (MANDATORY)
• Persistent (MANDATORY)
• Author (MANDATORY)
• Comment (MANDATORY)

Output Parameters

• errors - Any errors returned by the operation
• outcome - Outcome of the operation. Can be OK or FAIL
• success - the value of the success response from the Nagios operation

Acknowledgements - Acknowledge Service Problem

This operation can be used to Acknoweledge a Service Problem on a Host. See the Nagios XI Documentation for more information on the action and input parameters.

Extra Credentials

This operation requires an extra credential to be provided:

• Credential Reference: credential1
• Credential Keysafe Key Type: API Key

Input Parameters

• HostName (MANDATORY) - The hostname or IP Address of the Host which you want to perform the action on
• HostName (MANDATORY) - The name of the Service on the above Host which you want to perform the action on
• Sticky (MANDATORY)
• Notify (MANDATORY)
• Persistent (MANDATORY)
• Author (MANDATORY)
• Comment (MANDATORY)

Output Parameters

• errors - Any errors returned by the operation
• outcome - Outcome of the operation. Can be OK or FAIL
• success - the value of the success response from the Nagios operation