What is Nagios XI? #
Nagios XI is a network monitoring platform that provides discovery, monitoring, alerting, graphing, and reporting for your entire infrastructure, including servers, operating systems, applications, network devices, websites, hypervisors, cloud servers, and much more. Nagios XI includes a UI that makes configuration quicker and easier.
Why Should You Use the Nagios XI Connector? #
The Nagios XI connector provides visibility into the assets in your environment. You can use this visibility to:
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ensure assets are managed per your security policies
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find vulnerabilities quickly and remediate
How Does This Connector Work? #
Lucidum executes read-only requests to the agios XI REST API and ingests only meta-data about Nagios XI assets. Lucidum does not retrieve any data stored on your assets.
Configuring the Connector in Lucidum #
|
Field |
Description |
Example |
|---|---|---|
|
URL |
The URL for the Nagios XI API. |
 https://lucidum.io/nagiosxi/ |
|
API Key |
Nagios API Key. The API Key is available in the account information page in Nagios. It must have ‘Enable API Access‘ permissions to fetch assets and have access to read hosts and services. |
******************* |
|
Proxy |
If you are using a proxy server to allow this connector to communicate with on-premises devices, enter the IP address: port for the proxy server, usually 192.168.255.6:3128 |
192.168.255.6:3128 |
Source Documentation #
Create an API Key #
https://support.nagios.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=33165
Required Permissions #
‘Enable API Access‘
Read-only for Hosts
Read-only for Services
API Documentation #
https://support.nagios.com/kb/category.php?id=105
https://support.nagios.com/kb/article/nagios-xi-backend-api-176.html
All of the documentation is available inside of the Nagios XI product via the Help menu. In the left pane you will find the section REST API Docs.
