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BusinessProcess

Addon:BusinessProcess
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Description: Two AddOns to Nagios, a very often used Open Source Network Monitoring Tool.
Author: Bernd Stroessenreuther
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Released: 16/03/2009
Latest release version: 0.9.3
OS: Unix/Linux
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Licence: GPL v2
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Website: Project Homepage

Nagios itself can monitor all the components (WebServer, ApplicationServers, DNS-Servers, Mail-Servers, ...) You are running on Your network. It produces nice views on a per component base, which are very useful for administrators. If You need a view showing the state of a whole application (with all there components), install these AddOns. They are useful for the management, Your users or if You need SLA reports.


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How it works

The AddOn Business Process View takes results of the single nagios checks out of NDO (Nagios' database) and builds up aggregated states. How they are associated is described in one or more config files. There is the possibility to make "and" conjuctions, "or" conjunction and other... A business process (as defined by such a formula) can be used as a part of another business process. So You can build up a hirachical structure to describe the state of Your Application. The AddOn Business Impact Analysis allows You to simulate Outages. You can set manually the state of each single component to each state You like and look, how this would impact Your applications.

Nagios Business Process View aggregates results of single nagios checks to a bigger union called business process. This is one application available to the customer. The way You make the conjunctions can be of every type You like, but of course should represent the architecture of Your infrastructure. The conjunctions can be made in different layers, so that You are able to build a tree view. In the top level view all applications or business processes are displayed together with the status information for the whole application (OK, WARNING, CRITICAL or UNKNOWN)


Features

It has two modes:

  • Nagios Business Process View
    it shows the actual state of Your applications
  • Nagios Business Impact Analysis
    this is a simulation mode.
    You can set each of Your components to every stat You like.
    So if You want to know: What would be if my web server would fail now?
    Just klick the state of Your web server an set it to CRITICAL
    Return to the overview page and look, which applications are now in state CRITICAL.


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Screenshots are from the official documentation


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