1. 10 Minutes to Migrate Nagios to BMC TrueSight Operations Management
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10 Minutes to Migrate Nagios to BMC TrueSight Operations Management
Sentry Software
In this video, I will show you how to quickly and easily migrate from Nagios to BMC TrueSight Operations Management using Monitoring Studio, a configuration module developed by Sentry Software.

2. Why Migrate from Nagios to TrueSight?
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Why Migrate from Nagios to TrueSight?
Your organization is using Nagios because:
It’s simple
It’s free
It has a wide collection of plugins
Its shortcomings prevent you from going further:
Painful configuration
Ungainly interface
No auto-baselining, no root cause analysis, no correlation, no application mapping
Only monitors non-critical areas of your IT
BUT…
DON’T LET NAGIOS BE
YOUR MONITORING SOLUTION BY DEFAULT
Nagios is a popular open-source monitoring solution.
Because it’s simple and free, it is often implemented to monitor non-critical parts of the IT in many organizations.
But Nagios has some serious limitations: a painful configuration, an ungainly interface. It has no auto-baselining, no cause analysis, no correlation, and no application mapping.
To put it simply, it lacks many of the essential features of modern monitoring solutions.

3. Migrate from Nagios to TrueSight, a Costly Operation?
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Migrate from Nagios to TrueSight, a Costly Operation?
Migrating from Nagios to TrueSight used to mean:
Re-define all hosts to be monitored
Re-create with TrueSight standard modules the monitoring done with Nagios plugins
Re-define all alert thresholds
Time-consuming, Costly, Painful… and often incomplete! 1 2
With Monitoring Studio 9.2: Importing your entire Nagios configuration to TrueSight is now a matter of minutes! 3
Until now, migrating from Nagios to TrueSight was a time-consuming, costly, and painful project that many organizations avoided because of the costs involved.
With version 9.2 of Monitoring Studio, the migration from Nagios to BMC TrueSight Operations Management is now child's play.

4. Before the Migration 12/8/2017
Standard
3rd-party
Custom
Nagios Plugins
SSL
NRPE
Nagios Remote Plugin Executor
NRPE
Nagios Remote Plugin Executor
NRPE
Nagios Remote Plugin Executor
This is how your environment should look before migrating. BMC on one side, and Nagios on the other.
Monitored Servers

5. Simple Procedure with Monitoring Studio
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Clean Up
Stop the Nagios server
Stop/uninstall the NRPE agents
Import
Monitoring Studio’s “Import” wizard
Confirm the list of hosts to monitor
Specify the credentials
Monitoring Studio will use the Nagios plugins natively
Install
PATROL Agent
Monitoring Studio KM
On the Nagios server itself
The migration procedure is very simple and requires 3 steps only:
First, you need to install the PATROL Agent and the latest Monitoring Studio package on your Nagios server itself.
Then, you import your Nagios configuration using a user-friendly wizard that will translate your Nagios configuration into a TrueSight configuration. You just need to specify the credentials required to connect to the monitored systems.
And finally, you can stop your Nagios server, and NRPE agents as they are no longer needed.
and that’s it!

6. The Migration
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Nagios Plugins
Standard
3rd-party
Custom
SSH
NRPE
Nagios Remote Plugin Executor
NRPE
Nagios Remote Plugin Executor
NRPE
Nagios Remote Plugin Executor
You may be wondering how it works. So let’s have a closer look at how things happen:
During the migration, Monitoring Studio detects and interprets Nagios Groups, Hosts, and Services that are configured on the Nagios server. It imports them, and creates the corresponding instances in your Monitoring Studio environment.
The objects defined on the Nagios Server will be copied to Monitoring Studio and the same plugins used by the Nagios Server to monitor the objects will be called from Monitoring Studio, including standard plugins, plugins from 3rd party and custom plugins!
Monitored Servers

7. After the Migration 12/8/2017 Standard 3rd-party Custom Nagios Plugins
SSH
Monitored Servers

8. You started simple with Nagios…
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You started simple with Nagios…
Go beyond with Monitoring Studio and TrueSight Operations Management!
Benefit today from:
A smooth transition to TrueSight
A full agent-less monitoring solution
Valuable and powerful new features
You started simple with Nagios, why not go beyond with Monitoring Studio and BMC TrueSight Operations Management?
Don’t wait any longer to migrate and enrich your monitoring experience thanks to the many features available with Monitoring Studio.