Nagios monitors your infrastructure. ECM correlates it with everything else.
RightITnow ECM includes a native Nagios connector. Nagios Core and Nagios XI alerts flow directly into ECM's correlation engine — alongside SolarWinds, SCOM, Zabbix, VMware, and CloudWatch — eliminating the manual work of correlating alerts across disconnected monitoring instances.
ECM connects to Nagios — and goes beyond it
RightITnow ECM doesn't replace Nagios. It connects to it — pulling its alerts into a unified correlation engine alongside every other tool in your stack.
Native Nagios connector included
ECM's native Nagios connector ingests alerts from Nagios Core and Nagios XI directly into ECM's correlation engine. If you're running multiple Nagios instances across different infrastructure domains — a common workaround for Nagios scalability limitations — ECM consolidates all of them into a single correlated view, alongside your other tools.
What Nagios alone can't do
Even if you're happy with Nagios as a monitoring tool, these are the gaps that ECM is specifically built to fill.
Multiple disconnected Nagios instances instead of one view
As infrastructure grows, teams spin up additional Nagios instances to handle load — creating fragmented visibility. ECM consolidates alerts from all your Nagios instances into one correlated console, eliminating the manual work of checking each.
Nagios alerts stay in Nagios — isolated from SolarWinds, SCOM, and Zabbix
Nagios monitors its assigned domain well, but has no native mechanism to correlate its alerts with events from your network monitoring, cloud tools, or ITSM platform. ECM bridges these silos automatically.
Inbox overflows with duplicate alerts that are hard to suppress
Gartner Peer Insights users consistently report Nagios generating excessive alert noise — including repeated notifications for already-resolved issues. ECM's deduplication and suppression rules eliminate noise before it reaches your NOC.
Manual text-file configuration doesn't scale with dynamic environments
Adding new checks or modifying monitoring requires manually editing configuration files — a process that is time-consuming and error-prone in fast-changing infrastructure, particularly for teams without deep Nagios expertise.
Alerts fire — but lifecycle management requires manual effort
Nagios generates alerts and can send notifications, but it has no native bidirectional ITSM integration for automatic incident creation, routing, acknowledgement, and closure. ECM provides this automation layer on top of Nagios.
Reporting capabilities haven't kept pace with modern NOC needs
Multiple reviews cite Nagios' reporting as a persistent weakness — particularly for executive dashboards, trend analysis, and SLA reporting across complex hybrid environments. ECM's unified view provides the cross-source reporting Nagios cannot.
RightITnow ECM + Nagios vs. Nagios alone
This isn't about replacing Nagios — it's about what you gain when ECM sits on top of it.
| Capability | ECM + Nagios | Nagios alone |
|---|---|---|
| Cross-system event correlation | ✓ Nagios + SolarWinds + SCOM + Zabbix + more | ✗ Nagios alerts only |
| Native Nagios connector | ✓ Core and XI — alerts ingest automatically | n/a |
| Multi-instance consolidation | ✓ All Nagios instances feed one console | ✗ Each instance is separate |
| Automated deduplication & suppression | ✓ Across all sources | Basic — within Nagios only |
| Bi-directional ITSM integration | ✓ Auto create, route, acknowledge, close | ✗ Notifications only |
| Visual configuration UI | ✓ Drag-and-drop rule builder | ✗ Manual config file editing |
| NOC single pane of glass | ✓ One console for all tools | ✗ Multiple Nagios consoles |
| Cross-domain root cause | ✓ Topology-aware correlation | ✗ Manual investigation required |
What teams say after adding ECM
Real results from organizations that added RightITnow ECM as their cross-system correlation layer.
"We deployed a central event processing console against our existing legacy systems in record time. RightITnow provided a simple, cost-effective licensing model."
"Our NOC now only watches ECM, which has improved response times. We've unified our workflow across technology areas, which reduced administrative overhead."
"Chronic issues that had been long masked became obvious within days, allowing us to dramatically cut down our event volume — before we'd even trained our team."
Connect Nagios to ECM in hours
The native connector is pre-built. Getting Nagios alerts flowing into ECM takes hours, not weeks.
Connect the Nagios connector
ECM's native Nagios connector supports both Nagios Core and Nagios XI. Point it at your Nagios instances and alerts start flowing into ECM immediately — all instances, one feed.
Add your other monitoring tools
Connect SolarWinds, Zabbix, SCOM, VMware, CloudWatch, and more. Each tool's alerts feed into the same ECM correlation engine alongside Nagios.
Configure correlation and suppression rules
Use ECM's visual interface to eliminate duplicate alerts across Nagios instances, suppress noise, and define cross-domain correlation rules — no config file editing required.
Automate the incident lifecycle
ECM automatically creates, routes, acknowledges, and closes incidents in your Service Desk — bidirectionally — when correlated events clear across all sources including Nagios.
Frequently asked questions
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