Hardware and software requirements for the Splunk Add-on for Nagios Core

Platform requirements

The Splunk Add-on for Nagios Core is supported on Linux only.

Nagios requirements

The Splunk Add-on for Nagios Core requires Nagios Core 4.3.4, 4.4.5, or 4.4.6.

If you want to monitor NDOUtils data, you must:

• have NDOUtils installed on your Nagios instance
• have an account with read privileges on the MySQL database of NDOUtils
• have Splunk DB Connect v3.1.X or higher installed on the heavy forwarders responsible for data collection.

Splunk platform requirements

Because this add-on runs on the Splunk platform, all of the system requirements apply for the Splunk software that you use to run this add-on.

• For Splunk Enterprise system requirements, see System Requirements in the Splunk Enterprise Installation Manual.
• If you are managing on-premises forwarders to get data into Splunk Cloud, see System Requirements in the Splunk Enterprise Installation Manual, which includes information about forwarders.