Database Access For Development Purposes

Nagios XI comes as a ready to go monitoring system delivered as a virtual machine (VM). I have spent a bit of time developing Configuration Wizards, Components and Dashlets for Nagios XI and during this time I have needed to look at the backend databases to understand where data is stored and how. I am very much well a graphical user interface (GUI) kind of person, so when it comes to test and development, I will use a GUI if I can. The purpose of this document is to show you how you can access the backend databases from a Windows 7 PC using two different database management applications. NOTE: This is NOT official Nagios Enterprises documentation.