Nagios Enterprise Monitoring Server
Virtual Appliance

This is a commercial release. NEMS Linux for Single Board Computers is free to download and use. The Virtual Appliance however is a commercial build for business datacentres, and is only available on a subscription basis, or as a perk to those who support NEMS Linux on Patreon. An active subscription is required in order to operate the Nagios Enterprise Monitoring Server Virtual Appliance. Your ongoing support helps fund the development of NEMS Linux. If you are looking to obtain NEMS Linux for free, please check out one of the popular releases for Single Board Computers.

Current Version: 1.6

Available Releases

  • NEMS OVA (Open Virtual Appliance)
    Can be easily deployed on virtualization hypervisors such as VMware ESXi, vSphere, Player or Workstation or Oracle VirtualBox. The OVA package contains the entire virtual appliance and is ready to import and boot.
  • NEMS VHD (Virtual Hard Disk)
    Can be used to deploy NEMS Linux on Microsoft Hyper-V.
  • NEMS QCOW2 (QEMU Copy-On-Write)
    Can be used to deploy NEMS Linux on QEMU, KVM, Proxmox VE, and other hypervisors that support the QCOW2 format.

Host Requirements

  • VT-x/AMD-V capable CPU with feature enabled in BIOS/UEFI
  • Minimum 6 GB free RAM
  • 100 GB hard disk space

Guest Specifications

  • 64-Bit
  • 80 GB Virtual Hard Disk (Dynamic)
  • 4 GB RAM
  • 80% Execution Cap

Deployment Notes

  • Before booting, you must configure your virtual Network Interface to use your actual LAN in Bridged mode.
  • While configuring your virtual Network Interface, you must generate a new MAC address for the virtual NIC. Record your virtual MAC address somewhere safe. Do not change your MAC address after initializing NEMS. Doing so would result in your HWID changing, which will disassociate your Virtual Appliance with NEMS Cloud Services.
  • x86 Virtualization must be available and enabled on your physical CPU in order to boot the Virtual Appliance. This is found in your host machine's BIOS/UEFI settings and will be called VT-x (Intel) or AMD-V (AMD), or something similar such as “Virtualization Extensions”.

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