Ethan Galstad's Keynote presentation to kick off the conference.
The presentation was given during the Nagios World Conference North America held Sept 25-28th, 2012 in Saint Paul, MN. For more information on the conference (including photos and videos), visit: http://go.nagios.com/nwcna
4. Technology is great!
Except when it breaks
At the worst time
When you dont expect it
And you werent the first to know
And cant fix it fast enough
And need to find a new job
5. What Nagios Does
Monitors entire IT infrastructure
Identifies problems
Alerts appropriate staff
16. Nagios Mobile
Remote access for XI, Core
Acknowledge problems
Schedule downtime
Disable notifications
17. NSTI
Manage SNMP traps
See unhandled traps
Integrates with XI, Core
18. NRDS
The Problem:
Nagios
How to monitor remote devices?
How to monitor roaming devices?
How to update remote configs?
How to install remote plugins?
Win/Lin/
Mac
19. NRDS
Passive monitoring agent
Nagios
Built on NRDP
Centralized configuration
Automatic plugin deployment
Nagios server is public
Win/Lin
20. NRDS In Nagios XI
Web-based wizard
Easy client installation
Plugins
deployed
from server
Monitoring data sent
passively
22. Nagios Reflector
The Problem:
Nagios
How to monitor remote devices?
How to monitor roaming devices?
Two Firewalls + NAT
Nagios server is private
Win/Lin/
Mac
23. Nagios Reflector
Hosted service
Nagios
Monitor remote machines
Public reflector
Reflector
Punch through firewalls
Supports NRDP + NSCA Win/Lin/
Mac
24. Nagios Reflector In Nagios XI
Register online
Configure client
Run wizard in XI
Select
items to
monitor
25. NPush
The Problem:
How to simplify agent installation?
How to modify remote config?
33. Nagios Reactor - Goals
Make event handlers easier
Web-based configuration
User-definable event chains
Include common tests and actions
Allow for custom tests and actions