Nagios Conference 2012 - Ethan Galstad - Keynote

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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

Technology is Ubiquitous

 It makes our lives easier
 It makes systems work
 It makes business run

Technology is great!

 Except when it breaks
 At the worst time
 When you don’t expect it
 And you weren’t the first to know
 And can’t fix it fast enough
 And need to find a new job

What Nagios Does

 Monitors entire IT infrastructure
 Identifies problems
 Alerts appropriate staff

What Nagios Provides

 Increased uptime
 Faster problem resolution
 Peace of mind

Nagios Core

 Monitoring engine
Nagios Core
 Alerts and notifications
 Extendable Plugins Addons

Nagios XI

 Dashboards
Nagios XI
 Web configuration
Wizards, Components
 Auto-discovery
Nagios Core
 Advanced reports
Plugins Addons
 Easy-to-use

Nagios Fusion

 Central dashboard
Nagios Fusion
 Multiple servers
Nagios XI Nagios Core
 Authentication
Nagios XI Nagios Core
 Reports Nagios XI

Project Development

 700 new projects
 3500 projects
 exchange.nagios.org

Nagios Core 4

 Worker Processes
Nagios Core
 Internal Structure
Worker Worker
 Performance
Worker Worker
 Scalability

Nagios XI 2012

 Bulk management
 Capacity planning
 Scheduled reporting
 Audit logging
 Advanced reporting
 More wizards

Nagios Fusion 2012

 Centralized reports
 New visualizations
 Fused graphs

Nagios Mobile

 Remote access for XI, Core
 Acknowledge problems
 Schedule downtime
 Disable notifications

NSTI

 Manage SNMP traps
 See unhandled traps
 Integrates with XI, Core

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

NRDS

 Passive monitoring agent
Nagios
 Built on NRDP
 Centralized configuration
 Automatic plugin deployment
 Nagios server is public
Win/Lin

NRDS In Nagios XI
 Web-based wizard
 Easy client installation
 Plugins
deployed
from server
 Monitoring data sent
passively

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

Nagios Reflector

 Hosted service
Nagios
 Monitor remote machines
 Public reflector
Reflector
 Punch through firewalls
 Supports NRDP + NSCA Win/Lin/
Mac

Nagios Reflector In Nagios XI

 Register online
 Configure client
 Run wizard in XI
 Select
items to
monitor

NPush

The Problem:
 How to simplify agent installation?
 How to modify remote config?

NPush

 Automatically deploy agents
Nagios
 Customized deployments
 Deploy, configure, go!
 Install, uninstall, reconfigure

Windows

Nagios Incident
Manager
Incident/Issue Management

Nagios Incident Manager
 Lightweight ticketing
system
 Teams and users
 Attach notes, files
 Integration with XI
and Core
 Callback API

Nagios Network
Analyzer
NetFlow and sFlow Monitoring

Nagios Network Analyzer

 Who’s using what?
 NetFlow and sFlow
 Usage graphs
 Custom queries
 Integration with XI
and Core

Nagios Reactor
Event Handler and Workflow
Management

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

Nagios Reactor

 Event chains
 Workflows

 Steps

 Conditions

 True/False
actions

For Attendees

 Your choice of free product license
 go.nagios.com/attendees

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