introduction to nagios by ethan galstad

7/22/2019 INtroduction to Nagios by Ethan Galstad

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Welcome!Nagios World Conference 2012


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What Is Nagios?


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Technology is Ubiquitous

It makes our lives easier

It makes systems work

It makes business run


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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


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What Nagios Does

Monitors entire IT infrastructure

Identifies problems

Alerts appropriate staff


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What Nagios Provides

Increased uptime

Faster problem resolution

Peace of mind


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Nagios

Monitoring Solutions


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Nagios Core

Monitoring engine

Alerts and notifications

Extendable

Nagios Core

Plugins Addons


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Nagios XI

Dashboards

Web configuration

Auto-discovery

Advanced reports

Easy-to-use

Wizards, Components

Nagios Core

Plugins Addons

Nagios XI


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Nagios Fusion

Central dashboard

Multiple servers

Authentication

Reports

Nagios Fusion

Nagios XI

Nagios XI

Nagios XI

Nagios Core

Nagios Core


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Recent Developments


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Project Development

700 new projects

3500 projects

exchange.nagios.org


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Nagios Core 4

Worker Processes

Internal Structure

Performance

Scalability

Nagios Core

Worker

Worker

Worker

Worker


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Nagios XI 2012

Bulk management

Capacity planning

Scheduled reporting

Audit logging

Advanced reporting

More wizards


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Nagios Fusion 2012

Centralized reports

New visualizations

Fused graphs


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Nagios Mobile

Remote access for XI, Core

Acknowledge problems

Schedule downtime

Disable notifications


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NSTI

Manage SNMP traps

See unhandled traps

Integrates with XI, Core


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NRDS

The Problem:

How to monitor remote devices?

How to monitor roaming devices?How to update remote configs?

How to install remote plugins?

Nagios

Win/Lin/Mac


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NRDS

Passive monitoring agent

Built on NRDP

Centralized configuration

Automatic plugin deployment

Nagios server is public

Nagios

Win/Lin


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NRDS In Nagios XI

Web-based wizard

Easy client installation

Plugins deployed

from server

Monitoring data sent

passively


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Upcoming Solutions


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Nagios Reflector

The Problem:

How to monitor remote devices?

How to monitor roaming devices?Two Firewalls + NAT

Nagios server is private

Nagios

Win/Lin/Mac


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Reflector

Nagios Reflector

Hosted service

Monitor remote machines

Public reflector

Punch through firewalls

Supports NRDP + NSCA

Nagios

Win/Lin/Mac


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Nagios Reflector In Nagios XI

Register online

Configure client

Run wizard in XI

Select items to

monitor


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NPush

The Problem:

How to simplify agent installation?

How to modify remote config?


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NPush

Automatically deploy agents

Customized deployments

Deploy, configure, go!

Install, uninstall, reconfigure

Nagios

Windows


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New Products Under

Development


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Nagios Incident

ManagerIncident/Issue Management


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Nagios Incident Manager

Lightweight ticketingsystem

Teams and users

Attach notes, files

Integration with XIand Core

Callback API


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Nagios Network

AnalyzerNetFlow and sFlow Monitoring


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Nagios Network Analyzer

Whos using what?

NetFlow and sFlow

Usage graphs

Custom queries

Integration with XI

and Core


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Nagios ReactorEvent Handler and Workflow

Management


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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


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Nagios Reactor - Event Chains


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Nagios Reactor

Event chains

Workflows

Steps

Conditions

True/False

actions


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One More Thing


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For Attendees

Your choice of free product license

go.nagios.com/attendees


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Thank You

-Enjoy The Conference!

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