Nagios Enterprises invites you to attend its annual conference, matching IT professionals from every sector with industry

professionals and Nagios specialists. Featured speakers and Nagios professionals will explore topics and ideas poised to

influence the IT industry in 2015 and beyond.

Enterprises

The 2015 NagiosWorld Conference

September 28, 29, and 30, 2015Crowne Plaza - Riverfront, St. Paul, Minnesota

EnterprisesThe 2015 Nagios World ConferenceSeptember 28, 29, and 30, 2015

Monday, September 28

6:00 p.m. Registration and Welcome Event Begin

10:00 p.m. Registration and Welcome Event Conclude

Tuesday, September 29

7:30 a.m. Registration and Breakfast

9:00 a.m. Keynote

10:00 a.m. Presentations Begin

10:00 a.m. Support Workshop

12:00 p.m. Buffet Style Lunch

1:30 p.m. Developer Meet-Up

5:20 p.m. Presentations Conclude

6:00 p.m. Evening Party at the Landmark Center Begin

7:30 p.m. Nagios MVP Presentation

11:00 p.m. Evening Party Concludes

Wednesday, September 30

7:30 a.m. Registration and Breakfast

9:00 a.m. Presentations Begin

10:00 p.m. Support Workshop 12:00 p.m. Buffet Style Lunch

3:30 p.m. Conference Wrap-Up

Conference Schedule

EnterprisesThe 2015 Nagios World ConferenceSeptember 28, 29, and 30, 2015

KeynoteTuesday, September 29, 9:00 AM - Track OneEthan Galstad, Founder, President, and CTO, Nagios

New developments and future directions for Nagios. Product Development Manager Scott Wilkerson will also join.

How to Monitor a SatelliteTuesday, September 29, 10:00 AM - Track OneThomas Schmainda, Mission Control Center Computer Operations Lead, Boeing

Learn how Nagios Core redefined support of the on-orbit fleet of Boeing satellites and changed the way Mission Operations are performed with the next generation of satellites.

Presentation Topics - Tuesday, September 29

Configuration Automation - Care, Planning, Puppet, & MoreTuesday, September 29, 10:00 AM - Track TwoJohn Sellens, SYONEX, Proprietor

In this session, John will show how some care and forethought in planning your environment, and a few simple tools, can make building and maintaining your monitoring configurations simple and (mostly) automatic.

EnterprisesThe 2015 Nagios World ConferenceSeptember 28, 29, and 30, 2015

Monitoring a Power-based Converged Infrastructure w/ NagiosTuesday, September 29, 11:00 AM - Track OneMarcelo Perazolo, Lead Software Architect, IBM Corporation

In this session, Marcelo will describe how Nagios can be integrated and extended for the monitoring of a typical Power-based converged infrastructure, and how it interfaces with existing element managers to provide a single point of integration for passive and active monitoring purposes.

An Overview of Nagios Solutions and the Value They ProvideTuesday, September 29, 1:30 PM - Track OneShamas Demoret, Sales Tech, Nagios

This presentation will provide a high-level introduction to the various Nagios solutions that are available - including Nagios Core, Nagios XI, Nagios Fusion, Nagios Network Analyzer, and Nagios Incident Manager.

Presentation Topics - Tuesday, September 29

Real Life Experience of Nagios Log ServerTuesday, September 29, 11:00 AM - Track TwoDave Williams, Technical Architect, Atos

This session will detail the green field deployment of Nagios Log Server in a client environment consisting of HP LAN Switches, 3PAR disk storage, HP Blade Chassis with Flex Fabric using VMware, Hyper-V, Exchange & Citrix.

Nagios in the DevOps WorldTuesday, September 29, 1:30 PM - Track TwoMike Merideth, Senior Director of IT, VictorOps

Mike Merideth from VictorOps talks about the challenges of sharing responsibility for monitoring in the DevOps world. Learn several strategies for keeping your configuration correct, consistent, and up-to-date when several people are working on it.

EnterprisesThe 2015 Nagios World ConferenceSeptember 28, 29, and 30, 2015

Presentation Topics - Tuesday, September 29

Writing Custom Nagios PluginsTuesday, September 29, 2:30 PM - Track TwoJanice Singh, Systems Engineer, NASA Ames / CSC

New to Nagios and wanting to expand its use with your own custom plugins? This presentation will show you how to write your own plugins and integrate it into Nagios.

Monitoring Using the Full Power of Nagios XI Enterprise EditionTuesday, September 29, 3:30 PM - Track TwoMarcus Rochelle, Product Support Specialist, Landis+Gyr

This presentation will take a close look at how the Enterprise Edition of Nagios XI is used within Landis+Gyr to monitor systems, applications, and utility networks. You will get a strong view of the full capability and possibilities of Nagios XI when leveraged with open source software products.

Fractal NagiosTuesday, September 29, 2:30 PM - Track OneEric Loyd, CEO, Bitnetix

Learn how Nagios XI can be used to monitor Nagios Log Server (NLS) and Nagios Network Analyzer (NNA), how NLS and NNA can leverage Nagios XI for alerting, and how to use NLS and NNA to monitor each other and Nagios XI and Nagios Core, including remote execution environments.

What to do when Nagios notifications don’t meet your needsTuesday, September 29, 3:30 PM - Track OneLee Myers, System Administrator, National Center for Atmospheric Research

Lee will present how he overcame time period issues, through the use of MK_Livestatus, Pushbullet, and scripts to notify of him of alerts while he is at work. All the user needs to do is execute a command at the start of their shift, and they will receive all their notifications until their shift ends.

EnterprisesThe 2015 Nagios World ConferenceSeptember 28, 29, and 30, 2015

Presentation Topics - Tuesday, September 29

SNMP ExplainedTuesday, September 29, 4:30 PM - Track TwoRob Hassing, IT Consultant, Deltics

How does the SNMP protocol work and how can it be used within Nagios.

Use Nagios to Monitor Your Public CloudTuesday, September 29, 4:30 PM - Track OneMatt Bruzek, Software Engineer, Canonical Ltd.

No debian installer for Nagios 4? No problem! Deploy your public cloud with Juju and you can connect Nagios core services to your Ubuntu instances in the cloud. In this session, Matt will quickly go over the basic concepts of Juju and spend the rest of the time walking through examples of deploying Nagios monitoring solutions.

EnterprisesThe 2015 Nagios World ConferenceSeptember 28, 29, and 30, 2015

Nagios Monitoring of Raspberry PiWednesday, September 30, 9:00 AM - Track OneScott Lee, Cloud Engineer, Amazon Web Services

By combining Nagios XI and Raspberry Pi sensors, this presentation will explore various use cases and how Nagios can enhance hardware applications with alerting and monitoring.

Using Nagios XI as the platform for Monitoring as a ServiceWednesday, September 30, 10:00 AM - Track OneBryan Heden, Solution Architect, Agile Networks

Learn about the trials, troubles, and tribulations Agile Networks faced while converting their Nagios XI instance over to service outside customers.

Presentation Topics - Wednesday, September 30

Nagios XI Best PracticesWednesday, September 30, 9:00 AM - Track TwoTroy Lea, IT Consultant/Developer, Nagios

Best Practices? That’s like asking how long is a piece of string! While every environment is different, there are however a number of configurations, tweaks and methods that can be of great ben-efit for your Nagios XI environment. This talk will cover a variety of Best Practice topics for Nagios XI ranging from flexible object configurations through to back end performance enhancements.

Resilient NotificationsWednesday, September 30, 10:00 AM - Track TwoSean Falzon, Everwatch

Sean will be discussing several approaches to notification types for real world Nagios deployments. This will include a few methods for handling on call rosters, sending SMS from fully visualized data centers, and resilient notifications by integrating with phone systems for voice notifications.

EnterprisesThe 2015 Nagios World ConferenceSeptember 28, 29, and 30, 2015

Nagios Log Server Architecture and OverviewWednesday, September 30, 11:00 AM - Track OneJesse Olson, Support Tech, Nagios

This presentation will provide a high-level introduction to Nagios Log Server.

Revamping Your 10 Year Old Nagios InstallationWednesday, September 30, 1:30 PM - Track OneMike Guthrie, DevOps Engineer, Red Ventures

This presentation is a case study that covers how Red Ventures is attempting to migrate legacy Nagios instances to shiny new installations that leverage the latest technologies and keep the noise under control.

Presentation Topics - Wednesday, September 30

Scaling Across Data Centers using Linux High AvailabilityWednesday, September 30, 11:00 AM - Track TwoJeremy Rust, Sales Engineer, LINBIT

This session will cover how to achieve high availability and disaster recovery on Linux/Unix systems using DRBD9, Linux HA, Pacemaker, and Heartbeat. Integration with Nagios will also be discussed.

Nagios XI Under The HoodWednesday, September 30, 1:30 PM - Track TwoTrevor McDonald, Support Tech, Nagios

What happens when a check is run? What are the parts that move behind the scenes to turn a service check into a notification? In this talk, Trevor will walk through the check process from start to finish, giving an overview of the components involved at each step.

EnterprisesThe 2015 Nagios World ConferenceSeptember 28, 29, and 30, 2015

Nagios Service Check DatabaseWednesday, September 30, 2:30 PM - Track OneMike Weber, President, Cybermontana

A demonstration of a database which provides copy/paste installation and examples of Nagios service checks for SNMP, NCPA, NSCA, NRPE, plugins, etc. for Windows, Linux and network devices. The database also includes Rapid Deployment Modules in the database for applying thousands of checks with copy/paste.

Conference Wrap-UpWednesday, September 30, 3:30 PM - Track OneEthan Galstad, Founder, President, and CTO, Nagios

Conference Wrap-Up.

Presentation Topics - Wednesday, September 30

Debugging Nagios PluginsWednesday, September 30, 2:30 PM - Track TwoJess Portnoy, Packaging Lead & Technical Community Manager, Kaltura

This session will discuss how to debug malfunctioning plugins, show real life situations in which the plugin does not behave as expected and how to troubleshoot and resolve the issue. The session will also cover some basic security best practices and the potential issues that may arise when creating a secured setup.

(Schedule as of June 29, 2015; presentation times and topics subject to change)

EnterprisesThe 2015 Nagios World ConferenceSeptember 28, 29, and 30, 2015

(List as of May 19, 2015; subject to change)

Companies

Agile NetworksAmazon Web ServicesAtosBitnetixBoeingCanonical

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CybermontanaIBMKalturaLandis+GyrLINBIT

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NagiosNASA Ames/CSCRed VenturesSYONEXVictorOps

Company Presentations

EnterprisesThe 2015 Nagios World ConferenceSeptember 28, 29, and 30, 2015

To register for the 2015 Nagios World Conference, please visit:conference.nagios.com/register.

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Registration & Hotel Information

Conference Pass

Included with your conference pass is the welcome event, keynote, access to 25+ sessions, free on-site training, free certification testing, conference meals, evening party event, jumpstart sessions, developer meet-up sessions, conference t-shirt and product demo access.

Hotel Information

The Crowne Plaza - Riverfront, St. Paul11 Kellogg Blvd E, St Paul, MN 55101

Nagios has arranged special discounted rates at The Crowne Plaza Riverfront. To take advantage of the discounted room rates, you must be registered for the conference and book your hotel through the registration site. The Crowne Plaza Riverfront hotel check-in time is 3:00 p.m. and checkout time is 12:00 p.m.

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