Power Up!The Multifaceted Benefits and Capabilities of Nagios
Shamas Demoret
Welcome!
Warning: High Level Presentation Ahead
About Nagios The Industry Standard in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
Awesome
Comprehensive Monitoring, Alerting, Graphing, and Reporting Capabilities
Flexible
Part of an active, thriving global community
Extendable
Widely Used Worldwide
Time Tested, Admin Approved (since 1999!)
Powerful
Available as Core DIY, Student and Pro VM's, and Nagios XI
Nagios Core DIY
Open source GPLv2
Monitoring and Alerting Engine
Can be installed on just about any popular Linux build
Configured with flat text files on CLI
Basic web display built-in
Thousands of projects on the Nagios Exchange community site that can be used to extend Core capabilities
Nagios Exchange
Nagios Core DIY
Small, Fast, Reliable, Maneuverable
Can monitor across networks just as well as extended options
Can monitor just about anything
State History Reports
Powerful for experienced users, can be challenging for people new to Nagios, or without much Linux experience.
Extendable
Nagios Core Web Display
Tactical Overview
Network Map
Service Detail
Nagios Core Reports
Next up: Nagios Core Student and Pro
Nagios Core Student & Pro
Core Student and Pro Available as pre-installed VMWare VM's running CentOS 6
Nagios Core Student & Pro
Extended Built-in Capabilities
Graphs (PNP4Nagios)
CCM (Core Config Manager)
NagVis
BPI
Nagios Mobile
NSTI
Nagios Vshell
Nagios Core Student/Pro Comparison
Graphs
Learn more at http://www.pnp4nagios.org/
Core Config Manager
VShell
PHP Web Interface for Nagios Core
Nagios Mobile
Based on the Teeny Nagios project by Hirose Masaaki
NSTI
Nagios SNMP Trap InterfaceNagios SNMP Trap Interface is a PHP frontend for the MySQL or PostgresSQL backend that SNMPTT creates. Enables users to view, filter, search for, delete, and archive SNMP results. No more looking at logs!
NagVis
Nagios data visualization tool
Learn more at www.nagvis.org
Business Process Intelligence (BPI)
Alert on health of complex processes as a whole. Group state and critical member alerting.
Next up: Nagios XI
About Nagios XI
Very powerful, even for new users:Reports
Dashboards and Views
Configuration Wizards & CCM
Auto-Discovery
Bulk Host Cloning & Modification
Configuration Rollback
More!
Dashboards
Highly customizable infrastructure insight
Views
Tactical Overview
Open Problems
Host Detail
Service Detail
Host Group Overview
Any URL, In XI or External
Can be rotated at custom speed
Perfect for NOC screen
Views Screenshots
Reports
Many different types
Customizable date ranges
Leverage historical performance status data
Exportable as CSV and/or PDF
Can be emailed directly from XI
Scheduled Delivery
Executive Summary
Availability Summary
Bandwidth Usage
Alert Histogram
Event Log
Event Log
Top Alert Producers
Capacity Planning
Visualizations
Advanced Configuration
Available Wizards
Windows Desktop, Server, Exchange
Linux Server, Linux SNMP
Mac OSX
AIX, Solaris
VMWare
Printers
Mailservers, Email Deliver
Oracle, MSSQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL
Website, Synthetic Transaction (webinject.org)
SNMP, SNMP Walk, SNMP Trap
Bulk Host Cloning and Import
Auto-Discovery and More!
Wizards
Rapidly configure monitoring of common devices with just a few clicks
Linux Server Wizard
Linux Wizard (cont...)
Auto-Discovery
Bulk Host Cloning and Import
Rapidly configure many like hosts using an existing host as a template
Configuration Rollback- 1 up!
Roll back to previous good configuration
Easily export .txt of config snapshots
More!
Integrated DB
Backend API
Easy Multi-Tenancy
Nagvis
Google Maps integration
BPI
Nagios Mobile
Learn More
www.nagios.org
www.nagios.com
exchange.nagios.org
support.nagios.com/forum
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Notes
Core reports on status information, but no perf data
Core VM can graph perf data
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