Power Up!The Multifaceted Benefits and Capabilities of Nagios

Shamas Demoret

Welcome!

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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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Core VM can graph perf data

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