Nagios Consulting Implementation and Maintenance

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Company Background

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• Headquarters in US

• International Customer

Base

• IT Managed Services

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Altnix Portfolio

Managed

Hosting

Monitoring

Solutions

Open

Source

Business

Solutions


Monitoring Solutions

On-Premise Monitoring

Monitoring as Service (MaaS)

Cloud Monitoring

Consulting

Implementations

Customizations

24x7 Monitoring Desk


Monitoring Platform Expertise


NUMBER ONE IT INFRA

MONITORING TOOL


Why Number One?

• End to End Infrastructure Monitoring

– Network, Servers, Databases, Applications

• Extensible with Plug-ins

• APIs availability for 3rd Party integration

• Scalable

• Customizable


NAGIOS OVERVIEW


Nagios Family

Nagios Core

• Open Source

• Less Features

Nagios XI

• Enterprise Grade

• Friendly GUI

• More Features

Fusion

• For Large Deployments

• Distributed Monitoring

Network Analyzer

• Network Traffic

• Reports and Dashboard

Log Server

• Log Collection

• Log Query and Reports

Incident Manager

• Incidents with Tickets

• Report around Tickets


Nagios XI - Overview

Enterprise Grade Monitoring Tool

Open Source Software

Active Developer Community

Growing Eco-System of Partners


Awards and Recognition

Nagios is the Industry Standard in IT Infrastructure

Monitoring


Customizable Dashboards

Performance Graphing

Per-User Customization

Configuration Wizards

Advanced Configuration GUI

Auto-Discovery

Visualizations

Enhanced Reports

Feature Set


Tactical Overview


Host and Services


Logical Device Groups


BB Map

Two Dimensional Summay or Hosts versus Services


Graphs and Charts


Reports


Alerts Behavior


Alerts Histogram


Alert Heatmap

“hotness” of

devices and

services related

issues over time


Network Status Map


Notifications


Email Alerts


Issue Escalations


NagVis Dashboard


Graph Explorer

•All Graphs in One Place

•Filter by Devices and Services and Grouping

•More interactive Charts, Better Color Coding


Bandwidth Usage Report

• Bandwith Usage Reports for better insight into

network loads


Capacity Planning

Use Historical Data and Extrapolate to Future


Audit Logs

Which user made what changes to Nagios?


3RD PARTY TOOL

INTEGRATIONS

(WILL NEED CUSTOMIZATION AND SCRIPTING)


THIRD PARTY INTEGRATION• Nagios provides backend APIs for 3rd party

integration

• Example:

– Ticketing Systems (OTRS, RT, Unicenter)

– Reporting Tools (Cacti, Ganglia)

– Log Management Tools (Splunk)

These are complex integrations that can be

handled later if required


WHAT IF I NEED MORE

FEATURES?


• Plug-ins and Add-Ons

• Script Based Backend (Perl, C etc)

• Hence Additional Modules can be integrated into

Nagios

Extensible Architecture

You can Write your own Modules as Add-On to Nagios


• Nagios is Open Source

• Developer Community around Nagios

• Release code on Nagios Exchange

• Most Plug-In modules are free, some are

licensed

Nagios Exchange

http://exchange.nagios.org

http://exchange.nagios.org/


Plug-Ins Sample

Clustering and High-Availability

Databases Grid ComputingJava

Applications and Servers

Log FilesNetwork and

Systems Management

Network Connections,

Stats and Bandwidth

Network Protocols

Operating Systems

Security Software


Editions – Comparison 1Features Standard Enterprise BenefitConfiguration Rollback

Yes Yes

Allows administrators to easily recover from

configuration errors by rolling back to

known good snapshots.

New wizards and

componentsYes Yes

New wizards and components add

additional functionality and are

automatically installed and upgraded with

each new release.

Tools menu

Yes Yes

Allows users to integrate custom and 3rd-

party applications directly into the XI

interface to increase productivity.

Bandwidth report

Yes Yes

Provides detailed daily, monthly, quarterly,

and yearly bandwidth reports for routers

and switches.

Executive summary

report Yes Yes

Provides management, administrators, and

decision-makers with at-a-glance visibility

into recent alerts and activity.

Heartbeat monitoring

Yes Yes

Provides essential monitoring of critical

hosts and applications on remote

machines.


Features Standard Enterprise BenefitCustom action URLs

Yes YesProvides users with ability to add

customized links to each host and

service.

NOC screens

Yes Yes

Provides at-a-glance overview of IT

operations from a single screen.

Host rename tool

Yes YesAllows administrators to quickly and

efficiently rename hosts and retain

historical performance and alert data.

Emailed reports

Yes YesAllows users to quickly email reports to

themselves, team members, and other

decision makers.

Enhanced

Configuration GUI Yes YesImproved GUI for monitoring

configuration makes complex tasks

easier.

Mobile InterfaceYes Yes

Provides compact, intuitive interface for

mobile phones and devices.

Editions – Comparison 2


Features Standard Enterprise BenefitCustom Host and

Service Actions

Yes Yes

Allows administrators to define

commands and actions that are readily

available to user for troubleshooting and

fixing problems, opening trouble tickets,

and more.

Capacity planning

reportYes

Provides trending analysis and capacity

planning for predicting future upgrade

requirements.

Web-based server

console access YesProvides fast, web-based access to the

XI server console for performing

upgrades and maintenance.

Advanced business

process monitoringYes

Provides advanced reporting of critical

business processes with automatic group

synchronization, advanced grouping

logic, and advanced permissions.

Scheduled reports

Yes

Provides regularly scheduled reports to

be sent to decision makers,

management, and administrators via

email.



Features Standard Enterprise BenefitScheduled pages

Yes

Allows users to schedule any XI web

page to be delivered via email as PDF

attachments on a scheduled basis. Great

for sending dashboards, custom screens,

and more.

Bulk modification tool

Yes

Allows administrators to quickly modify

attributes of thousands of hosts and

services in a few simple steps.

Bulk notification

settings tool YesAllows administrators to quickly deploy

notification settings to users in a few

simple steps.

Audit Logging

YesProvides an audit trail of changes and

modifications to ensure policy

compliance.

Improved

Autodiscovery YesProvides easy integration with bulk

monitoring wizard for rapid monitoring of

newly discovered devices.



Features Standard Enterprise BenefitRemote Machine

Monitoring- Yes

Provides easy to use monitoring of

remote machines and devices on

external networks without firewall

modifications.

Escalation Wizard

- Yes

Allows users to easily create notification

escalation policies.



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