Shamas Demoret's presentation on Power Up! The Multifaceted Benefits and Capabilities of Nagios. The presentation was given during the Nagios World Conference North America held Sept 20-Oct 2nd, 2013 in Saint Paul, MN. For more information on the conference (including photos and videos), visit: http://go.nagios.com/nwcna

1. Power Up!
The Multifaceted
Benefits and
Capabilities of
Nagios
Shamas Demoret

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Welcome!Welcome!
Warning: High Level Presentation AheadWarning: High Level Presentation Ahead

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About NagiosAbout Nagios –– The Industry Standard in IT Infrastructure MonitoringThe 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

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Nagios Core DIYNagios 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

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Nagios Exchange

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Nagios Core DIYNagios 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

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Nagios Core Web Display

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Tactical Overview

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Network Map

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Service Detail

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Nagios Core Reports
Next up: Nagios Core Student and Pro

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Nagios Core Student & ProNagios Core Student & Pro
Core Student and Pro
Available as pre-installed VMWare VM's running CentOS 6

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Nagios Core Student & ProNagios Core Student & Pro
Extended Built-in Capabilities
Graphs (PNP4Nagios)
CCM (Core Config Manager)
NagVis
BPI
Nagios Mobile
NSTI
Nagios Vshell

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Nagios Core Student/Pro Comparison

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Graphs
Learn more at http://www.pnp4nagios.org/

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Core Config Manager

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VShell
PHP Web Interface for Nagios Core

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Nagios Mobile
Based on the Teeny Nagios project by Hirose Masaaki

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NSTI
Nagios SNMP Trap Interface
Nagios 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!

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NagVis
Nagios data visualization tool
Learn more at www.nagvis.org

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Business Process Intelligence (BPI)
Alert on health of complex processes as a
whole. Group state and critical member
alerting.
Next up: Nagios XI

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About Nagios XIAbout Nagios XI
Very powerful, even for new users:
Reports
Dashboards and Views
Configuration Wizards & CCM
Auto-Discovery
Bulk Host Cloning & Modification
Configuration Rollback
More!

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Dashboards
Highly customizable infrastructure insight

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ViewsViews
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

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Views Screenshots

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ReportsReports
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

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Executive Summary

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Availability Summary

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Bandwidth Usage

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Alert Histogram

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Event Log
Event Log

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Top Alert Producers

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Capacity Planning

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Visualizations

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Advanced ConfigurationAdvanced Configuration

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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)(webinject.org)
SNMP, SNMP Walk, SNMP Trap
Bulk Host Cloning and Import
Auto-Discovery and More!

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Wizards
Rapidly configure monitoring of common devices with just a few
clicks

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Linux Server Wizard

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Linux Wizard (cont...)

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Auto-DiscoveryAuto-Discovery

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Bulk Host Cloning and ImportBulk Host Cloning and Import
Rapidly configure many like hosts using an existing host as a
template

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Configuration Rollback- 1 up!Configuration Rollback- 1 up!
Roll back to previous good configuration
Easily export .txt of config snapshots

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More!
Integrated DB
Backend API
Easy Multi-Tenancy
Nagvis
Google Maps integration
BPI
Nagios Mobile

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Learn More
www.nagios.org
www.nagios.com
exchange.nagios.org
support.nagios.com/forum

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Questions?
You may also like:
Getting started with Nagios XI, Core, and
Fusion
Getting Started with Nagios Incident Manager
and Nagios Reactor
Thanks for joining me today, enjoy the rest
of the Conference!

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Notes
Core reports on status information, but no perf
data
Core VM can graph perf data