Monitoring With NagiosCommercial Adoption and Community Innovation

Ethan Galstad

Commercial Adoption

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The Challenge

IT systems are:CriticalPervasiveComplexChangingBreakable

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Value Proposition

Nagios provides:Immediate alertingRoot cause diagnostic informationHistorical reportsCapacity planningExtendable architecture

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Selection Factors

Reasons for selecting Nagios:Established solutionFree addonsFlexibilityCustomizabilitySupport optionsCost

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Commercial Options

Reasons for selecting a commercial solution:Faster deployment timeIntegrated solutionsMulti-tiered administrationAdditional featuresBundled supportSingle vendor

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Our First Commercial Solution

Nagios XI:Integrated graphingUser administrationConfiguration wizardsDashboardsBundled support

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Commercial Customers

Community Happenings

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Developers

Core developersNagios CoreNagios PluginsNDOUtils

Community developersPluginsAddons

UIConfigurationOther

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Community Developed Addons

Nagios Exchangeexchange.nagios.org1,900 submissions

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Nagios Exchange Highlights

MoLogLog MonitoringStandalone applicationCentral log supportSends passive alerts on matches

http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/Log-Files/MoLog/details

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Nagios Exchange Highlights

nagmapGoogle Maps integrationPulls topo, status info

from Nagios

http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Addons/Maps-and-Diagrams/nagmap/details

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Nagios Exchange Highlights

MNTOSHigh-level dashboardMultiple Nagios servers

http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Addons/Frontends-(GUIs-and-CLIs)/Web-Interfaces/MNTOS/details

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Development Challenges

Developer turnoverLong-term involvementOther priorities

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Nagios Seedcamp

Innovation contestNew development for NagiosSubmissions open June 1st Cash prizes up to $1,000 USDwww.nagios.org/seedcamp

What We're Working On

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Passive Results Transmission

Current methods:NSCANSCAWeb

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Passive Results Transmission

New method:HTTP(S)XMLAuthorizationPlugin architecture

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Distributed Monitoring

Current methods:NSCA / Passive checksDNXMerlin

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Distributed Monitoring

New method:Centralized dashboardDistributed nodes do all the workDistributed configuration (central optional)

Questions?