NagiosQL is one of the first and still active webbased Open Source Nagios Administration Tool for Nagios. QL offers an easy, but complex Webinterface with a MySQL Database in the background to store all the Nagios configuration files. The scope of NagiosQL is to be as close to the Nagios specifications as possbile. With the upcoming 3.0 release (we are currently in a closed beta stage) we will introduce several new features and of course Nagios 3 compatiblity. We will go through the most important features and news about the release. For everyone interested we will provide all attendees with the current beta version one month before we go live with the final release.

1. NAGIOSQL
WEB BASED NAGIOS
ADMINISTRATION
NETWAYS Nagios Conference 2008
Rouven Homann
NagiosQL
Web based Nagios Administration
www.nagiosql.org

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NagiosQL Agenda
NagiosQL
Web based Nagios Administration
www.nagiosql.org
 Project Summary
 Overview
 Team
 Statistics
 About NagiosQL
 Live Demonstration of the current beta
 Q&A

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Project Summary:
Overview
NagiosQL
Web based Nagios Administration
www.nagiosql.org
 Web based Nagios Configuration Tool
 Very close to Nagios
 Steady Development
 NagiosQL was registered at Sourceforge in 2005
 Project founder and still main developer is Martin Willisegger from Switzerland
 Well-Established Environment
 PHP 4.x and above
 MySQL 4.x and above
 100% free
 New BSD License
 No hybrid
 Current stable version is 2.0.2 (from April 2008)
 Packages for Debian, SuSE and Centos available

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Project Summary:
Team
NagiosQL
Web based Nagios Administration
www.nagiosql.org
 A growing team
 2 Developer (since 2005)
 1 Designer/CSS (started 2008)
 6 Translator (started 2008)
 3 Package Maintainer (started 2007)
 SuSE
 SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (SLES10)
 openSuSE 10.2, 10.3 and 11.0
 Debian
 Centos 5.2

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Project Summary:
Statistics
NagiosQL
Web based Nagios Administration
www.nagiosql.org
 Statistics
 ~37.000 lines of source code
 ~480.000 USD costs [by ohloh.net]
 ~20.000 downloads
 Currently 800-900 downloads per month (increasing)

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NagiosQL Agenda
NagiosQL
Web based Nagios Administration
www.nagiosql.org
 Project Summary
 About NagiosQL
 Current Features
 Facts & Features of QL3
 Domain Support (in detail)
 Internationalization (in detail)
 Support
 Live Demonstration of the current beta
 Q&A

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NagiosQL
NagiosQL
Web based Nagios Administration
www.nagiosql.org
About NagiosQL
(please don’t snore if you already know the current version)

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NagiosQL:
Current Features
NagiosQL
Web based Nagios Administration
www.nagiosql.org
 Main features
 Create, delete, modify and copy settings
 Create and export configuration files
 Nagios 2.x Format
 Nagios 3.x Compatible
 Create and download configuration files
 Consistency checks
 Syntax verification

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NagiosQL:
Current Features
NagiosQL
Web based Nagios Administration
www.nagiosql.org
 More features
 User management
 Instant activation of new configuration files
 English and German translation
 Easy configuration import
 Import host & service templates
 Auto backup configuration files

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NagiosQL:
That’s it
NagiosQL
Web based Nagios Administration
www.nagiosql.org
 Live Demo at http://www.nagiosql.org

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NagiosQL
NagiosQL
Web based Nagios Administration
www.nagiosql.org
NagiosQL 3.x
Facts and Features
(no responsibility is taken for the correctness of the following information)

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NagiosQL 3:
Facts & Features
NagiosQL
Web based Nagios Administration
www.nagiosql.org
 Nagios 3.x Support
 Nagios 2.x will be supported as well
 Domain Support
 Maintaining different Nagios Installations by one
centralized NagiosQL
 Template Support
 Create and manage Host, Service and Contact
Templates
 Inheritance of multiple templates

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NagiosQL 3:
Domain Support
NagiosQL
Web based Nagios Administration
www.nagiosql.org
 Domain support
 Centralized NagiosQL
 Nagios 2.x/3.x
supported
 More than 100 different
installations supported
 Remote Support by FTP
and Command CGI
Interface

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NagiosQL 3:
Facts & Features
NagiosQL
Web based Nagios Administration
www.nagiosql.org
 Search- & Sort functionality
 Filter host and service entries
 Extended Multilanguage Support
 Starting with 8 languages
 Easy Implementation of new languages
 Extended Authentication
 Apache Basic Authentication
 NagiosQL Authentication

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NagiosQL 3:
Internationalization
NagiosQL
Web based Nagios Administration
www.nagiosql.org
 Native Language Support API
 php-gettext based upon GNU gettext Framework
 NagiosQL 3.0.0 will be released in 8 languages
 Adding new languages is very easy and does not
involve any PHP knowledge
English
German
Italian
Spanish (Argentina)
French
Russian
Polish
Chinese (simplified)

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NagiosQL 3:
Facts & Features
NagiosQL
Web based Nagios Administration
www.nagiosql.org
 Installation Wizard
 New Installations
 Upgrades from NagiosQL 2.x
 Integrated Help system
 Installation Wizard
 Application
 Extended Logbook
 Filter and Search Functionality
 IP-Addresses

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NagiosQL 3:
Facts & Features
NagiosQL
Web based Nagios Administration
www.nagiosql.org
 Redesign
 YUI (Yahoo! Interface Library) Framework
 Only parts included
 DOM, DHTML, AJAX
 Overlib library in Installation Wizard
 Many many more small adjustments

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NagiosQL 3:
Support
NagiosQL
Web based Nagios Administration
www.nagiosql.org
 Support offered by the Project team
 Forum at our website (for free)
 Bug and feature tracker (for free)
 High Priority Support (after decent donation)
 Special feature development (on request)

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NagiosQL 3:
Support
NagiosQL
Web based Nagios Administration
www.nagiosql.org
 Professional Support by the cimt ag
 Special feature development
 Interface development (e.g. with Inventory Software)
 Immediate bug fixing

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NagiosQL
NagiosQL
Web based Nagios Administration
www.nagiosql.org
NagiosQL 3.x
Live Demonstration

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NagiosQL
NagiosQL
Web based Nagios Administration
www.nagiosql.org
 Conference Attendees Beta Test
 Available only for attendees of the conference
 Communication by private Mailing list
 Bugs should be reported to our Bugtracker
 Feedback is highly appreciated
If you like to join this special beta, please let me know!

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Q&A
NagiosQL
Web based Nagios Administration
www.nagiosql.org
Questions?