Dave Th presentation on Nagios in the datacenter. The presentation was given during the Nagios World Conference North America held Sept 27-29th, 2011 in Saint Paul, MN. For more information on the conference (including photos and videos), visit: http://go.nagios.com/nwcna

1. Know it’s Broke Before Your Customers Do. David Thomas [email_address]

3. A little about me, and what I do. David Thomas Director of Information Technology and Emergency Communications Sandoval County, State of New Mexico Over 20 years in the IT field, certified ITIL, Six Sigma, HDI and a bunch of other stuff.

7. Sandoval County Network 2011 Pretty typical midsize network

8. Here is where it get’s interesting! 2011 Talk about terrain we start on a hill shoot across the river valley back over the river valley up to a mountain peak to get to Cuba, NM 75 miles from Bernalillo, NM where we started. Not much of a chose if we are to get high speed networks to the far reaches of the county.

13. Smoke plumes from my backyard. 2011 This image showing the Las Conchas wildfire raging in the Jemez Mountains of the Santa Fe National Forest in north-central New Mexico the was taken by a crew member aboard the ISS on June 27 Residences: 63 destroyed Outbuildings: 49 destroyed; 2 damaged Injuries to Date: 15 Size: 156,593 acres

15. Nagios played a vital roll: 2011 Know it’s Broke Before Your Customers Do. Or If it’s frozen or burning down Use advanced monitoring tools to help Save lives and property. David Thomas [email_address] Nagios played a vital roll and will be a tool we use time and again in emergency situations and the day-to-day operations of Sandoval County, NM