The document discusses the commercial adoption and community innovation surrounding Nagios, a monitoring solution known for its immediate alerting and customizable architecture. Key features include the release of Nagios XI, integrated support, and community-developed plugins available on Nagios Exchange. The document also highlights challenges such as developer turnover and introduces new methods for passive results transmission and distributed monitoring techniques.

1. Monitoring With Nagios
Commercial Adoption and Community Innovation
Ethan Galstad

2. Commercial Adoption

3. The Challenge
IT systems are:
Critical
Pervasive
Complex
Changing
Breakable
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4. Value Proposition
Nagios provides:
Immediate alerting
Root cause diagnostic information
Historical reports
Capacity planning
Extendable architecture
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5. Selection Factors
Reasons for selecting Nagios:
Established solution
Free addons
Flexibility
Customizability
Support options
Cost
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6. Commercial Options
Reasons for selecting a commercial solution:
Faster deployment time
Integrated solutions
Multi-tiered administration
Additional features
Bundled support
Single vendor
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7. Our First Commercial Solution
Nagios XI:
Integrated graphing
User administration
Configuration wizards
Dashboards
Bundled support
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8. Commercial Customers
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9. Community Happenings

10. Developers
Core developers
Nagios Core
Nagios Plugins
NDOUtils
Community developers
Plugins
Addons
UI
Configuration
Other
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11. Community Developed Addons
Nagios Exchange
exchange.nagios.org
1,900 submissions
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12. Nagios Exchange Highlights
MoLog
Log Monitoring
Standalone application
Central log support
Sends passive alerts on matches
http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/Log-Files/MoLog/details
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13. Nagios Exchange Highlights
nagmap
Google Maps integration
Pulls topo, status info
from Nagios
http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Addons/Maps-and-Diagrams/nagmap/details
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14. Nagios Exchange Highlights
MNTOS
High-level dashboard
Multiple Nagios servers
http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Addons/Frontends-(GUIs-and-CLIs)/Web-Interfaces/
MNTOS/details
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15. Development Challenges
Developer turnover
Long-term involvement
Other priorities
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16. Nagios Seedcamp
Innovation contest
New development for Nagios
st
Submissions open June 1
Cash prizes up to $1,000 USD
www.nagios.org/seedcamp
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17. What We're Working On

18. Passive Results Transmission
Current methods:
NSCA
NSCAWeb
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19. Passive Results Transmission
New method:
HTTP(S)
XML
Authorization
Plugin architecture
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20. Distributed Monitoring
Current methods:
NSCA / Passive checks
DNX
Merlin
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21. Distributed Monitoring
New method:
Centralized dashboard
Distributed nodes do all the work
Distributed configuration (central optional)
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22. Questions?