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1. Beautiful
monitoring
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2. Objectives
Realize the importance of monitoring..
The beauty of Nagios

3. Storyboard
Frequently asked questions
Our dependencies
About Monitoring
Introduction to Nagios
Gaining visibility – Reporting etc.
Case studies

4. FAQ!
Visibility
• Compliance
• Accountability
Availability
Performance
Security
• Service deliver
• Service uptime
• Par investment
• KPIs
• No breach
• Tracking/tracing

5. Our dependency
We use…
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Email
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Central storage
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VoIP
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ERP, CRM
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Websites/services
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Databases
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Hardware and other software
Technology is integral

6. The beautiful jive..
Visibility
Availability
Compliance
Security
..through monitoring

7. Umph..how’s that..?
Monitoring reduces “surprises”
Monitoring provides facts for future planning
Monitoring helps prevent downtime
Monitoring is needed for compliance
How can one not agree that..
• Monitoring is a necessity and not a luxury

8. A beautiful perspective

9. Monitoring and admins (or geeks like me)
Gain visibility of networks
Become a happy administrator
Be the boss’s pet – Send out reports before he/she
asks you to
Have a life
• Be aware but not necessarily be there

10. Monitoring and management
Gauge effectiveness of investments
Comply to regulatory
Increase visibility to your operations
Plan for growth, consciously
Monitor SLA of service/service providers

12. Introduction to Nagios
N.A.G.I.O.S -> Nagios Ain't Gonna Insist On Sainthood
Worlds most deployed open source monitoring solution
Winner of several awards and recognitions
Can monitor *anything*, really..!

13. More on Nagios..
Nagios is a framework
Enterprise grade
• Same class to HPOV, Tivoli, etc..
Supports just about anything you have
It's open source
Highly scalable
Easy to use and customize
Built around largely successful apps such as MRTG, MySQL, Apache and surely,
Linux

14. Common misconceptions
Nagios is open source so it monitors open source products only
Nagios is not easy to deploy/manage
It’s better to use tools from <companyA> to monitor
<companyA> products
Open source means open and exploitable
I need a specialized Nagios ecosystem

15. Framework?
Other monitoring solutions…
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It’s a nice house
It will only be like that as
designed by the architects
You can renovate, but cost you
lots of $$$
You have to always go back to
the developer for help
If you wish to do more, you
need to buy a new house

16. Framework?
Nagios
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Make the most beautiful house
You decide how your house
should look like
Renovate, redesign, rebuild
and customize, no additional
cost!
Anyone knows to use a LEGO
set, knows how to support
your house
Need to do more? Don’t need
to buy a new house, just use
the blocks and enjoy…

17. What Nagios can do?
Again, quite a bit, specifically…
• Hardware
• Software
• Event logs
• Any logs
• Clustering support
• Through WMI
• Through scripting (VB, PowerShell, cmd.exe)

18. Just about any system..

19. Integrations
• Environmental devices
• Other NMSes

20. Gaining visibility - Alerting
ALERTS

21. If <event>, then, do this, that…
Send alerts
and more..
Remedy
Something
went wrong

22. Take away..
Nagios is a complete monitoring solution to
• Monitor and to a certain extent manage your Windows
architecture
• Can monitor just about anything else that has an IP address
• Can customize and build any which way you NEED it to work

23. UX with NagiosXI
• Hybrid enterprise monitoring tool
• Award wining and world’s no. 1
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XI is everything Nagios plus more..
XI is complete WebUI GUI
XI is personalization & customizable
XI is programmable

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Everything web
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Configuration
Dashboards
Customization
Etc..
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Wizards driven
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Guided step by step
Make your own wizards
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Extremely cool UIs
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Built-in performance graphs
Dashboards, Reports, Views, Management Web

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Database backend
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No more flat file based
Totally robust, exportable and customizable
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Multi-tenant
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One server, multiple users
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Nagvis ready
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Setup any type of graphical meaningful dashboard, straight off the bat
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Advance dashboard
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Personalized, customized and robust dashboards

26. Features
• In addition to Nagios, here are some of
the highlights of XI
• Available in all versions of XI
• Can be further customized to each
organizational need

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Dashboards
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Provide information to respective personnel
exactly what matters to them

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Views
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Like dashboards, except it loads multiple
pages dynamically

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Multi tenant
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Breakout large teams through a single setup
with smaller management groups
Create and manage individualized level of
views and dashboards
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Helpdesk
Finance
IT core
net
IT servers

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Wizards
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Create checks in minutes!
Build your own (BYO Wizards)

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Wizard list out of the box
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DHCP, DNS (with query), Radius
Email
Environmental monitoring
Exchange
Network generic devices
LDAP
Linux, Windows, Mac, Solaris
SMTP servers
MySQL, MSSQL, Postgres, Oracle
SNMP – Trap, Walk
Switches/Routers/Firewalls
Raw TCP/IP port
Watchguard
URLs, Web Transaction
VMWare
Printers
Custom ones..(e.g. Wizard for Antivirus checks)

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Auto discovery
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Add hosts in one go
Check what OS too..
Schedule adding of new host automatically

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Configuration Manager
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Get down to details and customize more…
Done through WebUI
Import and export functions
Bulk operations

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Nagvis
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Visual Nagios
Monitor what you want, how you want it
Now! With dynamic charts

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Operations Map
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Point in time critical information
Built to mount on walls for easy viewing
Dynamic updates
Customizable with similar concept

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User manager
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Create multiple users
Create different permission for them
Can be used as contact for notification

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Built-in reports
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Executive summaries
Availability
State history
Top Alert producers
Notification reports
Raw event logs
Nagios bandwidth usage
Capacity planning tool
Reports can be printed, exported and scheduled to
run on a periodic basis
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Data visualization
Heatmaps, Cloud, Timeline and Replays
Legacy reports (Nagios
Core)

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Everything Nagios
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What you can do with Nagios you can do it
with XI
Monitor just about anything
Thousands of plugins freely available for use
(exchange.nagios.org)
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It can work together
with an existing Nagios
installation
You can also import config files
You can distribute Nagios to off load XI

39. Scalability
• Manage centrally multiple servers
• Important when you do tens of
thousands of host and services
monitoring?
• Scale also based on geographical
locations and/or distribute load

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Centralization
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Centrally view and manage multiple Nagios
servers (including Nagios Core)
Decentralized management if required
Unlimited scalability
Connects via HTTP(s)
Authentication passthru
Runs on existing servers or separately
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Load distribution
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Use single NagiosXI/NagiosCore backend
Check thousands of hosts
Check tens of thousands of services
Scale as many servers as you like
Distribute across WAN links

42. Case study – University Campus
Over 2000 services monitored on single box
Deployment time 3 months

43. Case study – Telco in SG
Need fast turnover to monitor a last minute project
Deployment time 1 week

44. Case study – Financial Inst.
Complex monitoring of databases (MSSQL/Oracle) and complex business logic built
around Nagios
Deployment time 6 months

45. Nagios XI
nagios has just gotten better…
Thanks
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