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Beautiful monitoring

Objectives

Realize the importance of monitoring..

The beauty of Nagios

Storyboard

Frequently asked questions

Our dependencies

About Monitoring

Introduction to Nagios

Gaining visibility – Reporting etc.

Case studies

FAQ!Visibilit

y• Compliance• Accountability

Availability

• Service deliver• Service uptime

Performance

• Par investment

• KPIs

Security• No breach• Tracking/

tracing

Our dependency

We use…

• Email

• Central storage

• VoIP

• ERP, CRM

• Websites/services

• Databases

• Hardware and other software

Technology is integral

The beautiful jive..

Visibility

Compliance

Security

Availability

..through monitoring

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

A beautiful perspective

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

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

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..!

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

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

Framework?

Other monitoring solutions…

• 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

Framework?

Nagios • 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…

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)

Just about any system..

Integrations

• Environmental devices • Other NMSes

Gaining visibility - Alerting

ALERTS

If <event>, then, do this, that…

Something went wrong

Send alerts

Remedy

and more..

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

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

UX with NagiosXI

How is it different from Nagios Core

• Everything web• Configuration• Dashboards• Customization• Etc..

• Wizards driven• Guided step by step• Make your own wizards

• Extremely cool UIs• Built-in performance graphs• Dashboards, Reports, Views, Management Web

How is it different from Nagios Core

• Database backend• No more flat file based• Totally robust, exportable and customizable

• Multi-tenant• One server, multiple users

• Nagvis ready• Setup any type of graphical meaningful dashboard, straight off the bat

• Advance dashboard• Personalized, customized and robust dashboards

• 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

Features

Features

• Dashboards• Provide information to respective

personnel exactly what matters to them

Features

• Views• Like dashboards, except it loads multiple

pages dynamically

Features

• Multi tenant• Breakout large teams through a single

setup with smaller management groups• Create and manage individualized level

of views and dashboards

Helpdesk Finance

IT core net

IT servers

Features

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

Features

• Wizard list out of the box• 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)

Features

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

automatically

Features

• Configuration Manager

• Get down to details and customize more…

• Done through WebUI• Import and export functions• Bulk operations

Features

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

Features

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

Features

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

Features

• Built-in reports• 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

• Data visualization• Heatmaps, Cloud, Timeline and Replays

• Legacy reports (Nagios Core)

Features

• Everything Nagios• 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)

• It can work together with an existing Nagios installation

• You can also import config files • You can distribute Nagios to off load XI

• 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

Scalability

Nagios Fusion

• Centralization• 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

Nagios DNX

• Load distribution• 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

Case study – University Campus

Over 2000 services monitored on single box

Deployment time 3 months

Case study – Telco in SG

Need fast turnover to monitor a last minute project

Deployment time 1 week

Case study – Financial Inst.

Complex monitoring of databases (MSSQL/Oracle) and complex business logic

built around Nagios

Deployment time 6 months

nagios has just gotten better…

Nagios XI ThanksCopyright 2013 © Astiostech. For informational purposes only. No warranties of any kind are made and you have to verify all information before

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