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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…
• 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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