nagios conference 2012 - nate broderick - bringing nagios xi into your business
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Nate Broderick's presentation on bringing Nagios XI Into Your Business. The presentation was given during the Nagios World Conference North America held Sept 25-28th, 2012 in Saint Paul, MN. For more information on the conference (including photos and videos), visit: http://go.nagios.com/nwcnaTRANSCRIPT
Bringing Nagios XI Into Your Business
By Nathan BroderickAI Vector, LLC
nagios@AI Vector.com
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AI Vector Background
AI Vector is a technology company
Founded in 2008
Monitoring
Programming
Systems Administration
Creative solutions to difficult problems
Knowledgeable staff
Systems tuning
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Specializing in monitoring and programming
Focused on mid to large companies looking to enhance their monitoring needs
Assist in systems architecture and implementation
Performance tuning and ongoing monitoring
Issue:
If your customers know about your problems before
you do, it’s time to get better monitoring
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Why Monitoring?
What is the Cost?
Monitoring is essential for any company that wants to survive
Monitoring helps companies create a professional image
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What is the Cost?
Are your current monitoring solutions meeting your needs?
What matters most to your business?
Productivity Loss
Labor Costs
Potential Lost Sales
Loss of Confidence in your Business
Where to start
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Where to Start
Does your company use your current monitoring system?
Nagios makes monitoring simple
Systems analysis of current Monitoring
What processes are necessary
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Nagios XI Features
Intuitive GUI
Easily view problems
Little training required
Performance Graphs
Dashboards and Reports
Configuration Wizards
Expandability
24/7 Monitoring
Multiple User Support
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Where to Start
How many systems do you have?
How many services run on those systems?
What are your critical business processes?
Who will be running the system once it is set up?
Plan what type of reporting will be needed and who will see it
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Planning
Establish roles and responsibilities
Determine who will run the system
Plan out the host groups and service groups
Establish good SLA times
Create the audience of the alerts
Determine what management will need to see
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Planning
Plan to monitor regional areas of the company
Do a cost analysis of implementation
Develop a project plan for the implementation
Plan out the monitor hierarchy
Evaluating Monitoring Systems
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Where to Start with Nagios
Evaluate the structure of the Nagios system
Structure for performance
Scaling
Redundancy
Establish standards
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Why Nagios XI ?
What sets Nagios apart from its competitor?
Nagios adapts to your environment no matter how complex
Easy to use interface
Reliable, scalable monitoring
Why does AI Vector like working in the Nagios System?
Getting Started with Nagios
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Monitoring Wizard in Nagios
Easily set up monitors using wizards
Little training needed to set up monitors
Better for large environments
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Dashboards
Customized views for each member of the team
Easy to share dashboards with coworkers
Easy to find views
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Performance Graphs
Good performance graphs
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Expandability
Useful components like AD integration
API Backend
Sharable dashboards
Auto discovery components
Graph Explorer Component
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Graph Explorer Component
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Advanced Monitoring
Nagios XI goes where no other monitors have gone before
AI VECTOR AND YOU
AI Vector has specialized in monitoring for several years
Nagios XI is the most cost effective solution we have found
Nagios XI scales and adapts to big environments when other systems fail
Nagios XI interfaces with most systems
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Nagios Implementation
Establish basic monitors
Internal politics play a roll in monitoring, trust the Nagios monitors
Configure the host groups and service groups
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Nagios Implementation
Add SLA monitors
Business workflow monitors
Fine tune the system
Add additional checks
Set up dashboards and reporting
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Nagios Implementation
Finalize dashboards for management
Create meaningful reports
Visual Maps
Root Cause Monitoring
Documentation
Tends to be an iterative process
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Selenium Integration
Selenium Demo
Gotchas
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Nagios Summary
Internal Politics
Justifying the cost
Long term administration
Lack of standard processes
Fine tune monitors
Expensive monitoring tools
Resistance to new monitoring tools
Initial setup is crucial
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Nagios Summary
Nagios is the best system out there
Proactively solve business problems - Don't wait for your customers to tell you
Quickly identify the root of a problem - no more finger pointing
Monitoring saves your company money
Build customer and IT confidence through transparency
Nagios will solve your business monitoring needs
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Advanced Monitoring with AI Vector
Fine tuning
SNMP solutions
Complex business monitoring
• Reliable, scalable monitoring
• Multi-site support
• Component customization
Questions?
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