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An Overview of Nagios Solutions and The Value They Provide: Shamas Demoret

This document provides an overview of Nagios monitoring solutions and their value. It describes Nagios Core as the open source monitoring engine, and Nagios XI as the commercial-grade monitoring platform. It also outlines other Nagios products like Network Analyzer, Incident Manager, Fusion, and Reactor that provide network monitoring, incident management, distributed monitoring, and automation capabilities. The document emphasizes that Nagios solutions can help organizations identify outages quickly, manage their entire infrastructure, and collaborate across teams to plan ahead and save time and money.

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An Overview of Nagios Solutions and The Value They Provide: Shamas Demoret

This document provides an overview of Nagios monitoring solutions and their value. It describes Nagios Core as the open source monitoring engine, and Nagios XI as the commercial-grade monitoring platform. It also outlines other Nagios products like Network Analyzer, Incident Manager, Fusion, and Reactor that provide network monitoring, incident management, distributed monitoring, and automation capabilities. The document emphasizes that Nagios solutions can help organizations identify outages quickly, manage their entire infrastructure, and collaborate across teams to plan ahead and save time and money.

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An Overview of Nagios

Solutions and the Value They


Provide
Shamas Demoret
[email protected]
What Is Nagios?

Project

Community Enterprises

Solutions
Nagios Can Help!

Identify & Resolve outages quickly


Manage entire infrastructure
hardware, applications, network, web, cloud
Collaborate across teams
Plan Ahead
Save Time and Money
Rest Easy
Nagios Solutions

Core – Community-proven open source project.

Core Student & Pro – extended feature set.

XI – Commercial-grade monitoring, alerting, graphing, and


reporting.

Fusion – Distributed monitoring made easy.


Nagios Solutions

Network Analyzer – All you need to know about


NetFlow

Incident Manager – Manage, organize, and resolve


infrastructure incidents across Teams

Log Server – Organize, Analyze, & Archive

Reactor – Automate complex processes


Nagios Core

Open Source Monitoring Engine

Scheduling and alerting platform


Customizable and flexible
Nagios Core

Millions of Users and Contributors


Thousands of plugins
Unlimited Possibilities
Since 1999
Nagios Core -Tactical Overview
Nagios Core - Service Detail
Nagios Core - Network Map
Nagios Core - Reports
Nagios Core Student & Pro

VMware VM's & OVF templates running CentOS 6.5


Nagios XI

Commercial-Grade Monitoring Made Easy

Built on proven code


Designed for simplicity
User-friendly (includes Help system)
Empower users
Enterprise-class capabilities
Wizards & Dashboards

Config Wizards
40+ Preloaded
Easy to use
Dashboards
Customizable
Add to Views
Deployable
Views, Reports, Bulk Tools
Views
Perfect for NOC screen, adjustable rotation speed, any URL from
within XI or external, easy add Dashboards.

Reports
Executive Summary, Availability, SLA (new), State History, Top Alert
Producers, Alert Histogram, Notifications, Event Log, Bandwidth
Usage, Capacity Planning, Network Report & Query (new)

Bulk Modification & Bulk Host Cloning


Modify granular metrics in bulk (Enterprise)
Quickly configure like hosts
Bandwidth Report
Auto-Discovery & Capacity Planning

Auto-Discovery
Network Inventory made easy

Capacity Planning
Prepare for the future,
Be proactive in monitoring
Nagios XI- More!

Integrated DB
Backend API
CCM
Easy Multitenancy
Nagvis
Google Maps
BPI
Nagios Mobile
Nagios Fusion

Infinitely Scalable Distributed Monitoring


XI and Core
Easy Setup & Expansion
Quick click-through (XI)
Visualize entire infrastructure
Centralized dashboards
Manage world-wide network
At-a-glance view
Nagios Fusion
Nagios Network Analyzer

See What’s Really Happening on Your Network


Monitor network traffic origin, destination, and bandwidth
Detect intrusions & compromises
In-depth analysis
Advanced reporting
Easy XI integration
Nagios Network Analyzer

Dashboards, Reports, Sources, & More


Advanced Visualizations
Real-Time Reporting
Network Analyzer/ XI Integration

Top Talkers (by sourc


IP/port or
destination IP/port
Top by bytes
Top by packets
Network Query
Nagios Incident Manager
Lightweight, Easy to Use Incident Management
Resolve issues faster
Users and Teams
Organize, Automate, Prioritize
Collaborate & communicate
Advanced reporting
Add notes, attachments, update status
Reports
General Stats, MTTR, First Response Times, Closed Incidents
Easy XI Integration
Nagios Incident Manager
Incident Manager/ XI Integration

Easy setup (XI component)


Forwarding threshold
Built-in macros (type, time, hostname/service
description, status, plugin output, XI URL)

Automatic Incident Creation


IM to XI update of Acknowledgments and
Comments
Log Server
Log Management and Monitoring
Organize, Analyze, Archive, Dashboard
Alert by email, RDP, SNMP Traps, Alerts page

Windows
Linux
Network Device
Application
Log Server
Log Server

Simple Clustering
NCPA
Nagios Cross Platform Agent

Windows
Linux
Mac OSX
Active & Passive
HUD ------>
Reactor
Currently in public beta – available at nagios.com
Easily manage complex automation and workflow rules
Event chains & blocks
Variables & metavariables/ if, then, else
Reactor
Use-cases
●
Automatically handle network problems
Dynamically respond to network security event, contain and
●

minimize a hacked site or security breach


●
Automatically deploy software to new network machines
●
Auto-scale cloud infrastructure to handle changing load

●
Nagios Services

Training – Live & Self-Paced


Core Support
Certification – Professional and Admin
go.nagios.com/something-useful-here
Implementation – Worldwide Partner Network
Quickstarts
Custom Development – plugins, wizards,
components, reports, etc...
Recap

Nagios IT Management Solutions


XI – Monitor Your Infrastructure
Network Analyzer – Analyze Your Network Traffic
Incident Manager – Organize Your Incidents
Fusion – Distributed Monitoring Without Limits
Core – Trusted Open Source Monitoring Engine
Log Server - Organize, Analyze, & Archive
Getting Started

Free 60 Day Trial (fully functional)


Quickstarts & JumpStart Sessions
support.nagios.com/forum
More Presentations
Program Guide and USB's
Nagios.com
Questions?

Thanks for joining me today!

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