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Bringing Nagios XI Into Your Business

Bringing Nagios XI Into Your Business. By Nathan Broderick AI Vector, LLC. nagios@AI Vector.com. AI Vector Background. AI Vector is a technology company Founded in 2008 Monitoring Programming Systems Administration Creative solutions to difficult problems Knowledgeable staff

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Bringing Nagios XI Into Your Business

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  1. Bringing Nagios XI Into Your Business By Nathan Broderick AI Vector, LLC nagios@AI Vector.com

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. Issue: • If your customers know about your problems before you do, it’s time to get better monitoring

  5. Why Monitoring? What is the Cost? Monitoring is essential for any company that wants to survive Monitoring helps companies create a professional image Toys R Us website went down temporarily in key Christmas time frame.

  6. 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

  7. Nagios World Conference Where to start

  8. Where to Start Does your company use your current monitoring system? Nagios makes monitoring simple Systems analysis of current Monitoring What processes are necessary

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. Nagios World Conference Evaluating Monitoring Systems

  14. Where to Start with Nagios Evaluate the structure of the Nagios system Structure for performance Scaling Redundancy Establish standards

  15. 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

  16. Monitoring Wizard in Nagios Easily set up monitors using wizards Little training needed to set up monitors Better for large environments

  17. Dashboards Customized views for each member of the team Easy to share dashboards with coworkers Easy to find views

  18. Performance Graphs Good performance graphs

  19. Expandability Useful components like AD integration API Backend Sharable dashboards Auto discovery components Graph Explorer Component

  20. Graph Explorer Component

  21. Advanced Monitoring Nagios XI goes where no other monitors have gone before

  22. 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

  23. Nagios Implementation Establish basic monitors Internal politics play a roll in monitoring, trust the Nagios monitors Configure the host groups and service groups

  24. Nagios Implementation Add SLA monitors Business workflow monitors Fine tune the system Add additional checks Set up dashboards and reporting

  25. Nagios Implementation Finalize dashboards for management Create meaningful reports Visual Maps Root Cause Monitoring Documentation Tends to be an iterative process

  26. Selenium Integration Selenium Demo

  27. Nagios World Conference Gotchas

  28. 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

  29. 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

  30. Advanced Monitoring with AI Vector Fine tuning SNMP solutions Complex business monitoring Reliable, scalable monitoring Multi-site support Component customization

  31. Questions? ?????

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