Page 1 Altnix Confidential 2016 Nagios Monitoring Services www.altnix.com An Altech Brand Initiative
Jul 16, 2015
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Nagios Monitoring Serviceswww.altnix.com
An Altech Brand Initiative
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Company Background
USA | India | Middle East
• Headquarters in US
• International Customer
Base
• IT Managed Services
• Contact
– 1-800-913-9553
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Altnix Portfolio
Managed
Hosting
Monitoring
Solutions
Open
Source
Business
Solutions
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Monitoring Solutions
On-Premise Monitoring
Monitoring as Service (MaaS)
Cloud Monitoring
Consulting
Implementations
Customizations
24x7 Monitoring Desk
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Monitoring Platform Expertise
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NUMBER ONE IT INFRA
MONITORING TOOL
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Why Number One?
• End to End Infrastructure Monitoring
– Network, Servers, Databases, Applications
• Extensible with Plug-ins
• APIs availability for 3rd Party integration
• Scalable
• Customizable
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NAGIOS OVERVIEW
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Nagios Family
Nagios Core
• Open Source
• Less Features
Nagios XI
• Enterprise Grade
• Friendly GUI
• More Features
Fusion
• For Large Deployments
• Distributed Monitoring
Network Analyzer
• Network Traffic
• Reports and Dashboard
Log Server
• Log Collection
• Log Query and Reports
Incident Manager
• Incidents with Tickets
• Report around Tickets
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Nagios XI - Overview
Enterprise Grade Monitoring Tool
Open Source Software
Active Developer Community
Growing Eco-System of Partners
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Awards and Recognition
Nagios is the Industry Standard in IT Infrastructure
Monitoring
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Customizable Dashboards
Performance Graphing
Per-User Customization
Configuration Wizards
Advanced Configuration GUI
Auto-Discovery
Visualizations
Enhanced Reports
Feature Set
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Tactical Overview
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Host and Services
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Logical Device Groups
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BB Map
Two Dimensional Summay or Hosts versus Services
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Graphs and Charts
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Reports
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Alerts Behavior
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Alerts Histogram
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Alert Heatmap
“hotness” of
devices and
services related
issues over time
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Network Status Map
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Notifications
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Email Alerts
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Issue Escalations
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NagVis Dashboard
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Graph Explorer
•All Graphs in One Place
•Filter by Devices and Services and Grouping
•More interactive Charts, Better Color Coding
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Bandwidth Usage Report
• Bandwith Usage Reports for better insight into
network loads
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Capacity Planning
Use Historical Data and Extrapolate to Future
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Audit Logs
Which user made what changes to Nagios?
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3RD PARTY TOOL
INTEGRATIONS
(WILL NEED CUSTOMIZATION AND SCRIPTING)
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THIRD PARTY INTEGRATION• Nagios provides backend APIs for 3rd party
integration
• Example:
– Ticketing Systems (OTRS, RT, Unicenter)
– Reporting Tools (Cacti, Ganglia)
– Log Management Tools (Splunk)
These are complex integrations that can be
handled later if required
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WHAT IF I NEED MORE
FEATURES?
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• Plug-ins and Add-Ons
• Script Based Backend (Perl, C etc)
• Hence Additional Modules can be integrated into
Nagios
Extensible Architecture
You can Write your own Modules as Add-On to Nagios
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• Nagios is Open Source
• Developer Community around Nagios
• Release code on Nagios Exchange
• Most Plug-In modules are free, some are
licensed
Nagios Exchange
http://exchange.nagios.org
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Plug-Ins Sample
Clustering and High-Availability
Databases Grid ComputingJava
Applications and Servers
Log FilesNetwork and
Systems Management
Network Connections,
Stats and Bandwidth
Network Protocols
Operating Systems
Security Software
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Editions – Comparison 1Features Standard Enterprise BenefitConfiguration Rollback
Yes Yes
Allows administrators to easily recover from
configuration errors by rolling back to
known good snapshots.
New wizards and
componentsYes Yes
New wizards and components add
additional functionality and are
automatically installed and upgraded with
each new release.
Tools menu
Yes Yes
Allows users to integrate custom and 3rd-
party applications directly into the XI
interface to increase productivity.
Bandwidth report
Yes Yes
Provides detailed daily, monthly, quarterly,
and yearly bandwidth reports for routers
and switches.
Executive summary
report Yes Yes
Provides management, administrators, and
decision-makers with at-a-glance visibility
into recent alerts and activity.
Heartbeat monitoring
Yes Yes
Provides essential monitoring of critical
hosts and applications on remote
machines.
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Features Standard Enterprise BenefitCustom action URLs
Yes YesProvides users with ability to add
customized links to each host and
service.
NOC screens
Yes Yes
Provides at-a-glance overview of IT
operations from a single screen.
Host rename tool
Yes YesAllows administrators to quickly and
efficiently rename hosts and retain
historical performance and alert data.
Emailed reports
Yes YesAllows users to quickly email reports to
themselves, team members, and other
decision makers.
Enhanced
Configuration GUI Yes YesImproved GUI for monitoring
configuration makes complex tasks
easier.
Mobile InterfaceYes Yes
Provides compact, intuitive interface for
mobile phones and devices.
Editions – Comparison 2
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Features Standard Enterprise BenefitCustom Host and
Service Actions
Yes Yes
Allows administrators to define
commands and actions that are readily
available to user for troubleshooting and
fixing problems, opening trouble tickets,
and more.
Capacity planning
reportYes
Provides trending analysis and capacity
planning for predicting future upgrade
requirements.
Web-based server
console access YesProvides fast, web-based access to the
XI server console for performing
upgrades and maintenance.
Advanced business
process monitoringYes
Provides advanced reporting of critical
business processes with automatic group
synchronization, advanced grouping
logic, and advanced permissions.
Scheduled reports
Yes
Provides regularly scheduled reports to
be sent to decision makers,
management, and administrators via
email.
Editions – Comparison 3
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Features Standard Enterprise BenefitScheduled pages
Yes
Allows users to schedule any XI web
page to be delivered via email as PDF
attachments on a scheduled basis. Great
for sending dashboards, custom screens,
and more.
Bulk modification tool
Yes
Allows administrators to quickly modify
attributes of thousands of hosts and
services in a few simple steps.
Bulk notification
settings tool YesAllows administrators to quickly deploy
notification settings to users in a few
simple steps.
Audit Logging
YesProvides an audit trail of changes and
modifications to ensure policy
compliance.
Improved
Autodiscovery YesProvides easy integration with bulk
monitoring wizard for rapid monitoring of
newly discovered devices.
Editions – Comparison 4
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Features Standard Enterprise BenefitRemote Machine
Monitoring- Yes
Provides easy to use monitoring of
remote machines and devices on
external networks without firewall
modifications.
Escalation Wizard
- Yes
Allows users to easily create notification
escalation policies.
Editions – Comparison 5
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THANK YOU
www.altnix.com
Contact
1-800-913-5553