Eric Loyd
COO
EverWatch Global
About The Speaker
Eric Loyd has been a speaker at every Nagios World Conference since 2012, received a Nagios MVP award in 2014 and another in 2015, and was a winner in the 2015 Nagios Log Server contest. Mr. Loyd is a 35+ year IT professional, astrophotographer, musician, and serial entrepreneur. His experience with Nagios started in 2004. EverWatch Global, the most recent company he co-founded, is a Nagios Authorized partner and professional services provider for all things Nagios.
Mr. Loyd lives near Rochester, New York with his long-time girlfriend (a 2014 Nagios World Conference speaker on using Nagios to monitor beehives), four really awesome cats, a handful of Raspberry Pis and a SkyShed Personal Observatory Dome.
Seriously Advanced Nagios XI Configuration
Session will cover advanced XI configuration topics, including: getting a “command line” version of the GUI using the Nagios API (Medium), using the Nagios API to automate federation from a central Nagios XI server to Nagios Core “workers” (Advanced), and self-aware Nagios XI services with parameters defined in the service_description through the magic of shell-substitution.The presentation will cover an innovative Proof of Concept (PoC) showcasing how to leverage Go to expand the functionality of Nagios Core, including how to parse and analyze the data from Nagios Core to predict outages for hosts and services. Using advanced algorithms and historical data, we’ll uncover the probability percentages of recurring events, providing actionable insights for proactive IT management. Whether you’re an IT professional, developer, or system administrator, this session will inspire you with practical applications of Go for extending monitoring tools like Nagios Core.
Behind the Session Title
We’ll be speaking about how golang programing help to develop a prediction little program for calculating the data generated in the Nagios side.
What I Hope You Learn
Golang, libraries for calculation in golang, how to deploy in their environment.
So You Want to Be a Nagios Reseller?
This presentation will cover what it takes to become a successful Nagios reseller. This will be sort of an introductory “how to start a business” talk, but specific to “how to start a Nagios reseller business” talk. The talk will include things like basic business planning, understanding and defining your market, getting finances in order, sales planning and marketing, future growth, and how to integrate that with the Nagios Authorized Partner program to turn it into a great Nagios reseller business.
Behind the Session Title
We’ll be speaking about how golang programing help to develop a prediction little program for calculating the data generated in the Nagios side.
What I Hope You Learn
Golang, libraries for calculation in golang, how to deploy in their environment.
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