Dave Williams
SysAdmin
Nagios Community Member
About The Speaker
Whilst working in IT for 45 years, I’ve more or less tried everything – application development, hardware design, operating system modifications, and almost every method of telecoms from two cans and a piece of string to 40GB fibre switches. The hardware I’ve worked ranges from Apple II and Z80 to Honeywell & IBM mainframes via Tandem Non-Stop and some BIG super computers.
In all of this time, the mantra ‘if you’re not measuring it it’s out of control’ seemed to apply. Nagios first came to my notice as NetSaint back in the day; I ported it to IBM AIX 3.2.5 and released a public domain Installp file for it. Ever since then I’ve used/abused the Nagios software for a ridiculous selection of applications and environments.
Nagios for the Home Datacentre
This presentation will cover how Nagios is used to monitor and administer a home datacentre using Raspberry Pi’s.
Behind the Session Title
In my session I want to show how a ‘hobbyist’ environment still needs Nagios every day and just what can be done. A number of my systems use production datacentre methods to keep the ‘lights on’ and this is how Nagios informs and reports on the environment
What I Hope You Learn
You’ll probably see the smallest Nagios monitoring system built (the processing heart was given away taped to the front of a magazine!) You’ll also gain an insight as to how easy it is to deploy just enough monitoring for almost anything without trying too hard! In fact, it might just be disposable monitoring…
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