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 on ranges from Apple II and Z80 to Honeywell & IBM mainframes via Tandem Non-Stop and some BIG supercomputers.
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 on Small Board Computers
Last year I presented on my home datacentre and how Nagios was used to monitor the numerous and increasingly random operating systems I run.
As part of that I based my Nagios installation on standalone Raspberry Pi systems running Nagios Core.
This time I will discuss and explain how to use Intel based small board computer systems to perform the same tasks – but using Nagios Core Services Platform as the base. A number of different hardware platforms will be shown, all with the same criteria – does it fit in my pocket? Part of the presentation will include recipes for building these systems and the pitfalls and promise associated with them.
What I Hope You Learn
For the attendees – you’ll see one of 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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