Robin Porter, Jay Patel, and Charlie Contrelli

A24

About The Speaker

I got into Nagios back in 2006 when I was working as a Desktop Support Expert for the University of Missouri Library System. We were managing about 200 public workstations, and our monitoring solution at the time was… well, walking around and checking them manually—pure sneakernet. That got old fast, so I started searching for a better way, stumbled onto Nagios, and I’ve been using it ever since.

A24 – A Nagios Partner Evolution Story

Since 2012, A24 has evolved with the changing market, from initially providing licenses to becoming a global distributor with extensive services capabilities. In this session, we’ll explore how the demands for monitoring and observability have changed over the years, highlighting the opportunities for partners to help their customers today. We’ll also discuss the services advantage that delivers an edge in an increasingly competitive market.

Behind the Session Title

I’ve done a ton of development with Nagios and Nagios XI—NRDP, plugins, notification handlers, Mod-Gearman—you name it. One thing I’ve always wanted to do was containerize Nagios in a clean, repeatable way. During the pandemic, I dove deep into LXD, and the result was running a high-availability Nagios XI setup inside LXD system containers on Ubuntu.

Now that CentOS is basically gone, Ubuntu is becoming the go-to platform for Nagios XI deployments. I think LXD adds even more value to that, especially for developers and testers. So in my talk, I’ll walk through how to build a containerized Nagios XI development environment using Ubuntu.

What I Hope You Learn

Guests will learn how to:

Use the LXD hypervisor on an Ubuntu based server.
Create a Lan Network integration to pull a local ip with container.
Create a new system container running Ubuntu.
Install and run NagiosXI on the container.

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