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.
InfluxDB, Grafana, and Nagios XI: Using Them to Run an Astronomical Observatory
I’ll show how Nagios XI (now with InfluxDB!) can be combined with Grafana, Home Assistant, MQTT, and a plethora of astronomy software to manage and operate a remote astronomical observatory. Find out how weather, solar storms, the Sun and Moon, satellites, the space station, and a ton of astrophotography equipment all combine to predict, plan, and photograph the skies. All controlled with Nagios software! No astrophotography knowledge required, but you might get hooked. If we’re REALLY lucky, we might be able to do some live astrophotography that night, depending on the weather.
Eric Loyd, COO of EverWatch Global, is also an avid amateur astrophotographer, and through his website, https://astropotamus.com, brings astronomy and astrophotography outreach to kids, adults, and seniors through talks and star parties. Eric will show how his real backyard observatory, telescopes, computers, cameras, sensors, and more are all managed, monitored, and automated with Nagios as the brains of it all.
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.
Summoning the Single Pane: A Live Nagios Fusion Ritual (with giveaways!)
Step into a live monitoring conjuring where a handful of humble Raspberry Pis are transformed into a unified, all-seeing observatory using Nagios Fusion. We will install, configure, and weave multiple Nagios instances together in real time, watching scattered alerts collapse into a single, coherent view—no smoke, just well-crafted telemetry. When the spell is complete, the Raspberry Pis that powered the magic will be released into the audience, enchanted, configured, and ready to continue their watch in new domains. In other words, we’ll be running a live Nagios Fusion install, configuration, and monitoring on a handful of Raspberry Pis, and then give those Pis away to audience members. This will be all “hands-on” with minimal slides and maximum fun.
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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