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.
Monitoring Proxmox with NagiosXI
Presentation Talk a little about Proxmox Discuss what metrics are available in the Proxmox API Introduce Proxmoxer Introduce the Wizard with NWC2025 origin story Walk through of using the Proxmox monitoring wizards to create host and service objects in NagiosXI. Walk through of what’s created within CCM Templates Commands Plugins Advanced Configuration, modifying wizard generated commands with macros. Closing
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
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