Nagios World Conference North America - 2013

A preliminary schedule for the 2013 conference is listed below. Speakers and times are subject to change.


Day 1: Monday, Sept 30th
Time Event
6:00pm – 10:00pm Registration and Welcome Event


Day 2: Tuesday, October 1st
Time Track 1 Track 2 Track 3
8:00am – 9:00am Registration
9:00am – 10:00am Keynote and Welcome – Ethan Galstad (Track 1)
10:00am – 10:30am Break
10:30am – 11:20am Visualization of Monitoring Data at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Facility – Janice Singh Effective Monitoring for Demanding Operations Environments – Rodrigue Chakode –
11:30am – 12:20pm Trust Management in Monitoring Financial Critical Information Infrastructures and Policy Compliance – Jorge Hernandez The Nagios Light-Bar – David Stern Power Up! The Multifaceted Benefits and Capabilities of Nagios – Shamas Demoret
12:30pm – 2:00pm Lunch Lunch BoF Session (12:30-1:00):Nagios Plugin Thresholds – William Leibzon
2:00pm – 2:50pm Monitoring Network Traffic With Netflow and Nagios Network Analyzer – Nick Scott Leveraging and Understanding Performance Data and Graphs – Troy Lea Alerting With MySQL and Nagios – Sheeri Cabral
3:00pm – 3:50pm Nagios, AWS, and Hosted VoIP (Automatically Scaling Your Platform To Match Demand) – Eric Loyd SNMP Monitoring Architecture With Nagios – William Leibzon Getting Started With Nagios XI, Core, and Fusion – Sam Lansing
4:00pm – 4:30pm Break
4:30pm – 5:20pm Integrating On-Call Schedules with Nagios – James Clark Visualizing Your Monitoring Data – Andy Brist Securing Your Nagios Server – Spenser Reinhardt
7:00pm – 11:00pm Evening Event


Day 3: Wednesday, October 2nd
Time Track 1 Track 2 Track 3
9:00am – 9:50am What’s New In Nagios Core 4 – Eric Stanley Building Technology for Storage Systems Monitoring – Thomas Dunbar Monitoring: How To Grow Up and Not Worry About Things – Fernando Honig
10:00am – 10:30am Break
10:30am – 11:20am Scaling Nagios Core 4.x – Dan Wittenberg Using Nagios as a Security Monitoring Framework – John Lowry *Schedule change
A Walthrough Of Nagios XI’s Features and Capabilities – Shamas Demoret
11:30am – 12:20pm The All-in-One Nagios Solution – Dave Williams From “Bare [Virtual] Metal” to Nagios Core on Amazon Web Services – Eric Loyd Leveraging SNMP Extensions with Nagios – Mike Weber
12:30pm – 2:00pm Lunch
2:00pm – 2:50pm NSClient++: Whats New – Michael Medin Nagios APIs – Eric Stanley and Andy Brist Getting Started With Nagios Incident Manager and Nagios Network Analyzer – Sam Lansing
3:00pm – 3:50pm NCPA: A New Cross-Platform Monitoring Agent – Nick Scott Intro to Network Monitoring Using Nagios Network Analyzer and NSTI – Spenser Reinhardt Developing Nagios XI Components and Wizards – Jake Omann
4:00pm – 4:30pm Break
4:30pm – 5:20pm Nagios at Etsy: How a Handmade Marketplace Grew its Monitoring with Nagios – Avleen Vig What you should Monitor and Alert on in a Production System – Arup Chakrabarti *Schedule change
Ask Nagios! An Open Discussion On Future Directions and Technology – Ethan Galstad and Scott Wilkerson


Day 4: Thursday, October 3rd
Time Track 1 Track 2 Track 3
9:00am – 9:50am Distributed Monitoring with Raspberry Pi – Mike Weber Monitoring Remote Locations with Nagios – John Sellens Adagios – Web Configuration Done Right – Pall Sigurdsson
10:00am – 10:30am Break
10:30am – 11:20am Nagios in a Multi-Platform Environment – Leland Lammert Windows Monitoring With Nagios – Yancy Ribbens Helping Nagios Grow in Your Country – Brazil As A Test Case – Rodrigo Faria
11:30am – 12:20pm Bringing Business Awareness to Your Operation Team – Nicolas Brousse – Case Study: Nagios in WindTelecom World – Luis Contreras
12:30pm – 2:00pm Lunch BoF Session (12:30-1:30):
Nagios APIs – Eric Stanley		 Lunch
2:00pm Conference Ends