Yesterday evening I presented at the SF Bay Area Large-Scale Production Engineering meetup group at Yahoo HQ a talk about “Monitoring with Icinga”. This was an introductory talk intended to bring awareness about icinga (there were only 3-4 people from the audience of about 75 that heard of it before), and I think it reached its goal very well; afterwards there were many people interested to try it out and had various questions about it at the end. I was also very happy to have Matthew Brooks one of the icinga core developers in the audience and backing me up to some of the more difficult questions people had. Thanks again Matthew for coming! Here are the slides from my presentation:

@LSPEMeetup made available the video on justin.tv; unfortunately the quality of the video/sound is not the best; you can find it here.

I’ve just finished reading “Learning Nagios 3.0″ by Wojciech Kocjan and published by Packt Publishing, and this is a great book for anyone interested in nagios. This is a beginner level book that introduces nagios to new users interested in monitoring their infrastructure, but it will also present advanced features that even more experienced sysadmins can benefit from. All these in a pretty compact book, at 301 pages.

The topics are as follows:

• Introduction
• Installation and Configuration
• Using the Nagios Web Interface
• Overview of Nagios Plugins
• Advanced Configuration
• Notifications and Events
• Passive Checks and NSCA
• Monitoring Remote Hosts
• SNMP
• Advanced Monitoring
• Extending Nagios

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Here is a list of 10 nagios 2.x web frontends that you might find useful if you are looking for a web interface to administer your nagios configuration.

1. Centreon / Oreon – http://www.centreon.com/
Centreon is a network, system, applicative supervision and monitoring tool, it is based upon the most effective Open Source monitoring engine : Nagios. Centreon provides a new frontend and new functionalities to Nagios. Read the rest of this entry »