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.
Automating Nagios Monitoring with Ansible: Streamlining Infrastructure Management
This presentation aims to explore how Ansible, a powerful automation tool, can simplify and enhance the deployment and management of Nagios monitoring systems. We will delve into the synergies between Nagios and Ansible, demonstrating how automation can lead to faster provisioning, consistent configurations, and reduced operational overhead. In this presentation, best practices for using Ansible to automate Nagios setups will be uncovered, including playbook creation, inventory management, and configuration management. By the end of this session, attendees will have a clear understanding of how to leverage these tools together to create a robust, automated monitoring solution that scales with organizational needs.
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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