Afternoon Sessions on Wednesday

September 29, 2011

One of the highlights of the conference was to listen to some of the new features and get a review of current features with Nagios Core and Nagios XI.  Ethan Galstad presented an interesting session that demonstrated some of the upgrades that will occur with both Core and XI.  Most of the people that I [...]

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Morning Sessions on Wednesday

September 29, 2011

I did two sessions this morning which provided some interesting feedback and I learned a few things from people as well.  I did a session on monitoring Linux mail servers and a session on criteria for choosing Nagios plugins.  One thing I learned from a programmer was the difference in impact on a Nagios server [...]

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Nagios Conference Registration

September 28, 2011

The Nagios Conference registration was a great opportunity to get to talk with people.  I spent a lot of time talking with a person from a large company that was testing one of the addons for Nagios Mod-Gearman.  Mod-Gearman is an application that helps you offload the work load on your Nagios server to other [...]

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Last Minute Changes Before The Conference Registration

September 27, 2011

After a 2.5 hour flight to Minneapolis/St. Paul for the Nagios Conference, I had a couple hours this afternoon after arriving to work on a few changes for my presentations.  I am using a laptop to virtualize Nagios Core, Nagios XI and a Postfix mail server for the first presentation.  This can offer a few [...]

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Getting Started with SNMP

September 12, 2011

Administrators who will be monitoring their networks using SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) usually struggle with the initial stages of SNMP.  It is not easy to be productive until you have struggled through some of the basics. The the 1st Nagios World Conference in North America being held in Saint Paul, Minnesota (USA) September 27th-29th, [...]

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