Mike Guthrie's presentation on visualization tools for Nagios. The presentation was given during the Nagios World Conference North America held Sept 27-29th, 2011 in Saint Paul, MN. For more information on the conference (including photos and videos), visit: http://go.nagios.com/nwcna

1. Exploring Visualization Tools With Nagios Mike Guthrie [email_address]

3. Can communicate complex ideas and information in an understandable format

4. Wider audience of understanding

5. Can present technical concepts to non-technical users

6. Can clearly reveal the source of problems

7. As environments get larger, data visualization becomes more important

9. Rep: “I can ping you, looks fine to me. I can't see a problem”

13. NagVis Automap:

14. NagVis

15. NagVis

16. NagVis

17. NagVis

18. NagVis

21. For Nagios Core or Nagios XI

22. Requires ndoutils, merlin, or mk_livestatus as a backend

23. Easy to install and get up and running

24. Intuitive user interface

25. Flash based

26. Live status updates within maps and diagrams

27. OpServices DaVinci DaVinci

28. OpServices DaVinci DaVinci

29. OpServices DaVinci DaVinci

31. Intended to display the “real” state of the network and business processes

32. Can be used to set up “smarter” alerts.

33. Developed by a really nice guy

34. Nagios BPI (Business Process Intelligence)

35. Nagios BPI (Business Process Intelligence)

36. Nagios BPI (Business Process Intelligence)

38. Nagios XI: Graph Explorer Component Graph Explorer

39. Nagios XI: Graph Explorer Component Graph Explorer

40. Nagios XI: Graph Explorer Component Graph Explorer

41. Nagios XI: Graph Explorer Component Graph Explorer

42. Nagios XI: Graph Explorer Component Graph Explorer

43. Nagios XI: Google Map Component Google Maps Component

44. Nagios XI: Google Map Component Google Maps Component

45. Nagios XI: Hypermap and Network Replay Hypermap

46. Nagios XI Minemap Minemap

47. Nagios XI BBMap Minemap