Yancy Ribbens' presentation on using the new NPush with Nagios The presentation was given during the Nagios World Conference North America held Sept 25-28th, 2012 in Saint Paul, MN. For more information on the conference (including photos and videos), visit: http://go.nagios.com/nwcna

1. Npush agent deployment
Yancy Ribbens
yribbens@nagios.com

2. Deploying Agents with Npush
Deploying NSClient++ 0.3.9
Configure NRPE
Configure Check_NT
Push Updated Configs
Uninstall
How It works
Customize Recipes
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3. Why are agents are useful?
Agents run as a process (usually) and send back
useful statics
CPU, Memory, Disk usage, Etc
Agents can be highly customizable
Run custom scripts to monitor anything!
Example agents
CheckNT
NRPE
NRDS_Win
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4. Windows Agent Deployment
Microsoft SCCM
Requirese Microsoft Domain
Requires many working pieces (DNS, WSUS,
Domain Controller, ETC)
Expensive!
Puppet
Requires agent to be installed to install agents?
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5. Npush Agent Deployment
Npush makes agent deployment swift and
easy
Built directly into NagiosXI
Configure, Deploy and Monitor all from Nagios
Requires to Windows software
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6. Install and configure check_nt
Npush Automatically Generates client .ini file with
default settings for check_nt
Generates Random password
Pre-Populates allowed host IP address with
Nagios IP
Enables “use_file”
Enables common modules
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7. check_nt deployment video

8. Install and configure NRPE
Generates client .ini file with default settings for
NRPE settings
Enable SSL
Specify default NRPE port 5666
Enable Command Argument Processing (allow arguments)
Allow Meta-Characters
Populates allowed host IP address with Nagios IP
Enables “use_file”
Enables common modules
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9. NRPE Demo
NRPE Demo Video
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10. Push Updated Config
Push any config options
Modules
Crash Settings
Settings
LOG
NSClient
NRPE
External Script
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11. Update Configuration
Updated Configuration Clip
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12. Npush Uninstall Agent
Npush also allows you to uninstall/reinstall
Show Uninstall clip
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13. How Does It Work?
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14. Detect Architecture
Detects architecture of target host
Allows for bulk install of a list of hosts
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15. Npush Install Process
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16. Npush Under the hood
Npush command line (under the hood)
Show Command line interface
Dissection of Npush recipe
Install.py
Show sample Install.py files
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17. Future Release Options
Deploy to subnet or list of ip addresses from
GUI
Upload custom recipes to UI and define custom
recipes in UI
Add Windows Default Agents. NSClient++0.4,
NRDS_Win, NSCA, Others?
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