Nagios – Desclos Consulting

Experience with Nagios

Nagios is an event monitoring system that offers monitoring and alerting services for servers, switches, applications and services. It alerts users when things go wrong and alerts them a second time when the problem has been resolved.

Ethan Galstad and a group of developers originally wrote Nagios as NetSaint. As of 2015, they actively maintain both the official and unofficial plugins. Nagios is a recursive acronym: “Nagios Ain’t Gonna Insist On Sainthood” – “sainthood” makes reference to the original name NetSaint, which changed in response to a legal challenge by owners of a similar trademark. “Agios” (or “hagios”) also transliterates the Greek word άγιος, which means “saint”.

Nagios was originally designed to run under Linux, but it also runs on other Unix variants. It is free software licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.

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EMEA IT Regional Technologist Senior Manager - [55 Months]

Architecture, design and implementation of an in-house disaster recovery solution for the EMEA and APAC regions, covering 28 industrial sites in 12 countries and representing total annual savings of USD 450,000 over a three-year period,
Level 2 support for EMEA industrial sites, including system architecture, security and regional management of corporate projects,
Direct management of an international team of 3 systems engineers.
- Definition, architecture and implementation of a 100% open source monitoring solution for around 1,000 servers,
- Definition and implementation of standards in liaison with the Corporate teams in the USA:
  - Design Active Directory,
  - Implementation of SOX 404 [ COBIT ],
  - Linux Desktop study.

Deployed technologies : 3com, Active Directory, Alcatel, Cisco, Citrix, Dos, Exchange, HP, IBM, ITIL, Nagios, Sun, VMWare, Windows

Used languages : English, French, German

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