Monitoring Drupal with Nagios

I will give a brief intro on what monitoring is and why anyone would want to use it, followed by a talk on monitoring.

In particular, I will present how to setup Icinga, which is a fork of Nagios with a slicker interface. I will cover using the Drupal Nagios module, but mostly be about monitoring the health of the server itself. It will therefore be more focused around system admin tasks.

Agenda :

• A brief intro on what monitoring is and why anyone would want to use it.
• Installing Nagios
  ** Compiling from source
  ** Ubuntu package
• Configuring it
• Graphical configuration
• Text based with Git (my favorite)
• Plugins
  ** Where to find Nagios plugins.
  ** How to write one when it does not exist yet.
• Nagios extensions for logging and graphing.
• Securely monitoring remote servers.
• Automated responses to problems.

Presenter

Jonathan Villemaire-Krajden lives in Montreal and works for Evolving Web. He is also proposing a co-hosted talk with Jeff Wallace about installing Drupal in the cloud.