Managing Nagios Configs with Git

Theo Baschak

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Presentation source/download available at github.com/tbaschak/nagios-configs-with-git

Who I Am

• Primary Network Administrator of VOI Network Solutions – Winnipeg-based commercial Internet Service Provider and carrier.
• Involved with both Internet Exchanges in Winnipeg.
  • Elected member on the Board of Directors for MBIX.
  • Also involved with the creation and technical operations of WpgIX.
• Avid opensource software user/fanatic, and recently, contributor.

My Life with Nagios

• Running Nagios since ~2006.
  • Mainly for ISP monitoring.
  • Mainly active checks from a central host.
  • Also agent based checks (NRPE, Salt)
• I run 2 distributed Nagios processes.
  • 1 on Voi Networks (v4/v6)
  • 1 on Vultr (v4/v6)

Why Manage Configs w/ Git?

• Automatically backs up your configs.
• Easy to view when changes were made, and what exact changes were made.
  • Patches can be made to distribute changes to other instances.

Questions / End

• Question & Answer period as time permits.