Agenda for Nordic Nagios Meet

There is a reason why it is called it Nordic Nagios Meet rather then conference. The aim is to create a 24 hour meeting between users, developers and key persons within the Open Source IT operation industry.

Each speaker session will include a mix of presentation, open discussions, panels and direct polls.


June 3, day one

11:30 Registration and networking lunch

13.00 The meeting begins with Ethan Galstad opens the first Nordic Nagios Meet
- Short welcome and presentation of the agenda

13:15 Introduction of the Nagios project
- Nagios usage trends and industry adoption
- Examples of Nagios implementations from around the world
Ethan Galstad
Founder of the Nagios Project

14:00 Short Brake

14:10 Case Story: How Linden Labs is pushing Nagios to the limit
- Nagios at Linden Labs
- Handling scalability and reliability problems
- Extending the alerting subsystem
- Dashboards, data collection and aggregation
- Pushing Nagios to the limit - can Nagios be used as a single monitoring and graphing application?
Spike Morelli
Production Operations Engineer
Linden Lab (Second Life)

15.00 Coffee

15.25 Maximize your utilization by working with RRDtool and Nagios
- RRDtool 101
- Scaling RRDtool
- Performance improvements
Tobias Oetiker,
Founder RRD Tool

16:15 Break

NEW SPEAKER
16:20 Case Story: Large scale Windows monitoring
- The use of Nagios in Varner Group
- The journey from NetSaint to Nagios 
- What is Nagios key success factors?
Inge Erling Kjølsvik
Head of Infrastructure at Varner Retail

17:00-17:30 Summation with open discussion with speakers

19.30 Evening event with dinner, bar and entertainment
- Welcome drink
- Bar
- Entertainment
- Having fun!


June 4, day two

08:15 Morning Coffee

08.30 Community developed source code as base for commercial software?
- Are there any conflicts of interests?
- What are the benefits for the community with a commercial player involved in the project?
- Monitoring RHEL 5 with Nagios
Jan Hedström
Senior Solution Architect
RedHat Europe

09.15 Short break

09.30 The enterprise requirements on open source NMS
- What is Nagios Community Advisory Board?
- Advantages of a plugable core
- Distributed computing and its benefits
- Redundancy with nagios
Andreas Ericsson
Member of Nagios Enterprises Community Advisory Board
op5

Andreas Presentation

10.15 Coffee break

10.45 Advanced log management with Syslog-NG
- Most important fields of a syslog message
- The problems with original BSD syslog vs. central logging
- Syslog security challenges
- Load balancing and fail over with Syslog-NG
- Redundancy and clustering
Balazs Scheidler
Founder SysLog-NG

11:30 Short break

11.40 The future of the Nagios project
- Roadmap
- 3.x development
Ethan Galstad
Founder of the Nagios Project

12:10 Concluding session

13:00 End of conference