Lucas Schill Brent Grover Ed Schilla Advisor: Danny Miller

Overview  Comparison of Nagios, Shinken, and Icinga Performance comparison of common features Usability Scalability Extra feature testing for usability Scoring procedures

Goals  Provide an in-depth analysis of the software. System load Network Load Usability  Complete the project this semester

Setbacks  Hardware Atom lacking virtualization support Bad RAM  Support OS support Software support

Network design

Servers HostnameOperating System PurposeProcessorRAM pfSensepfSense 2.0.1RoutingDual P3 1GHz3GB SINSVR01RHEL 6.3IcingaDual P4 2.8GHz2GB SINSVR02RHEL 6.3NagiosDual P4 2.8GHz2GB SINSVR03RHEL 6.3ShinkenDual P4 2.8GHz2GB SINSVR05Debian 6.0.7KVM HostCore2quad 2.5GHz6GB SINSVR06Debian 6.0.7Multi-purposeDual P3 1GHz2GB SINSVR07Debian 6.0.7KVM HostDual-core Opteron 2GHz4GB SINSVR08Debian 6.0.7StorageAtom 1.66GHz4GB SINSVR09Debian 6.0.7KVM HostCore2quad 2.4GHz2GB SINSVR10Debian 6.0.7KVM HostQuad-core AMD 2.5GHz8GB

Client Setup  KVM 4 host machines 297 Debian clients Scripted installation and management Minimal client installation ○ 64MB RAM ○ 1GB disk space  Windows Clients 3 Windows 7 clients with NSClient++  100 clients for each software suite

Where We Are Now  Configuring the three programs for our environment  Familiarizing ourselves with each piece of software  Configuring new hardware with clients  Documentation

Nagios  Version  Written in C  Web Interface Exfoliation  Nagios Open Source Free to use Forum Support  Nagios XI User Interface Framework Enterprise Support

Nagios (continued)  Nagios Version 4 Not yet available Complete rewrite  Support Currently unable to receive direct support

Nagios - Thoughts  Simple Could use more features  Difficult to configure Confusing configuration file layout Would be better with a database as a backend

Icinga  Version  Modular  Written in C  Classic Web Automated Apache integration  Icinga-cmd group Apache, Icinga user, etc  Authentication

Icinga(continued)  Check scripts run locally Check_by_ssh  Similar to Nagios  Third party plugins/scripts Embedded perl interpretation  Config changes so far: Check intervals

Icinga(continued)  Windows integration  Icinga 2.0  New Web

Icinga - Thoughts  Quick  Highly customizable  Easy to install  Not very independent, or a “Fork”  Easy to change the installation (modular)  Third party scripts - simple

Shinken  Version  Designed as a Nagios drop in replacement that provides many of the features Nagios lacks by default  Written in Python  Open source  Very modular

Shinken So Far  Custom built installer Installs all dependencies, configures the system, and can install additional plug-ins.  Configuration Complex, Nagios with Shinken mixed in Skonf WebUI

Accomplishments  Integrated WDS/PXE  Website  Scripted installation of 300 virtual machines  Collectd

Budget Starting Funds$ Second Semester Funds$ Spent Funds($119.68) Remaining Funds$ Spend Funds Detailed Rail Clips($27.54) 2x Atom Servers($52.14) 4x SCSI Hard Drives($40.00) Planned Spending 2x4GB DDR3 RAM($73.24) Planned Remaining Funds$407.08

Where we are headed  Finish configuring Customization of network monitoring systems  Research and write scripts to run checks  Stress test Performance Reliability  Finish rubric  Grade each software based on rubric

Questions?