Alan Wijntje - Monitoring with Opsview
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Leverage the power of Opsview to effectively monitor your physical, virtual, and private cloud infrastructure
Overview
- Add plugins to Windows and Linux agents
- Set up vSphere monitoring successfully
- Easy to follow, step-by-step guide on how to get your Opsview system up and running
In Detail
Monitoring increasingly complex IT environments can pose quite a challenge. Virtualization and cloud-based applications are finding their way into many IT estates over the world. Keeping a watchful eye out for your infrastructure is now more important than ever, and Opsview allows you to do just that.
Monitoring with Opsview is a practical guide to the entire Opsview product range, consisting of various examples and screenshots to help you get up and running with Opsview. This book will show you the powerful features and modules available in Opsview, and will help you create an Opsview-based monitoring system suited for your needs.
Starting with the installation of your own Opsview Core system, we will then go through the basic configuration followed by the various special features of the system, using practical examples to show how we can make use of these features. After covering the Core system, we will later look at the Pro and Enterprise offerings and how their additional features can benefit you.
You will learn about the unique features of Opsview like viewing (and interacting with) your IT estate from mobile devices like smartphones and tablets, creating special views with keywords, and using templates for fast configurations. From there, we will move on to the Pro and Enterprise systems, looking at the powerful modules available like distributed monitoring and reporting, and finishing it all off with a discussion of the eye-catching dashboards.
Monitoring with Opsview will show you the power of the Opsview system, keywords, attributes, dashboards, and all the tools you need to get that single view into your entire IT estate.
What you will learn from this book
- Configure contacts and roles for access
- Create and using host templates and host attributes
- Use advanced features like keywords and keyword views
- View and interact with Opsview using mobile devices
- Use Autodiscovery to scan for new hosts (including VMs).
- Perform network analyses with NetFlow
- Scale your system with slaves
- Develop and deploy dashboards for powerful visualization.
Approach
A practical and fast-paced guide that gives you all the information you need to get up and running with Opsview.
Who this book is written for
This book is for anyone interested in using Opsview as a potential monitoring solution or for those who are already running Opsview Core and who would like to improve on their setup by exploring the features of Pro and Enterprise.
Some working knowledge of monitoring and Linux is assumed, and it is recommended to have an Opsview system at hand while reading, allowing you to immediately try out the features discussed.
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First published: December 2013
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Author
Alan Wijntje
Reviewers
Duncan Ferguson
Jesse A. Griffin
Surendra Mohan
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Alan Wijntje has been working in the IT field since 2000 when he started out as a simple technician providing local IT support to various companies.
Figuring out why something broke (and then fixing it) soon became his specialty, and he outgrew this job within a couple of years; his employer was quick to recognize this, and within days, he was given a new assignment to work on the NOC for a major Dutch ISP.
After settling in, Alan quickly started to get to grips with the various monitoring systems and was soon making various improvements.
His love for Linux was a great asset when he was granted more and more freedom to tinker with various systems, including Netcool OMNIbus and Nagios.
After three years (and a company merger), Alan moved to another department that was solely responsible for all monitoring systems (most notable were Netcool OMNIbus and Nagios), and he was put in charge of all Nagios-based systems.
Running a lot of separate Nagios systems was, however, a lot of work and soon plans were made to move to a more user-friendly, flexible, and scalable solution.
Opsview was introduced as the replacement, and the system was built in record time after which Alan spent most of his time writing new plugins, fixing plugins, thinking up new ways of tackling various monitoring requirements (such as using Selenium for web-based tests), and so on.
After about three years of being the Opsview administrator, Alan again moved his department to join one of the networking teams (his other passion) where he got to play around with data center switches, virtual switches, and firewalls.
Although, technically, he is no longer an Opsview administrator, he still loves to help out (sometimes a bit too much some would say), write plugins, and even spend lots of time on the Opsview forum and the #opsview IRC channel helping others out.
Alan has worked for the Dutch company, QNH, since he started in IT, and over the years, they have always been quick to recognize his interests and talents and have helped him develop these skills (even some he never knew he had).
Now I'm sure I'll forget to thank someone when I finish this, so I apologize for this beforehand.
I do know for sure I need to thank my girlfriend Karin, my family, and friends (especially Jurriaan for being my "nerd buddy") for letting me off the hook whenever I had to cancel or postpone dates while writing this book.
A very big thank-you to the guys at Opsview and a special thank-you to Duncan, Neil, Ton, Rob, and Adnan for all their help and support over the years that I have been running/using/playing around with Opsview (and for listening to me whenever I have some weird and wild feature request or idea).
Of course the guys in my old monitoring team: Arjan, Frans, Job, and Robin for letting me build and be in charge of the Opsview environment and helping me out whenever I needed support.
A special thank-you must also go to Duncan, Jesse, and Surendra, who reviewed this book and did a fantastic job by keeping me on my toes and providing essential feedback and recommendations.
And last but not the least I would like to thank the people at QNH and specially my manager Ruud and our Qniversity manager Diana for supporting me on this endeavor and for always helping me out with whatever I needed.
Duncan Ferguson works at Opsview Limited and has been working with Opsview since early 2007. In this time, he has worked on feature design, development, and provided consultancy for the product. He is currently the Support Team Leader and acts as the third-line support for all issues, although he still acts in other capacities as required, including diving into the code to fix problems.
He looks after a number of freeware projects and Perl modules as well as authoring and maintaining ClusterSSH, a popular administration tool.
In what remains of his spare time, Duncan is a devoted father, husband, animal carer, scuba diver, and skier, although not all at the same time.
Jesse A. Griffin is a system administrator with experience in Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows. Day-to-day, he designs, implements, and maintains clusters, databases, e-mail systems, highly available storage, monitoring systems, websites, and performs all types of open source administration tasks for clients around the world.
When not working, he teaches Old Testament and the Hebrew language at his church. He also provides consulting services for several nonprofit and educational institutions.
I would like to thank tummy.com, ltd. for allowing me the time to review this book.
Surendra Mohan is currently serving as Drupal Consultant-cum-Drupal Architect at a well-known software consulting organization in India. Prior to joining this organization, he served a few Indian MNCs and a couple of startups in varied roles, such as Programmer, Technical Lead, Project Lead, Project Manager, Solution Architect, and Service Delivery Manager. He has around nine years of working experience in web technologies covering media and entertainment, real estate, travel and tours, publishing, e-learning, enterprise architecture, and so on. He is also a speaker-cum-trainer who delivers talks on Drupal, Open Source, PHP, Moodle, and so on, along with organizing and delivering TechTalks in Drupal meetups and Drupal Camps in Mumbai, India.
He also runs his blog at http://www.surendramohan.info/, mainly discussing hot, new, and upcoming technical topics. Moreover, he is the author of the book
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