Monitoring your Drupal server and site

Track: 
Coder
Experience: 
Intermediate

This talk will be split between monitoring a Drupal server and managing the deployment of such Drupal servers.
In the monitoring part I will cover:
A brief intro on what monitoring is and why anyone would want to use it.
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.

  • Where to find Nagios plugins.
  • How to write one when it does not exist yet.
  • Automated responses to problems.
  • Nagios extensions for logging and graphing.
  • Securely monitoring remote servers.
Intended audience: 

Intermediate sys-admins

Questions answered by this session
Question 1: 
What is monitoring?
Question 2: 
Why did we choose Nagios?
Question 3: 
What can Nagios do?
Question 4: 
How does Nagios work?
Question 5: 
How does Nagios integrate with Drupal?
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Difference between this session and the other Nagios session?

Can you please describe if there is any difference between your session proposal and this one: http://chicago2011.drupal.org/sessions/know-where-fire-nagios-plugin-and...

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