Know where the fire is (the Nagios plugin and server)

Track: 
Implementation and Config
Experience: 
Intermediate

Drupal shops often grow organically with staff members providing their own support. Monitoring the status of a site or equipment is often not in the equation. How can we provide monitoring and support to internal and external customers with Drupal installs and servers running both in house and remotely?

The answer is Nagios an open source monitoring system. Take a VM image or an old pc and create a system that will actively check all your Drupal sites, their servers and MySQL servers and notify you when anything goes wrong, down or gets plain overloaded. Nagios can give you the ability to know, evaluate and repair a problem before the client ever knows something is wrong.

You will still have to put out the fire but at least you will know there is smoke before anyone else.

Intended audience: 

Drupal consultants, Techs, Server Administrators the people who need to know first if a site goes down.

Questions answered by this session
Question 1: 
How can I monitor the health of al the Drupal sites my company and its clients have?
Question 2: 
Is it possible to monitor sites, webservers, sql servers and other hardware?
Question 3: 
How does one configure the nagios drupal plugin?
Question 4: 
What does a nagios system look like?
Question 5: 
How can Nagios make my staff all knowing?
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