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SUMMARY:Out-of-Band (BMC based) Data Center Monitoring DMTF Redfish API Int
 egration with Nagios
DESCRIPTION:Ghazanfar Ali and Yong Chen (Texas Tech University), Jon Hass 
 (Dell Inc), and Alan Sill (Texas Tech University)\n\nNagios is an industry
  standard for HPC infrastructure monitoring including hosts and associated
  hardware components, networks, storages, services, and applications. Howe
 ver, there are significant issues with traditional Nagios including 1) Nag
 ios requires human intervention for the definition and maintenance of remo
 te hosts configurations in Nagios Core.  2) It requires Nagios Remote Plug
 in Executor (NRPE) on Nagios Server and each monitored remote host.  3) It
  also mandates Nagios Service Check Acceptor (NSCA) on each monitored remo
 te host.  4) And also requires Check specific agents (e.g. SNMP) on each m
 onitored remote host. In order to address these issues, we have integrated
  Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF)’s Redfish API with Nagios core. 
 DMTF's Redfish API is an open industry standard specification and schema d
 esigned to meet the expectations of end users for simple, modern and secur
 e management of scalable platform hardware. Redfish API is essentially out
 -of-band protocol which is implemented in baseboard management controller 
 (BMC) of the system. Redfish API supports network-based auto-discovery whi
 ch is quite instrumental in automating configuration of remote hosts. Nagi
 os plugins will be directly communicating to BMC so it eliminates the requ
 irement of any agent and configuration on remote hosts. Redfish API integr
 ation with Nagios is potentially a huge paradigm shift in Nagios based mon
 itoring in terms of: 1) simplifying communication between Nagios server an
 d monitored hosts; and 2) eliminating computational cost and complexity of
  running Nagios native protocols (NRPE and NSCA) and other agents (SNMP) o
 n the monitored hosts.\n\nTag: Build Systems, Clouds and Distributed Compu
 ting, Data Analytics, Deep Learning, Education, HPC Center Planning and Op
 erations, Heterogeneous Systems, Resource Management, Scheduling, Scientif
 ic Computing, State of the Practice, Visualization, HPC, Containers, Datac
 enter, Industry, monitoring\n\nRegistration Category: Workshop Reg Pass\n\
 nSession Chairs: Yong Chen (Texas Tech University), Tim Cockerill (Texas A
 dvanced Computing Center (TACC)), Dong Dai (University of Delaware), and A
 lan Sill (Texas Tech University)\n\n
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