[Sheflug] Re: [man-lug] www.nagios.org

[fred <fred.dodd [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 09:46, Carl Windsor wrote:
> I work for a colocation company and we use Nagios to monitor both our 
> internal server and network infrastructure and our customer equipment.
> 
> It is an excellent tool if you are looking to perform monitoring of servers 
> and network connectivity, escalation and basic reporting.  Out of the box, 
> it is not as suitable for high end network stats (e.g throughput, BGP 
> peering, route flaps etc. monitoring) but there is the option to integrate 
> it with MRTG which I am looking into at the moment.
> 
> The only other drawback is that the default config is to use flat files for 
> all data storage.  This is OK for small deployments but doesn't scale well.  
> Their support for backend databases appears to be in flux at the moment and 
> they may be pulling it altogether prior to a code rewrite to convert the 
> front end from CGI to PHP.
> 
> If you need any help with the configuration (especially the alerting/paging, 
> let me know and I can provide examples).


Yes please if you could, looked over the samples cfg files, but need
smaller examples to work from, working mine on Mandrake 9.1 with flat
files for small lan, as a learning curve!!

thanks for your reply


fred dodd
> 
> There are also several other tools to consider, depending on your 
> requirements.  Check out
> 
> BigSister (OpenSource Big Brother Clone) http://bigsister.graeff.com/
> SNIPS http://www.netplex-tech.com/software/snips/
> OpenNMS http://www.sortova.com/tools/opennms/opennms/
> 
> Regards
> Carl Windsor
> 
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