Sorry Mike, You are correct - I should have said 'I use nagios for SNMP'...
I have too many other boxes that don't speak 'ssh' and as such, try and use one method for all of them. In my environment, I do not pass any data (health data) which needs encryption, so SNMP is perfect for my requirements. Regards Andrew On Sunday 31 October 2004 15:25, Mike Gerber wrote: > > Nagios mainly uses SNMP to pull its data - authenitcated but not > > encrypted. > > That is just wrong. Nagios uses whatever you want to pull its data, if > you can script it, you can do it. Personally, I mainly use SSH to > execute Nagios plugins on remote servers. That's built-in in the > nagios-plugins (the plugin "check_by_ssh"). > > You can use SNMP, you can use NRPE, which is a special service, I even > got RSH-Support working (through my own script). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
