On 15 Sep 2004, Stephen Patterson wrote: > On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 10:20:15 +0200, Eduard Bosma wrote: > > Hi All! > > > > I'm looking at the home site of Nagios, and although it looks very > > promising, I can find the last missing piece of information: how does > > Nagios monitor the host? > > > The only way I've ever seen nagios monitor internal system states > (disc usage, cpu usage etc) is via SNMP. The check_snmp plugin > supports snmp 1 & 2, possibly 3 and has command-line options that can > be used to specify different get and set community names from the > default public/private, you could take advantage of this and use > different community names from the default on your snmp devices.
Alternately, there are three ways to get infor from plugins back to the Nagios server, they are NRPE, NSCA and check_by_ssh. One could also create a new scheme. More info at http://www.nagios.org Bill Carlson -- Systems Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Anything is possible, Virtual Hospital http://www.vh.org/ | given time and money. University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics | Opinions are mine, not my employer's. | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
