RE: [Nagios-users] Newbie Would Like help Please

[<mmc...@pn...>]

Hi Simon.

I've placed my suggestions in-line.  Forgive me for my bluntness, but it
does sound like you are a bit over your head with this.  Might I suggest
that you seek the assistance of a consultant?  There are quite a few
individuals available for third-party support.  They are listed under:
http://www.nagios.org/support/independent.php

(Yes, I'm on there :)

Mike McClure
PNE Services, Inc.
http://www.pneservices.com



-----Original Message-----
From: nag...@li...
[mailto:nag...@li...] On Behalf Of Simon
Green
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 3:57 AM
To: 'nag...@li...'
Cc: 'net...@li...'
Subject: [Nagios-users] Newbie Would Like help Please

Hiya PPL,

I was looking at Nagios/Netsaint as a tool for out IT department.

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Excellent choice.  Very high bang for the buck.
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Here is my problem - We have 2 Subnets localy -
192.168.2.xxx/255.255.255.0
& 10.10.xxx.xxx/255.255.0.0. I would like to monitor these to network
from
the same Nagios box if possible. Does this mean i just need to network
cards?

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If you can route to both of them normally, then just one will work.  I
can't think of any reason that you'd need two, other than a firewall,
and in that case, one box that spans both networks is probably not a
good idea anyway.
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I would also like to assign one of our NET IP`s to this BOX. Again is
this
just a case of adding another network card in and plugging it into out
INET
backbone?

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Does this mean that you want to make it available from the public
Internet?  Again, probably not a very good idea, unless it's tightly
controlled (firewalled).
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The Other problem is that this box would need to be extremly secure. I I
would want on it is the secure component for Nagois/Netsaint and a SSL
telnet server. Nothing else. What Linux Distro would ppl suggest.

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I would suggest OpenBSD, arguably the most secure Unix-like operating
system available.  Almost everything is turned off by default.  I have
implemented several installations of Nagios running on OpenBSD 2.9 and
3.0.
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Also what Core Components would i need to install for Nagios/Netsaint to
run
and where could i download these?

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Well, besides the operating system (kernel, shared libraries), you'll
need a compiler and development tools like make (unless you use RPMs or
some other package), an HTTP server if you want to use the CGIs, and
sendmail or some other kind of MTA if you want to send mail for
notifications.  Perl and SNMP tools are useful as well.
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Is it possible for Nagios/Netsaint to monitor such things as proxy
server
bandwith?

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Depends on the proxy server, but bandwidth usually isn't a primary
concern on a proxy server anyway, things like hit/miss ratios and
request statistics are frequently more important.
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Sorry for all the questions

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No problemo, dude.
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Best Regards
Simon Green
IT Support Department
J R Rix & Son`s Limited

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