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[Nagios-project] Nagios just a monitoring tool?

[Anny M. <ang...@gm...>]

Hello,

     I've recently started making a research on Network Management Systems
(NMS) for IP Networks and have a basic doubt that i'd hope someone could
help me out with. As far as I understand some tools are able to not only
monitor but also react to traps and set configurations on your devices. Is
Nagios capable of not only monitoring but also configuring the external
devices it is monitoring? A second doubt would be: is there any plugin that
supports showing the topology map of the network being monitored?

Thanks!

[Nagios-project] Is Nagios the right tool for me?

[Lou L. <lou...@gm...>]

There is SO much information and documentation about Nagios - it seems
impossible to filter through all the info to find what I'm looking for.  So
I think I'll ask the Nagios User Community, if that's okay, because if
anyone will know the answer to my question,  it'll be someone on this list.

I have a need to summarize outbound http traffic on a small network, User
and/or ip address and destination.  The purpose is to assure compliance with
a newly formulated Internet Usage Policy.  I have access to router logs and
I have no desire to install agents on individual User PC's.  Is Nagios the
right tool for me?

Lou

Re: [Nagios-project] Nagios Agent-less features

[Tony Y. <tya...@na...>]

On 4/19/2010 2:59 AM, Axelis wrote:
> To develop our custom application, we would use the Java Port of 
> Nagios, Blue.
> Nagios (Blue) seems to be a good solution but our client prefer 
> an agent-less solution. They don't want to install anything on their side.
>
> I heard Nagios can be used without installing an agent. But I couldn't 
> find how. We don't need real-time monitoring, a few minute delay is 
> acceptable. Do you have any info on that?

Some things can be monitored without an agent, but others can not.  
You'll be able to check anything that's available through TCP, UDP, 
ICMP, or SNMP without an agent, which would include such things as:
Is the host pingable?
Does a web server appear to be running on port 80?
SNMP status queries

You will not be able to get information about anything internal, like 
disk usage or host load, without an agent unless it is made available 
through SNMP.

-- 
Tony Yarusso
Technical Team
___
Nagios Enterprises, LLC
Email:  tya...@na...
Web:    www.nagios.com

[Nagios-project] Nagios Agent-less features

[Axelis <axe...@gm...>]

Hello,

I am currently looking for a network monitoring system for a project in my
company. During my research I found Nagios and it seems very powerful. I've
been looking through the documentation but I need to confirm some points.

For my project, we need to monitor multiple servers running on various OS
(Linux or Windows) from a Windows based monitoring custom application
written in Java (RAP).

We want to monitor

   - many information concerning the network and hardware from servers (disk
   space, CPU usage, memoryage, traffic...) to routers, etc..
   - We also need to check the services availability (FTP, HTTP, SNMP...).
   - On a software level, we need to get information about applications like
   Tomcat and databases.

To develop our custom application, we would use the Java Port of Nagios,
Blue.
Nagios (Blue) seems to be a good solution but our client prefer
an agent-less solution. They don't want to install anything on their side.

I heard Nagios can be used without installing an agent. But I couldn't find
how. We don't need real-time monitoring, a few minute delay is acceptable.
Do you have any info on that?

Thanks in advance for your help and thanks for your work!
Best regards.

-- 
Alex