<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2668" name=GENERATOR>
<STYLE></STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgColor=#ffffff>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I need to go get bifocals to read the below
font:)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE
style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=John.Lengeling@radisys.com
href="mailto:John.Lengeling@radisys.com">John.Lengeling@radisys.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=cialug@cialug.org
href="mailto:cialug@cialug.org">Central Iowa Linux Users Group</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, July 15, 2005 9:34 AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Cialug] nagios</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><BR><FONT size=2><TT><A
href="mailto:cialug-bounces@cialug.org">cialug-bounces@cialug.org</A> wrote on
07/15/2005 09:14:44 AM:<BR><BR>> <BR>> I'm sorry I should have been more
specific.<BR>> <BR>> I wasn't asking for help, but more for general
opinions about Nagios itself,<BR>> how easy it is to set up and
less-specifically any snags or gotchas people<BR>> might recall from
getting it to do some of the things I mentioned (I'm<BR>> particularly
interested in carrier pigeons).</TT></FONT> <BR><BR><FONT size=2><TT>I have
been running OSS network monitors for over 7+ years. I have also been
exposed to several commercial packages that our IT department has tried to use
over the years.</TT></FONT> <BR><BR><FONT size=2><TT>Nagios is by far the more
flexible and comprehensive. I think it is easy to configure once you are
over the learning curve, but as long as you start with just a few hosts and
start with a few services you can quickly get up to speed and add more
complicated monitors. As with all networking monitoring packages you
need to have some experience with scripting (Perl, SH, etc)</TT></FONT>
<BR><BR><FONT size=2><TT>It helps if you understand and can setup SNMP as a
lot of the plugins use SNMP.</TT></FONT> <BR><FONT size=2><TT><BR>>
<BR>> A case in point, there are diddly-squat available for resources on
the<BR>> digium website for setting up asterisk, all the good stuff is
located<BR>> somewhat non-intuitively at www.voip-info.org . Maybe
somebody knows of a<BR>> nagios-gurus site or better yet,
www.hidden-from-google-guide-to-nagios.com<BR>> that they would
reference.</TT></FONT> <BR><BR><FONT size=2><TT>The Nagios Exchange website is
good and the Nagio mailing lists are very active. Ask the CIALUG list
too since there appears to be a few Nagios users.</TT></FONT> <BR><FONT
size=2><TT><BR>> <BR>> Maybe somebody will say "forget nagios, you want
sysbitch for system<BR>> monitoring" and then proceed to tell me
why.</TT></FONT> <BR><BR><FONT size=2><TT>I would say forget BigBrother.
I ran it for 3-4 years, I like Nagios much better, scales larger, uses
less resources, more features, uses Perl versus Shell for scripting,
<BR></TT></FONT><BR><FONT size=2><TT>> <BR>> When I ask for help I use
my whining voice. (if you have kids, you know the<BR>> one)<BR></TT></FONT>
<P>
<HR>
<P></P>_______________________________________________<BR>Cialug mailing
list<BR>Cialug@cialug.org<BR>http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>