[Cialug] nagios

[John.Lengeling at radisys.com]

cialug-bounces at cialug.org wrote on 07/15/2005 09:14:44 AM:

> 
> I'm sorry I should have been more specific.
> 
> I wasn't asking for help, but more for general opinions about Nagios 
itself,
> how easy it is to set up and less-specifically any snags or gotchas 
people
> might recall from getting it to do some of the things I mentioned (I'm
> particularly interested in carrier pigeons).

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.

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)

It helps if you understand and can setup SNMP as a lot of the plugins use 
SNMP.

> 
> A case in point, there are diddly-squat available for resources on the
> digium website for setting up asterisk, all the good stuff is located
> somewhat non-intuitively at www.voip-info.org .  Maybe somebody knows of 
a
> nagios-gurus site or better yet, 
www.hidden-from-google-guide-to-nagios.com
> that they would reference.

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.

> 
> Maybe somebody will say "forget nagios, you want sysbitch for system
> monitoring" and then proceed to tell me why.

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, 

> 
> When I ask for help I use my whining voice. (if you have kids, you know 
the
> one)
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