[Cialug] nagios

[Jon Clemons]

I need to go get bifocals to read the below font:)

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: John.Lengeling at radisys.com 
  To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group 
  Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 9:34 AM
  Subject: RE: [Cialug] nagios



  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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