[wplug] Slightly OT -- Nagios

[Jason Carr]

Thanks for the free plug Ryan :)

Nagios has quite a bit of configuration files and can get a little
confusing.  If you have any questions, you can always contact me via
email or on IRC.

It's definitely worth it if you want to monitor multiple ports on
systems, such as making sure your MySQL server is still running,
instead of just checking if it responds to a ping.  If you just need
pinging, there's a lot easier products to work with.

Again, let me know if there's anything I can help you with.

- Jason


On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 12:35:47PM -0500, Ryan Brown wrote:
> jason^ on the IRC chat room setup Nagios for my company. You may want to
> consult / hire him. He did an excellent job.
> 
> Ryan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Teodorski, Christopher [mailto:Christopher.Teodorski at ddiworld.com] 
> Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 12:30 PM
> To: General user list
> Subject: RE: [wplug] Slightly OT -- Nagios
> 
> It was.  I was hesitant to invest to much energy into it -- just to find out
> it doesn't do what I want.
> 
> Maybe if I get it all up and running -- I can give a presentation on it ;)
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wplug-bounces+christopher.teodorski=ddiworld.com at wplug.org
> [mailto:wplug-bounces+christopher.teodorski=ddiworld.com at wplug.org]On
> Behalf Of Bill Moran
> Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 12:24 PM
> To: General user list
> Cc: Teodorski, Christopher
> Subject: Re: [wplug] Slightly OT -- Nagios
> 
> 
> "Teodorski, Christopher" <Christopher.Teodorski at ddiworld.com> wrote:
> 
> > I've been looking at Nagios to handle system monitoring.  I've read 
> > some places where people say Nagios is a nightmare to configure and 
> > others who say it's not so difficult.
> > 
> > I wonder if anyone in the group has had an experience with Nagios (I 
> > seem to remember someone saying they did when I asked about Sysmon 
> > awhile back).  Also, has anyone had an experience monitoring Windows 
> > hosts with Nagios?  Most of the production stuff I'd be looking to 
> > monitor is Windows.
> 
> I did some prelim stuff with Nagios, so I can't say anything about it in
> detail, but I can comment on the complexity of it.
> 
> Nagios is VERY complex.  You're looking at an entire day just to get the
> configs ready to go (in my estimation).
> 
> However, it's like that because it's VERY powerful.  You can monitor
> anything.  It has a plug-in framework so you can write your own monitoring
> commands and have them plug in to Nagios.  You can do everything from basic
> ping and tcp connect monitoring, to having Nagios clients running on the
> machines.  I don't think you'll hit much that Nagios won't do for you ...
> even with Windows servers.
> 
> I don't know too much more, but I hope this was helpful.
> 
> --
> Bill Moran
> Potential Technologies
> http://www.potentialtech.com
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