[wplug] Slightly OT -- Nagios

[Zachary Uram]

Hi Jason,

You hang out on freenode? Is it worth running on a laptop that isn't
connected 24x7? I use dialup modem for access. What do you think of
SNORT? I never setup a firewall before - any suggestions how I can get
started? I don't know how to write iptables/ipchains rule sets yet. I
use PPP with PAP. Right now my system has basically no security added
to it beyond Debian unstable/Linux default settings. I want to get 'up
to speed' on security.It's such a huge domain of knowledge I'm not
sure how to get started. I want my machine to be as secure as possible
using the FOSS tools available.

Zach


On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 14:58:03 -0500, Jason Carr <jason
@flacid.org> wrote:
> 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
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