Re: network monitoring

[Andrew Miehs <andrew@2sheds.de>]

Sorry Mike,

You are correct - I should have said 'I use nagios for SNMP'...

I have too many other boxes that don't speak 'ssh' and as such, try and
use one method for all of them. In my environment, I do not pass any
data (health data) which needs encryption, so SNMP is perfect for my 
requirements.

Regards

Andrew

On Sunday 31 October 2004 15:25, Mike Gerber wrote:
> > Nagios mainly uses SNMP to pull its data - authenitcated but not
> > encrypted.
>
> That is just wrong. Nagios uses whatever you want to pull its data, if
> you can script it, you can do it. Personally, I mainly use SSH to
> execute Nagios plugins on remote servers. That's built-in in the
> nagios-plugins (the plugin "check_by_ssh").
>
> You can use SNMP, you can use NRPE, which is a special service, I even
> got RSH-Support working (through my own script).