Re: [nagios] killer config
I'm confused by your comparison of HP Openview and Nagios. Nagios only
does monitoring of hosts and services (is it up?). Nagios does not do
SNMP configuration such things that HP Openview can do.
That said, I feel your frustration with Nagios configuration. I work
with Nagios in a corporate environment and try to make it fit the
needs.
Nagios is pretty good for free, and the author is well-intentioned,
but it's woefully inadequate in some areas, such as configuration
flexibility. Nagios is in desperate need of a relational database
back end, but the author/maintainer of the product doesn't seem to
agree, citing that it's easier to work with config files.
The limited (and poor) SQL DB support offered for the 1.x Nagios
line is gone in 2.x.
There is a product called OpenNMS that I really need to try out, but
have not gotten around to yet. I'm not sure if it's any better.
Your idea of using host based config files might be a good idea -- I've
never thought of doing that (nor do I think that was ever intended, but
if it works, great).
Depending upon how often you change your topology and how much change
goes on in your network, it might well be worth your while to use
something other than Nagios.
Good luck
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 12:46:39AM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Hello *,
>
> My network is around 90$ configured and now i am hanging with the
> config of nagios, because It seems that I must configure this
> killer up to the end of my life
>
> I have @home
>
> 3 3Com NETBuilder II (acting as BGP-4 router)
> (Later: Tetuan, Quijda and Agadir)
> 3 ADSL-Modem-Router connected to the 3 previous one
> 17 Servers
> 3 Workststions
> 5 Switches
> 4 FiberOptic Repeaters
> 4 8-Chanel OC-3 Multipexer
> 1 Lucent Stinger IP DSLAM
>
> and in my Bureau
>
> 1 3Com NETBuilder II
> 1 ADSL Modem-Router
> 38 Server
> 8 Workstsions
> 11 Switches
> 17 Repeater
> 3 ZyXEL IES-1000
> 4 US Robotics Total Control
>
> Now I need to control this Network via SNMP und what I can us with
> nagios...
>
> With HP OpenView it was done in less then 5 hours, but with nagios. :-(
>
> Does anyone have a Network of this dimension and bigger?
>
> Is ther no graphical GUI to setup the configs for the HOSTS? I
> am setuping to death! Is it better if I trash teh whole config
> of nagios and create my own one?
>
> My /etc/nagios/services.cfg is endless because I must whatch
> pop3, imap, http, ftp, discspace, procs and much more on many
> hosts.
>
> I was thinking, that I create ONE config file per HOST and
> include it with "cfg_file=/etc/nagios/hosts/<fqdn>.cfg" in
> my /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg.
>
> What do you think about ?
>
> Or is it better to code my own stuff for a network of this
> dimension ?
>
> Good night
> Michelle
>
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