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From: Tobias Scherbaum <dertobi123@g.o>
To: gentoo-doc@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-doc] Nagios 3 guide
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 11:52:40
Message-Id: 1217159555.2590.3.camel@homer.ob.libexec.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-doc] Nagios 3 guide by Sven Vermeulen
1 Sven Vermeulen wrote:
2 > On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o> wrote:
3 > >> What I definitely need is some input on monitoring other systems (the
4 > >> NRPE plugin, with SSL, and check_ssh) with information about the
5 > >> differences between the methods (I suppose NRPE is a somewhat active
6 > >> approach whereas check_ssh is more a passive "pull" approach).
7 > >
8 > > Well, those aren't the only options. In fact, I recommend using
9 > > *neither* of them, unless your hosts are on a remote network.
10 >
11 > Is it possible to monitor multiple systems (with Nagios) without
12 > NRPE/ssh but still on the same /nagios site? Or do you log on to every
13 > single system to obtain the monitoring overview of all services on
14 > that system?
15
16 Guess Chris was referring to monitor boxes on a local network using SNMP
17 (for which we have net-analyzer/nagios-plugins-snmp in addition to the
18 standard snmp checks from the nagios-plugins package).
19
20 Tobias
21 --
22 Gentoo Linux - Die Metadistribution
23 http://www.mitp.de/1769

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