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From: "Matthew Summers; CEO
To: gentoo-doc@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-doc] Nagios 3 guide
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:16:57
Message-Id: 487384E4.8060108@liquidustech.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-doc] Nagios 3 guide by Chris Gianelloni
1 Chris Gianelloni wrote:
2 > On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 20:08 +0200, Sven Vermeulen wrote:
3 >> Always. I'm not familiar with Nagios (only on lappy and lguest test
4 >> images) so any help is appreciated. I just committed my current draft
5 >> state (not much, but it shows the structure I'm hoping to go with as
6 >> well as the content I want to address in the guide).
7 >
8 > Ahh. I use Nagios 2 and Nagios 3 to monitor Gentoo, Red Hat, NetApp
9 > Filers, Solaris, Cisco switches/routers/firewalls, power distribution
10 > units, etc.
11 >
12 >> What I definitely need is some input on monitoring other systems (the
13 >> NRPE plugin, with SSL, and check_ssh) with information about the
14 >> differences between the methods (I suppose NRPE is a somewhat active
15 >> approach whereas check_ssh is more a passive "pull" approach).
16 >
17 > Well, those aren't the only options. In fact, I recommend using
18 > *neither* of them, unless your hosts are on a remote network.
19 >
20 >> You're free to edit the guide, even with just some <pre> tags to help
21 >> me with the technical stuff :-)
22 >
23 > Sure. I'll send my edits here first, though.
24 >
25 Once these early drafts are in place I'll stick the interns on them for editing, etc.
26 I'm certainly looking forward to this bit o' doc!
27 Thanks,
28 Matt
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