[PLUG] system monitoring tool

[Morthland, Cam]

This is pretty timely for me as I have spent MANY hours recently setting
up Nagios to monitor my environment (mostly MS/Compaq-HP/Cisco).  

The problem I am running into is that to really utilize Nagios, it seems
you have to know a LOT about SNMP and MIB's so that you can perform
checks using check_snmp.  

Am I missing the boat somehere?  I just haven't found a lot of examples
on the web for "stock" configs to monitor Cisco devices.  Nor have I
found out how to implement the Cisco MIBs into the Nagios environment.
I have installed nrpe_nt and that seems like it will do what I want it
to for my Win environment.

Is there anyone out here that has some good Cisco configs that is
willing to share?

Thanks in advance,

Cam 
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Bonds [mailto:1s7k8uhcd001 at sneakemail.com] 
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 7:55 AM
To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
Subject: Re: [PLUG] system monitoring tool

On Sun, 8 Aug 2004, Wil Cooley wcooley-at-nakedape.cc |PDX Linux| wrote:

> On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 08:30, Matt Alexander wrote:
>
> > Nagios (http://www.nagios.org) also looks good.  Has anyone that's
> > used both Nagios and Zabbix give some pros/cons?
>
> I haven't used Zabbix, so I cannot really compare the two, but I'm
> pretty happy with Nagios.

I've also used Nagios and have been very happy with it.  Its "stock"
monitors give more reliable information than those included with
Openview,
and I've had a much easier time finding additional plugins for Nagios
than
Openview.  (To the point that I wrote a simple script to run a Nagios
plugin and convert its output to Openview-style so that I can use Nagios
plugins within Openview. ;-)

Like most monitoring frameworks, there is some effort to integrate it
with
more specialized monitors (e.g. SNMP) but additional plugins are pretty
straightforward to write.

  -- Steve

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