SNMP management for Nagios

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Goldberg Alain (IT) wrote:

> First many thanks to Ethan for babycaring the wonderfull tool.
>  
> 
> I have hooked Nagios to some weird/other/uncommon systems and
> applications here and it became in two months a major resource of
> information for our system and network management, creating a dramatic
> and happy shift-out from HP/OV for most purposes (Actually for all
> purposes we really care about recently).
> 
> Nagios itself has become a major component of the network-at-wide, and I
> have a strong (positive) feeling that if Nagios was SNMP manageable
> (I.E. not only using SNMP to gather statuses etc...) it would ease
> integration:
> 
> 1) Other system/network tools such as MRTG etc... would be able to
> retreive data in a *normal* way from Nagios.
> 
> 2) Other legacy monitoring tools could retrieve group, host or service
> statuses from Nagios.
> 
> 3) Facilitate exchange of status between Nagios systems. (I.e I could
> poll the Network Nagios server from the Systems Nagios server to
> retreive network-areas status)
> 
> 4) Provide a standard way to interface to Nagios for management purposes
> (I.E. I could build a GUI anyway i like as long as I fetch and set info
> to Nagios using SNMP)
> 
> So ok, 
> 
> - SNMP is not "as secure" as NRPE,
> 
> - Thinking and building the MIB is a lot of work.
> 
> - They are other ways to achieve most of the above with the current
> Nagios.
> 
>  
> 
> Still... I think it's worth a tough.  
> 
>  

FYI: Recently registered an enterprise OID for Nagios. 

2 part erroft - for mibs - 

1.  define traps for notifications
2.  define read-only mib groups for reading data out of v2's event daemon

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-sg



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