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<DIV><SPAN class=716532406-14042004><FONT face=Arial size=2>First many thanks to
Ethan for babycaring the wonderfull tool.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<P><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=716532406-14042004>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).</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=716532406-14042004>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 e</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial
size=2><SPAN class=716532406-14042004>ase integration:</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=716532406-14042004>1)
Other system/network tools such as MRTG etc... would be able to retreive
data in a *normal* way from Nagios.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=716532406-14042004>2) Other legacy
monitoring tools could retrieve group, host or service statuses from
Nagios.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=716532406-14042004>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)</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=716532406-14042004>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)</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=716532406-14042004>So ok,
</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=716532406-14042004>- SNMP is not "as
secure" as NRPE,</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=716532406-14042004>- Thinking and
building the MIB is a lot of work.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=716532406-14042004>- They are
other ways to achieve most of the above with the current
Nagios.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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class=716532406-14042004></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=716532406-14042004>Still... I think it's
worth a tough. </SPAN></FONT></P>
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