Nagios in a large production network

[Bryan Liles]

On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 16:39:32 -0500
"Bishop, Dean" <dean.bishop at tcdsb.org> wrote:


> Network discovery is over-rated.  i did mine manually and found that
> setup was still very reasonable.  i found that tools that use
> autodiscovery ended up being more time consuming because i had to
> confirm everything.  This might just be me though.

Not quite true. If you have a 15,000 node network, discovery can be a
god send.  

> 
> hope this helps,
> dean
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Wilson [mailto:wilson at unity.ncsu.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 4:00 PM
> To: James Pifer
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios in a large production network
> 
> 
> yOn 20 Nov 2002, James Pifer wrote:
> 
> > I'm looking to replace our current network monitoring software. Last
> > I looked at this product it was Netsaint, so it's been a little
> > while. I've downloaded the latest version, but I have a few
> > questions.
> >
> > Is it "safe" to install Nagios on a production network and let it
> > discover everything?
> 
> Nagios doesn't do network discovery... You'll have to use something
> else for that, then export that data and build your nagios configs off
> of it somehow.  We're running nagios in a production environment with
> no issues. You tell it what to monitor and what type of things to do
> to your devices, so in essence, you have complete control over what
> nagios will do.  We're dumping CiscoWorks RME database *cringe* since
> it does a fairly decent job of network discovery... importing that
> data into mysql, then generating nagios configs from mysql.
> 
> > Are there any precautions I should be aware of?
> > Can Nagios collect and handle SNMP trap events? I don't see anything
> > on the web site about it.
> >
> > If not, can anyone recommend software to take care of that piece?
> 
> I don't think nagios can deal with traps..
> 
> Why not setup a ucd-snmp's snmptrapd and have it listen for your traps
> and perform actions based on certain criteria.   You can set it up to
> perform actions (fire off email, etc) depending on the mib recieved.
> 
> Brian
> 
> --
> Brian Wilson  <wilson at ncsu.edu>      Network Analyst
> Communication Technologies, ATD      W: 919.513.3472
> North Carolina State University      www.ncstate.net
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