SNMP agents versus Nagios agents

[Jim Mozley]

Larry Crowder wrote:

>Hello all,
>
>I am in the process of drafting a comparison memo for my work and would like to ask if any out there either has done a similar evaluation, or can refer me to some specific comparative  information about this.   The comparison is between Nagios Agents and the SNMP agents of the Standard MIB - specifically RFC 2790.  To me, comparisons would focus on usefullness of data, difficulties of configuration, change management and security.
>  
>

The nagios agent will enable you to run any plugin and/or build your 
own, while using the MIB limits you to what is available from that MIB. 
For instance some of our mail servers run exim and I can check the queue 
on the remote server via nrpe using a plugin. This is not something 
that's available in the host MIB.

Jim


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