UCE from Clearcentral Software

[Greg Vickers]

Hi all,

Below is a message I received from Clearcentral Software - has anyone else 
received this (i.e. have they harvested email addx from nagios.org) or is 
this just me?

I'll be sending them a strongly worded message and will be filtering 
messages from clearcentral.net to /tmp/spam I think...

Greg

>X-Mailer: Smartcode ObjectSet 1.0
>From: "Tim Shouldice" <tim at clearcentral.net>
>Subject: Nagios and BMC Patrol - does your organization use both?
>Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 14:18:00 +0000
>Organization: ClearCentral Software Inc.
>To: <g.vickers at qut.edu.au>
>
>Attention Nagios users:
>
>
>Many organizations perform server monitoring with BMC Patrol. However, 
>many of the same organizations also use Nagios.
>
>Nagios provides a wide assortment of network service monitoring plug-ins 
>such as SSH, Telnet, DNS, HTTP, FTP, NFS and countless others. BMC Patrol 
>on the other hand includes none of these with the standard Unix or Windows 
>Operating System knowledge modules.
>
>BMC clients can purchase the Internet Services Manager, an add-in tool to 
>monitor web-related services. This add-in however is priced per server and 
>per monitored server so it gets very expensive to monitor even a moderate 
>number of servers.
>
>Both Patrols ISM and Nagios promote an architecture of remote monitoring 
>of network services. Patrol promotes this due the high cost of the 
>Internet Services Manager. Nagios promotes this because of its centralized 
>architecture. Some Nagios users install Nagios and the full suite of 
>plug-ins on each server and submit the results using passive checks, but 
>this prevents any centralization of configuration.
>
>However, monitoring network services remotely is not an effective method. 
>Disruptions to the network (which are very common) cause multiple false 
>alerts. Busy networks cause intermittent false alerts. The proper solution 
>is to perform service monitoring locally on each host. This can be done 
>with Patrol.
>
>To monitor network services from BMC Patrol in a cost-effective manner, 
>ClearCentral Software Inc. has released the Net Services Knowledge Module 
>for Patrol. This knowledge module (KM) is sold on a site-license basis, 
>enabling it to be installed on every server in a client's Patrol 
>environment. Yet, as a Patrol knowledge module, it is still configured and 
>viewed from the central Patrol Console.
>
>The KM uses the same plug-in architecture as Nagios and includes a custom 
>check function where any user-written script or executable can be added 
>into the Patrol environment. Many of the current Nagios plug-ins can be 
>added with no modification.
>
>A 31-day evaluation copy of the knowledge module is available from 
>ClearCentral's web site at 
><http://www.clearcentral.net>www.clearcentral.net. Use of the KM requires 
>an existing Patrol installation of at least one console and one Patrol 
>agent. Client's wishing a full evaluation kit including a printed copy of 
>the manual can get one by emailing 
><mailto:sales at clearcentral.net>sales at clearcentral.net.
>
>Timothy Shouldice
>ClearCentral Software Inc.
><http://www.clearcentral.net>www.clearcentral.net
>
>Specifications:
>
>Services Monitored:
>
>DNS
>FTP
>IMAP
>LDAP
>NEWS
>NFS
>PING
>POP
>SMTP
>SSH
>Telnet
>Websites
>SSL Websites
>Website Content checks
>User-defined TCP
>User-defined UDP
>User-defined RPC
>Custom Check (user supplied script)
>
>Supported Agent Platforms:
>
>Linux
>Solaris
>Windows NT and Windows 2000
>HP-UX
>(other platform releases in progress, email a request for details)
>
>Supported Patrol Consoles
>
>Classic Windows Console
>Classic Unix Console
>Patrol Central Windows Console
>Patrol Central Web Console

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Greg Vickers
Computer Systems Officer
Student Support and Systems,
Teaching and Learning Support Systems,
Queensland University of Technology,
Kelvin Grove Campus,
Brisbane,
Australia

CRICOS No 00213J

Ph: 07 3864 8276 Fax: 07 3864 5425
Mob: 0416 001 674 SD: #66147 
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