re Nagios as a replacement for HP OpenView

[Stanley Hopcroft]

Dear Sir,

I am writing to thank you for your letter and say,

On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 08:03:13PM -0800, nagios-users-request at lists.sourceforge.net wrote:
> 
> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 23:34:21 -0700
> From: Greg King <wgking at shaw.ca>
> To: Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Reply-to: wgking at cips.ca
> Subject: [Nagios-users] re Nagios as a replacement for HP OpenView
> 

  .. snip ..


> Which brings up another point: templates. Other than ftp, scp, etc is
> there anything built in to nagios for the distribution of "templates"?
> 

This question has already been answered by the last reply to this matter
but to add 0.02 more.

No.

There is no equiv of the Tivoli framework to distribute 'agent code'.

All said and done, Nagios does not compare to the commercial products in
scalability.

To do so however would not in principal be too hard if you really want
distributed monitoring (ie agents on boxes); many people with large
installations (ie 1k <= large <= 10k) seem to get buy with passive
service checks ('logfile adapters') and one powerful Nagios poller.

If however, you wanted to put nsclient and or friends everywhere you
would need

. prebuilt binaries for your managed hosts on your code distribution
host

. a logical hash of managed node by binary name to send the binaries to
the correct locations.

. means to push the code out (scp, vpn tunnel or whatever).


Yours sincerely.

-- 
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Stanley Hopcroft
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'...No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the
continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a
manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes
me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know
for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee...'

from Meditation 17, J Donne.


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