Monitoring Disk and CPU Utilization

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Platt, Nicholas wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I've just installed Nagios and I am very please with the product.  I'm not a
> Linux guy, but the instructions have been so good that it has been an easy
> experience.  Good work!  I've been able to populate the NMS with 500+ host
> and monitor over 1000+ services.   I plan to grow it.   I've been asked to
> monitor host CPU and host disk usage.    I've read that there is two ways
> monitor this function.  One is installing a client on each server and the
> other is SNMP.   Since our shop has several types of boxes and OS, for us it
> is better to poll the box via SNMP.  I've not been able to find detailed
> documentation on how to have Nagios poll via SNMP for disk usage.  Now, when
> I say documentation, I have found a check_snmp plug-in, but did not have
> enough documentation for a beginner to be able to utilize it.    Can you
> point me to any check_snmp documentation that will clearly describe how I
> can poll servers via SNMP?    If believe the client version is better, will
> it support Unix, Linux, Novell, and NT?  You guys have always been very
> supportive.  Thank you.


Unix agent: 
NRPE + any plugin
ssh + any plugin

Windows agents: 
NSclient - fixed set of probes
NREP_NT + external plugins

Novell:
MRTGEXT.NLM - fixed set of probes


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-sg



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