nagios usage/question...

[bruce]

hi...

i'm starting to evaluate various monitoring apps for a possible project.
nagios appears to be overkill in some areas, deficient in others for my
projected needs. i'm curious, how easy is it to add functionality (ie
plugins) to the nagios infrastructure? in other words, is it possible/easy
to create perl scripts that might communicate with a client script/app on a
client machine, and suck the results into nagios for display.

some of my initial needs are:
- linux/apache monitoring server
- monitor linux client servers
- monitor linux client apps
- ability to add/remove monitoring scripts/functions
- hopefully perl based
- ability to detect status of client server/processes
- ability to derive status of inter-client communication
  (not just client-server, but client-client as well)
- ability to perform remote admin of some client apps
- some level of alert functionality
- ability to add additional client monitoring scripts/functionality
- user based permission strategy for conducting monitoring
  functions. (ie allow certain users, to perform certain functions...)

comments/criticisms/welcome....

thanks

-bruce




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