Questions for research

[Arno Lehmann]

Hello,

On 20.09.2005 08:35, CC Yuen wrote:
> Dear all expert,
> 
> I am doing research for my company for nagios, some questions that I
> can't find on the webpage, hope can get help in here, thanks a lot!!!

After reading through your questions, I'd suggest you take a closer look
to the web page. The manual explains (almost) all the things you want to
know.

> 1. Does it only support SNMP for the monitoring method? Or I can setup
> a monitor method by other ways (e.g. TCP based -- manual assign a port
> number, or ICMP function e.g. send hello message to some service)

Yes.


> 2. Does it has any functions that designed for IDS machine?

You can do that, but you'll probably have to create your plugins
yourself or tell the list which IDS you use - perhaps someone has a
similar setup.

> 3. Can I fully access it (admin, view report... etc) by web page? How
> about if I want to access through https?

You do many administrative tasks through the web fron-end, and depending
on your web server setup you can access it through https.

> 4. Does anyone use it to monitor some IP based device (not a server or
> service, e.g. a KVM device which has an IP number)

Quite definitely, though not me.

> 5. How about the report? Can I have a real time report for all
> monitors? Can I assign time/dat/week/month based to get the historical
> report? And can I set a schedule to auto gen a historical report?

Yes, but no automatically generated historical reports without some
effort, I think.

> 6. Besides general alert functions (email, sound and popup message), I
> saw it can support SMS, pager and IM to send alert. Do I need to
> install some additional stuffs (something like API) if I want the SMS
> and pager alert? if not, how to do that?

You need to have additional stuff for about everything nagios actually
does - checks and notifications are usually plugins, or, in other words,
external programs.

> 7. Can I create different user which has different access rights to
> access Nagios?

Yes.

> 8. If I want to export the report, what kind of file format can be export?

That depends on the version you want to use, I believe. Of course, you
can also process the log files yourself. Or, attach nagios to a database.

> 
> These questions really really make me cross, hope some expect can give
> me help~~


As I said above, your best solution would be to read the manual.

Arno

> Thanks
> Chung
> 
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