nagios friends/neighborhood

John A. Sullivan III jsullivan at opensourcedevel.com
Thu May 4 16:41:43 CEST 2006


On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 15:33 +0200, qstreb wrote:
> Hugo van der Kooij schrieb:
> > On Thu, 4 May 2006, qstreb wrote:
> > 
> >> the company i work for is facing the decision to leave the CA and
> >> implement Nagios & friends.
> >>
> >> The problem is we need ISIL comformance
> >> and for that we need software that play nice with nagios (plugins,
> >> central DB)
> >> RT would be nice for tracking, but Asset Management is a real pain in
> >> the a..
> > 
> > Frankly. This is where we leave Nagios behind. Nagios is part of the
> > solution and that is fine. But your question needs a carefull
> > investigation and goes miles beyond what nagios can do.
> > 
> > So I personally feel it is inappropriate to burden this list with such a
> > question.
> > 
> > Hugo.
> > 
> 
> Frankly, you are complete right, except that it is all about nagios
> 1.
> I will summurize:
> The point is we need a system:
> system=(monitoring+tickets+(asset-management+softwaredelivery/patching))
> 2.
> we want nagios monitoring
> we found RT as sufficient
> we need (asset-management+softwaredelivery/patching)
> 3.
> thats my question: what do you use, comform & easy to integrate with
> nagios & RT, not needed to be OpenSource (but no so costly as a CA),
> just good enough to be able to link it with the nagios objects and vs
> 4. case A:
> we dont have all the tools and visual repretesentation that our manager
> request:
> we are forced to use CA, and spent money and effort on the wrong place
> 4. case B:
> we have all the tools for the system:
> we engage a X company, that works in cooperation with nagios developers,
> we pay for nagios support, we contribute ideas, patches & experience to
> the nagios community
> 
> sincerely yours,
> qstreb
> 
> p.s. right now 3 of us are researching the missing part -
> (asset-management+softwaredelivery/patching)
> Windows2003, Solaris10-sparc/x86, linux - redhat/SuSE/Debian, *BSD
> 
<snip>
Please keep us apprised.  I am very interested to see where you come out
on this - John
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