> Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Nagios do a seperate SNMP query for > every check. This could potentially increase the amount of SNMP traffic if a > host has a lot of metrics; and most will. Still, something that ties Nagios > and Cacti together seems like a promising approach. > > Interestingly, Zabbix seems to be the only one with a FreeBSD port.
Nagios has a FreeBSD port, but you probably already knew that. Check out the NRPE add-on for Nagios -- anything the machine being queried can ask itself can be reported back through NRPE. The plugin connects to the machine being monitored, the NRPE daemon executes the requested command, and the plugin delivers the response back to the monitoring server. You can also roll your own scripts -- see http://www.nagiosexchange.org for examples. I've used NRPE in lieu of remote SNMP queries in the past for *nix servers. If you add on nagiosgraph or nagiosstat, you can get metrics. M _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
