Am Mittwoch, 2. Juli 2008 11:54 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > -----Original Message----- (...) > > Am Mittwoch, 2. Juli 2008 07:51 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > (...) [Long discussion, shortened to save bandwidth] > > > > Why do you folks do not use plain SNMP? heartbeat has a > > wonderful subagent! > > SNMP is internet standard (RFC), everywhere implemented and platform > > independend! Contrary to your own nagios installation. > > The catch here is that this HB cluster offers webservices to the WWW > and thus resides in our perimeter DMZ. > I really can't imagine that our firewall folks would hapilly open ports for > SNMP to pass to my monitoring manager, especially as SNMP (despite how > unfounded this prejudice may be for V3) has a pretty bad repution among fw > admins. > > Also, even if I could persuade them I would be required to rig up an snmpd > agent to pass caught traps to my Nagios server (though this might not be > too dificult if I used the free and well documented net-snmp suite, but in > any way would mean more extra work than a wee quickly written custom Nagios > plugin for this simple purpose)
I am a firewall admin and have no problems with SNMP, even SNMPv1. net-snmp has a nice ACL model. So can let only the manager (nagios) queuery the machine. then you still can use "public" as the community string. nagios has the native plugin check_snmp. So your nagios can check your cluster for the health every 5 mins. No traps needed. Setup time for nagios/SNMP: About 10 mins. And it's really working afterwards. How much work is writing and testing your own nagios agent? -- Dr. Michael Schwartzkopff MultiNET Services GmbH Addresse: Bretonischer Ring 7; 85630 Grasbrunn; Germany Tel: +49 - 89 - 45 69 11 0 Fax: +49 - 89 - 45 69 11 21 mob: +49 - 174 - 343 28 75 mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.multinet.de Sitz der Gesellschaft: 85630 Grasbrunn Registergericht: Amtsgericht München HRB 114375 Geschäftsführer: Günter Jurgeneit, Hubert Martens --- PGP Fingerprint: F919 3919 FF12 ED5A 2801 DEA6 AA77 57A4 EDD8 979B Skype: misch42 _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
