2009/3/6 Kyle Schmitt <[email protected]> > > I was looking at getting some sort of company-wide monitoring software > (possibly with some level of system control). Most things I've come > across are using some mix of SNMP & custom agents loaded on each and > every system. If you pare it all down, it seems that nagios, zenoss > and anything else worth mentioning, are pretty faces on a mix of SNMP > and little agents. > > With that in mind, is SNMP worth the trouble as a protocol? Forget > which pretty face it wears. I've always shied away from SNMP (with > small number of servers it didn't make sense), so I've got no > practical experience with it. > > Is it too much of a hassle for the risk? Are the rewards of using it > that great?
IMHO, SNMPv3 is quite secure and if you want that fancy graphs from data it can get, it is worth the hassle. > > > It seems that two weeks can't go without reading about an SNMP > vulnerability, but at the same time, many packages, and IT > departments, rely on it, even if they don't know it. > > > Thanks for any advice, > --Kyle > > PS: Yes I have some monitoring system in place now: it's a mix of home > grown agents and syslog. > > > > -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http://gameornot.net --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
