2009/3/24 Michael Schwartzkopff <mi...@multinet.de>: > Am Dienstag, 24. März 2009 10:45:08 schrieb Christopher McAtackney: >> Hi all, >> >> I was wondering if someone could give a brief overview of the pros / >> cons of using NRPE to monitor my remote hosts versus using the >> check_by_ssh command? >> >> I'm aware that check_by_ssh increases the CPU overhead, but I'm not >> clear on the level of impact here - does this increase the load on the >> monitoring machine in direction relation to the number of hosts being >> monitored? For example, if I was using check_by_ssh to monitor, say, >> 2000 services spread across 200 hosts, would I experience significant >> slowdown on my monitoring machine? >> >> Cheers for any info, >> >> Chris > > hi, > > ust SNMP! No need to install anything on the target system. SNMP Agents are > already installed on nearly all systems. > > Since everything speaks SNMP you can gather info about hardware, operation > system AND applications, independent of any OS. > > nagios: check_snmp > > Greetings, > > -- > Dr. Michael Schwartzkopff
This sounds interesting Michael. I searched around a bit, but wasn't able to find a good introduction to using check_snmp. Could you suggest an article / tutorial / blog entry somewhere that would be suitable for a Nagios newbie? Cheers, Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
