well, SNMP is a proper Nagios client.
With rocommunity and firewall rules, security isn't a big deal.
I'm using SNMP to actively issue checks when passive transport get stalled.
It tries to send the passive result, expecting good return code from
send_nsca (and could check for cron, try to determine if server is
thrashing, and so on), or, sends back to snmpget the result.
Cheers,
Marcel
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 3:56 AM, Giorgio Zarrelli <zarre...@linux.it> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If you just want to check if a host is alive, icmp is the protocol
> that's always been used for this purpose.
>
> I use snmp mostly for appliances, eg. Routers, firewall and switches,
> wherr I can't install a proper Nagios client to rely on.
>
> Ciao,
>
> Giorgio
>
> Il giorno 15/mar/2010, alle ore 23.02, Eduardo Barreto
> <lec...@gmail.com> ha scritto:
>
> > Hi All, Could anybody tell me what's better, checking hosts through
> > icmp protocol or snmp? What are the risks or may set the network at
> > all on a poor status?
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Eduardo Barreto
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