On 27.07.2012 03:38, ant's wrote:
I'm pretty much confused with the functionality of both OSSEC and
Nagios. After reading certain blogs, I guess both are performing
similar kind of operation.
Are these tools are same ? Are there any differences between them?
OSSEC is to Nagios as to burglar alarm systems are to environmental
monitoring systems. They both report on events, but serve very different
purposes. OSSEC is a security tool designed to detect and prevent
information security breaches, while Nagios is a tool designed to
monitor the availability of systems. Availability does affect security,
so OSSEC does have some availability rules, but that's pretty much where
the similarities end.
