Nagios replacing OpenView

[Mike McClure]

Alternatively, you can use an agent if one is available, such as NCSA or NSClient. 
That's important if you have a system that is missing good SNMP support.  It's also
usually simpler to encrypt and secure the agent communication than SNMP.

> On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Noah Leaman wrote:
>
>> my question: To produce alarms on, say high router CPU utilization, is
>> it just a matter of setting up a check_snmp command that collects the
>> SNMP OID for CPU%, or am I barking up the wrong tree here?
>
> Yes, that's exactly right.  By giving the check_snmp plugin the hostname,
> community string, OID, and the thresholds for WARNING and CRITICAL, you can
> get it to alarm on any information in your MIBs.
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