Auto Discovery

Russell Adams RLAdams at AdamsInfoServ.Com
Thu Dec 29 23:37:57 CET 2005


Check out NACE. Its not blind autodiscovery, but rather a way to
detect and configure hosts via rules in a kind of query.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/nace/

Russell


On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 10:54:54AM -0800, Tedman Eng wrote:
> nmap2nagios is a script for generating template-based object configuration
> files from Nmap XML output.  http://sourceforge.net/projects/nmap2nagios/
> 
> 
> A word from my soap box though,
> 
> Nagios is very effective at monitoring known hosts/services.  If you know
> your business requirements, you should also be able to make a list of what's
> important to monitor, and build your config using your own list.
> 
> Autodiscovery will elighten you as to what's seen on your network that you
> didn't already know about, but the vast majority of the results returned
> would need to be weeded out as unimportant to monitor.  If it's a previously
> unknown host/service, you don't know yet whether you need to monitor it, and
> neither should nagios.  Running a tool like nmap on its own would suffice to
> find out what's out there that you didn't know about.
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeffry Bilder [mailto:JBilder at bacons.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 9:36 AM
> > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: [Nagios-users] Auto Discovery
> > 
> > 
> > Is there an auto-discovery function with Nagios yet? Or perhaps a
> > plugin?
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > -JB
> > 
> > 
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