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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