NRPE vs. check_by_ssh
Michael Schwartzkopff
misch at multinet.de
Tue Mar 24 10:57:21 CET 2009
Am Dienstag, 24. März 2009 10:45:08 schrieb Christopher McAtackney:
> Hi all,
>
> I was wondering if someone could give a brief overview of the pros /
> cons of using NRPE to monitor my remote hosts versus using the
> check_by_ssh command?
>
> I'm aware that check_by_ssh increases the CPU overhead, but I'm not
> clear on the level of impact here - does this increase the load on the
> monitoring machine in direction relation to the number of hosts being
> monitored? For example, if I was using check_by_ssh to monitor, say,
> 2000 services spread across 200 hosts, would I experience significant
> slowdown on my monitoring machine?
>
> Cheers for any info,
>
> Chris
hi,
ust SNMP! No need to install anything on the target system. SNMP Agents are
already installed on nearly all systems.
Since everything speaks SNMP you can gather info about hardware, operation
system AND applications, independent of any OS.
nagios: check_snmp
Greetings,
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