Question about Nagios Features

[Michael Friedrich]

On 28.10.2011 05:30, Mike Lindsey wrote:
> Short answer:  Yes.
>
> Medium answer: The free version can provide all of this, but it takes
> some work to get what you want.  The paid version will give you a lot
> more of this right out of the door.
>
> Long answer: Go to nagios.org, read the docs,

understand the docs!

> play with the demo,
> download the software.  Install it somewhere, play with it for a day.
> Then go hit Nagios Exchange and download some addons that fix whatever
> you think doesn't work quite the way you want.

don't do that. come up with a design and an idea of your environment 
including various use cases for various problems, some drawings and 
target answers on the real questions. the docs don't reflect all 
available addons which could possibly resolve the main questions, but 
users's experience will tell - if you ask straight ahead.

not with that list which sounds rather "catch them all" ...

>   It sounds like you're
> going to be monitoring a complex environment.  That means that your
> monitoring environment is going to be complex as well - at my work we
> monitor over a hundred discrete host profiles on a vast (though still
> incredibly small in comparison to some other installations) with some
> shared monitoring, but a lot of unique custom monitoring that performs
> deep application health checks on custom apps.
>
> You get what you put out.  In a large environment you can put out half a
> million dollars a year in licensing and support, and potentially
> millions in professional services dollars, getting something that you
> might not understand - tying you and your business to an external org
> through a hefty financial leash.  Alternately, you can download some
> free software (or pay an entirely reasonable sum for a better version
> and professional support) and put some effort into learning the tool,
> resulting in a monitoring environment that does everything you want it
> to, that you understand in and out, and hopefully the adoration of
> management -and- your operations teams.
>
> On 10/26/11 7:39 PM, Gian Karlo wrote:
>> Sorry it should be Nagios not OpenNMS. Anyway I would like to ask it
>> again if it is possible in Nagios. Thanks a lot.
>>
>> 1. Topology Based Navigation - Be able to navigate devices/elements as
>> based on the topology map created
>> 2. Automatic Device Discovery -    Be able to discover devices for
>> monitoring (requires enabling of SNMP)
>> 3. Detailed Historical Reports    - Be able to view historical reports
>> on devices and elements
>> 4. Fault Management and Network Availability Tools - Be able to
>> display alerts, provide audible alarms, suppress alarms, create alarms
>> as based on complex status and devices/element availability
>> 5. Network Performance Monitor - Be able to display information about
>> network devices/element health, utilization and status
>> 6. Syslog Viewer - Be able to accept and display system logs from
>> devices/elements
>> 7. SNMP Compatibility - Be able to verify compatibility with different
>> SNMP versions
>> 8. CPU, Memory&  Disk Space Monitoring - Be able to display
>> device/element information such as CPU, Memory and Disk Space Utilization
>> 9. Advance Reporting Engine - Be able to create custom reports as
>> based on required information
>> 10. Advance Alerting - Be able to create advance alerts as based on
>> complex combination of inputs and send these alerts via email or thru
>> audible alarms
>> 11. Incident Alerting - Be able to send an alert based on different
>> incidents experienced by the device/element
>> 12. Network Map Making -    Be able to create a map of the
>> devices/elements monitored
>> 13. Custom Property Editor - Be able to create a custom property to
>> interface, node or volume
>> 14. Custom HTML Resources - Be able to add resources to your HTML such
>> as link or text
>> 15. Custom MIB Support -    Be able to view other statistics as based
>> on customized MIB pollers
>> 16. Role-based Access Control - Be able to create different users with
>> different access to NPM resources
>> 17. Customizable and Flexible Web Console - Be able to customize web
>> console as based on customer requirement
>> 18. Customizable Web Views - Be able to customize web views as based
>> on customer requirement
>> 19. Enterprise Scalability -Be able to provide scalability options to
>> sustain network growth
>> 20. Open Architecture - Be able to integrate with Open Architecture
>> database SQL
>> 21. Unified Monitoring Console - Be able to unify application
>> performance information with other NPM information on the console
>> 22. Advance Server Monitoring - Be able to monitor Windows, Unix and
>> Linux servers key performance statistics
>> 23. Services and Port Monitoring - Be able to monitor applications
>> running on servers as based on services and ports used
>> 24. User Experience Monitoring - Be able to provide user experience
>> information on web-based applications
>> 25. Application Templates - Be able to provide application monitoring
>> information as based on included application templates
>> 26. Out-of-the-box Reporting - Be able to display reports using out of
>> the box reporting templates
>> 27. Advance Application Alerting - Be able to create alerts on complex
>> combinations of events
>> 28. Top-to-bottom Analysis - Be able to provide analysis on traffic
>> flow as based on NetFlow, SFlow and/or JFlow
>> 29. Netflow, SFlow, JFlow Support - Be able to support
>> devices/elements running IP Flows and display statistics as based on
>> information
>> 30. Netflow Reporting - Be able to provide Flow reports
>> 31. Application Traffic Information - Be able to provide statistics as
>> based on application traffic information
>> 32. Demographics - Be able to provide information on top users and top
>> applications
>> 33. VoIP QoS Measurement - Be able to provide statistics as based on
>> VoIP QoS measured values
>> 34. Alerts, Grahps and Reporting - Be able to provide alerts, graphs
>> and reports as based on statistics gathered
>> 35. VoIP Infrastructure Monitoring - Be able to monitor VoIP network
>> infrastructure and provide information on network health for support
>> of VoIP service
>>
>


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