SNMP agents versus Nagios agents

[MT Morales]

I totally agree with Jim on Nagios agents on servers, however you
still need to the depend on snmp agents for monitoring network devices,
as snmp seems to be the de facto protocol for management on most networking
equipment (switches, routers, bridges, etc). Fortunately, the Nagios server
can handle snmp traps/queries as well.
But ya, you'll depend on snmp agents to monitor other devices that are not
servers, and come with management support over IP.

-Tomas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Mozley" <jim.mozley at exponential-e.com>
To: "Larry Crowder" <CrowderLG at ldschurch.org>
Cc: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 12:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] SNMP agents versus Nagios agents


> Larry Crowder wrote:
>
> >Hello all,
> >
> >I am in the process of drafting a comparison memo for my work and would
like to ask if any out there either has done a similar evaluation, or can
refer me to some specific comparative  information about this.   The
comparison is between Nagios Agents and the SNMP agents of the Standard
MIB - specifically RFC 2790.  To me, comparisons would focus on usefullness
of data, difficulties of configuration, change management and security.
> >
> >
>
> The nagios agent will enable you to run any plugin and/or build your
> own, while using the MIB limits you to what is available from that MIB.
> For instance some of our mail servers run exim and I can check the queue
> on the remote server via nrpe using a plugin. This is not something
> that's available in the host MIB.
>
> Jim
>
>
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