Auto Discovery

[Tedman Eng]

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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