Nagios and Bacula....

[Arno Lehmann]

Gerd,

I prefer my approach ;-)

... but I can even explain why, and perhaps that allows people to decide 
which approach they use.

1. Although snmp needs it's own security considerations, I prefer using 
it over ssh or the NSClient, because snmp is already part of (all) major 
OSes and needs no extra installation. Especially important if you're 
checking windows hosts that are operated by other people.

1.a) I don't have to install nagios' plug-ins on the hosts to monitor.

2. With snmp I can use the same check_commands for different OSes.

3. The passive check approach allows the freshness checking to be done 
by nagios itself, without need to access baculas catalog.

4. The perl script is, for my taste, too heavy in terms of dependencies 
and load. After all, everything it does can be done by a combination of 
bacula's director, some lines of shell code (which _could_ be 
transformed to C, but not by me :-) and nagios - all of this is already 
where I need it. Well, you should know that I never tried embedded perl 
in nagios.

Arno

Gerd Mueller wrote:

> Hi Chris,
> 
> search for nagios.txt inside the example folder of the bacula source :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Gerd
> 
> On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 11:50 +0100, Masopust Christian wrote:
> 
>>Hi all,
>>
>>has anybody already written a plugin to check the status of a 
>>Bacula (www.bacula.org) Backup-system?
>>
>>thanks, 
>>Chris
>>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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