auto-detecting of new hosts, routers etc...

[Curt Shaffer]

On Sat, 2006-10-21 at 18:19 +0200, Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Oct 2006, root root wrote:
> 
> > Can Nagios gather information from my network automatically in order
> > to add it to hosts.cfg file by itself, not by nagios administrator?
> 
> No. There are tools to detect hosts and write updated config files out 
> there.
> 
> But someone installed equipment in your network and it must have passed a 
> couple of checks before you installed it. Right? Then what is the problem 
> of adding it to your config as part of these checks?
> 
> If someone installed something in your network without your knowledge then 
> why do you need to monitor it?
> 
> The only automatic tool I would use is one that triggers an alert if a new 
> device was added to the network. So you can go on a search and destroy 
> mission.
> 
> Hugo.
> 

I have used nmap to Nagios with some success. I have been thinking about
how to automate this but I keep seeing potential issues like rogue
devices or adding services that I don't care to monitor. Plus I just
don't like the idea of a program overwriting my configs without my
concent when it comes to this. I'm looking at modifying how it works to
be a bit more functional for this need. One thing that a lot of new
monitoring systems have is auto discovery and I think it will be a good
addition to Nagios to keep it as one of the best. It may work fine for
you so give it a look.

http://www.nagiosexchange.org/Configuration.40.0.html?&tx_netnagext_pi1[p_view]=147&tx_netnagext_pi1[page]=10%3A10

HTH

Curt


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