Performance

[Giorgio Zarrelli]

Snmp can be secured using version 3 feautures and narrowing down the  
ip range allowed to place an snmp poll.

Ciao,

Giorgio

Il giorno 15/mar/2010, alle ore 23.32, Jim Avery <jim at jimavery.me.uk>  
ha scritto:

> On 15 March 2010 22:02, Eduardo Barreto <lecb79 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi All, Could anybody tell me what's better, checking hosts through  
>> icmp
>> protocol or snmp? What are the risks or may set the network at all  
>> on a poor
>> status?
>
> In Nagios, you should check a host using ICMP (the Nagios host check
> is only to see if the host is alive).
>
> SNMP can be used for service checks in Nagios, but some people say
> that security is bad with SNMP.
>
> If your servers are not connected to the internet, SNMP is perhaps ok.
> I use SNMP to test disk space, users, cpu load and some other checks
> for some of my servers inside my network.
>
> I hope that helps.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jim
>
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