Nagios and Infrastructure automatization

[Paul Dubuc]

> On Sep 18, 2012, at 4:57 PM, Lukas Laukamp wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I am completely new to Nagios and I have a few questions about what is
>> possible with it. I first will describe my given infrastructure in which
>> I want to use Nagios and what exactly I want to do with Nagios in this
>> infrastructure.
>>
>> I have a few active KVM Hosts with much running VMs, in the past I and
>> other persons who have access to the infrastructure have done much tasks
>> manually but we no longer have that much time to do this further. So I
>> started to search for a solution for this problem. With Nagios I see a
>> good method to monitor the infrastructure but is it possible to solve the
>> primary problem of the automatization? So can I do things like automatic
>> system updates, see the update state of all KVM Hosts and VMs, perform
>> operations on different systems based on detailed selections and so on. I
>> looked at the feature list of Nagios but the most keyfeatures which are
>> described there are related to monitoring and it's not clear what Nagios
>> can to in automatization and other areas.
>>
>> If Nagios can't do this and someone know another good tool for
>> automatziation which work good together with Nagios, would it be greate
>> to adept more about it.
>>
>> I'm thankful about every tipp, idea and suggestion.
>>
>> Best Regards
>>
>> PS: Sorry for my bed english
>>
Daniel Wittenberg wrote:
 > Nagios isn't an automation tool, it's a monitoring tool.  It also doesn't
 > do authorization, that would be something like LDAP.  I think what might
 > help is to look at something like Puppet or Chef which can connect up with
 > Nagios but provide some more automation tools.
 >
 > Dan

Nagios can be used to automate tasks in response to problems using event 
handlers.  Whether this would meet Lucas' needs I don't know.

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/nagioscore/3/en/eventhandlers.html


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