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<DIV><SPAN class=843401416-27032003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><A
href="http://nagmin.sourceforge.net">http://nagmin.sourceforge.net</A> -
Explains briefly what NagMIN does.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=843401416-27032003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>If you
download the tarball the db structure is in nagmin_init.sql. NagMIN
only uses MySQL.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=843401416-27032003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>NagMIN
has it's own way of doing things or, I guess, my way of doing
things.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=843401416-27032003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>As a
result, it's not going to be for everyone and is not intended to be.
</FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=843401416-27032003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>It adds fields and tables that aren't part of Nagios.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=843401416-27032003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>However, it's saving me a ton of time with configuration and is going to
be expanded to monitor large scale networks using NMAP to learn the
network. I wanted to share it.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<P><FONT face="Century Schoolbook"
size=2>-------------------------------------------------</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Century Schoolbook" size=2>Fred Reimers (CCIE #1469, CCSA)</FONT>
<BR><FONT face="Century Schoolbook" size=2>Senior Network Consultant</FONT>
<BR><FONT face="Century Schoolbook" size=2>Info Systems, Inc.</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Century Schoolbook" size=2>freimers@infosysinc.com</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Century Schoolbook" size=2>(302)993-4532</FONT> </P>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Russell Scibetti
[mailto:russell@quadrix.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, March 27, 2003 10:28
AM<BR><B>To:</B> Fred Reimers<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Nagios-users] NagMIN -
"non-standard" directory support<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>Does NagMIN use a DB
backend to store configs or does it just use file editing for making config
changes?<BR><BR>If it does use a DB, can you shard the structure of the DB?
I've written a fully relational database for Nagios Configs that is very
robust and handles every inter-object relation that Nagios
offers.<BR><BR>Russell<BR><BR>Fred Reimers wrote:<BR>
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<DIV><SPAN class=465233014-27032003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I
received a response from someone who has a "non-standard" Nagios directory
structure and was not so complimentary with his comment regarding
NagMIN.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=465233014-27032003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>My
response would be: #1 - why wouldn't you use the standard directory
structure in the first place? and, #2 what is it?, a small detail
that the gentleman left out, so that I can accommodate it?
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<DIV><SPAN class=465233014-27032003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>It
should be a rather easy task to add a couple more prompts to ask
for your nagios.cfg and cgi.cfg files. I'm trying to make this as
simple as possible.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=465233014-27032003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Fred </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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Russell Scibetti
Quadrix Solutions, Inc.
<A class=moz-txt-link-freetext href="http://www.quadrix.com">http://www.quadrix.com</A>
(732) 235-2335, ext. 7038
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