<html> <body> Hi all, Below is a message I received from Clearcentral Software - has anyone else received this (i.e. have they harvested email addx from nagios.org) or is this just me? I'll be sending them a strongly worded message and will be filtering messages from clearcentral.net to /tmp/spam I think... Greg <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>X-Mailer: Smartcode ObjectSet 1.0 From: "Tim Shouldice" <tim@clearcentral.net> Subject: Nagios and BMC Patrol - does your organization use both? Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 14:18:00 +0000 Organization: ClearCentral Software Inc. To: <g.vickers@qut.edu.au> Attention Nagios users: Many organizations perform server monitoring with BMC Patrol. However, many of the same organizations also use Nagios. Nagios provides a wide assortment of network service monitoring plug-ins such as SSH, Telnet, DNS, HTTP, FTP, NFS and countless others. BMC Patrol on the other hand includes none of these with the standard Unix or Windows Operating System knowledge modules. BMC clients can purchase the Internet Services Manager, an add-in tool to monitor web-related services. This add-in however is priced per server and per monitored server so it gets very expensive to monitor even a moderate number of servers. Both Patrols ISM and Nagios promote an architecture of remote monitoring of network services. Patrol promotes this due the high cost of the Internet Services Manager. Nagios promotes this because of its centralized architecture. Some Nagios users install Nagios and the full suite of plug-ins on each server and submit the results using passive checks, but this prevents any centralization of configuration. However, monitoring network services remotely is not an effective method. Disruptions to the network (which are very common) cause multiple false alerts. Busy networks cause intermittent false alerts. The proper solution is to perform service monitoring locally on each host. This can be done with Patrol. To monitor network services from BMC Patrol in a cost-effective manner, ClearCentral Software Inc. has released the Net Services Knowledge Module for Patrol. This knowledge module (KM) is sold on a site-license basis, enabling it to be installed on every server in a client's Patrol environment. Yet, as a Patrol knowledge module, it is still configured and viewed from the central Patrol Console. The KM uses the same plug-in architecture as Nagios and includes a custom check function where any user-written script or executable can be added into the Patrol environment. Many of the current Nagios plug-ins can be added with no modification. A 31-day evaluation copy of the knowledge module is available from ClearCentral's web site at <a href="http://www.clearcentral.net">www.clearcentral.net</a>. Use of the KM requires an existing Patrol installation of at least one console and one Patrol agent. Client's wishing a full evaluation kit including a printed copy of the manual can get one by emailing <a href="mailto:sales@clearcentral.net">sales@clearcentral.net</a>. Timothy Shouldice ClearCentral Software Inc. <a href="http://www.clearcentral.net">www.clearcentral.net</a> Specifications: Services Monitored: DNS FTP IMAP LDAP NEWS NFS PING POP SMTP SSH Telnet Websites SSL Websites Website Content checks User-defined TCP User-defined UDP User-defined RPC Custom Check (user supplied script) Supported Agent Platforms: Linux Solaris Windows NT and Windows 2000 HP-UX (other platform releases in progress, email a request for details) Supported Patrol Consoles Classic Windows Console Classic Unix Console Patrol Central Windows Console Patrol Central Web Console</blockquote> <x-sigsep></x-sigsep> ================================= Greg Vickers Computer Systems Officer Student Support and Systems, Teaching and Learning Support Systems, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove Campus, Brisbane, Australia CRICOS No 00213J Ph: 07 3864 8276 Fax: 07 3864 5425 Mob: 0416 001 674 SD: #66147</body> </html>