<tt>Hi</tt> <tt>here some facts for the FCAPS</tt> <tt>fault mangement</tt> <tt>with nagios you can configure a very well fault mangement.</tt> <tt>you can do nothing as a reaction, or do mailings, or do handling for services.</tt> <tt>configuration management</tt> <tt>nagios does not support auto discover (don´t think this is supported)</tt> <tt>but it´s very easy to configure. There are different configuration tools, but for me it´s faster to do it manually.</tt> <tt>accounting</tt> <tt>is not realized in nagios</tt> <tt>performance</tt> <tt>you can use management tools for performance data using snmp traps.</tt> <tt>I wrote my own system to see grafics about normal unix shell commando results.</tt> <tt>security management</tt> <tt>not realized in nagios. I understanding under security management things, like control the security in the network.</tt> <tt>perhaps you can use some date </tt> <tt>greetings</tt> <tt>Markus</tt> <tt>> My organization is in the midst of a discussion over opennms / nagios > and how well do they comply with the FCAPS model of network > management. I am as usual rooting for nagios but still need to > understand how people are doing the following with nagios? > > discovery (snmp, jmx others?? preferably something automated) > configuration (cfengine suits best here, any other suggestions are > welcome) > performance (nagios does it natively and perfparse / others seem to > working towards it) > accounting > > What makes nagios really impressive is the fault management (and > correction to a certain extent) and distributed monitoring capabilities. > > Any suggestions are welcome. > > Regards, > Dhawal Doshy</tt>